August 26-September 2, 2019, Issue

Cover art by: Reuters / Jaime Saldarriaga (photo)

Feature

The American Workplace Still Won’t Accommodate Pregnant Workers

Pregnant women face discrimination up and down the economic ladder—but low-wage workers suffer the most.
Bryce Covert
The Broken Promise of Colombia’s Peace Deal

Will President Iván Duque reignite his country’s 50-year-long civil war?
Jonathan Levi and Marta Orrantia

Editorial

Brianna Wu Is Used to Fighting Bullies

The Gamergate veteran tells The Nation why she’s challenging a Democratic incumbent in the Massachusetts congressional primary.
John Nichols
The Democratic Debates Don’t Need to Be This Awful

Progressive Democrats can and should demand deeper and sharper lines of questioning and more diverse moderators.
John Nichols
After the El Paso Massacre, the Choice Is Green Socialism or Eco-Fascism

The alleged shooter mixes standard Trumpian racism with Malthusian fascism.
Jeet Heer
Why Americans Should Support BDS

Inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, it calls for Palestinian liberation on terms of full equality with Israelis and categorically opposes all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism.
Omar Barghouti
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Column

Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze

Epstein’s scientist “friends” should have known better than to associate with a crackpot transhumanist.
Katha Pollitt
John Ratcliffe as a Director of National Intelligence Nominee

Calvin Trillin
Boris Johnson Interviewed Me for His Column. Here’s What Didn’t Make It Into Print.

On Brexit, race, and criminal justice, Britain’s new prime minister has always played both sides for maximum expediency.
Patricia J. Williams

Books & the Arts

The Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The Supreme Court justice may have been heralded by many of his progressive peers, but the legacy he left behind is far more ambiguous.
Brenda Wineapple
Richard Holbrooke and the Lost Idealism of a Generation

Holbrooke’s public and personal life captures the contradictions of a cohort of liberals that came of age in the 1960s.
David Klion
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Long Arc of Reconstruction

In his new book, Gates argues that the history of American democracy has always been one of constant push and pull.
Robert Greene II
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