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Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth…

About France’s republican racism.

Gary Younge

Europe’s War on Woke

Why elites across the Atlantic are freaking out about the concept of structural racism.

James McAuley

Brittany Ramos DeBarros Took On the War Machine. Now She’s Running for Congress.

Can an anti-war ex–Army officer defeat a centrist Dem and a Trumpian Republican in New York City’s most conservative district?

Liza Featherstone

Paperwork Keeps People Poor

It would be a huge mistake for Democrats to embrace harsh work requirements once again.

Bryce Covert

For Once, Hats Off to “The New York Times”

The paper of record may be guilty of milquetoast politics, but credit is due for its brave exposure of a US war crime.

D.D. Guttenplan

At COP 26, A Bigger, Stronger Climate Movement Made Its Mark

The new focus on equity in the climate movement will keep the pressure where it belongs: on the Global North.

Tina Gerhardt for The Nation

Kyle Rittenhouse Has Gotten Away With Murder—as Predicted

Rittenhouse’s acquittal is not a “miscarriage” of justice, as some might claim. It is our white justice system working as intended.

Elie Mystal for The Nation

The Republicans Have Become the Party of Organized Violence

Right now, the GOP views threats of violence as offering a political advantage with no real downside. Normalization of this behavior by President Biden or the media will only make it worse.

Jeet Heer

Women Are Changing the Look of Leadership

Our visual understanding of power has always been male-coded.

Alexis Grenell

Hero as Intern

Calvin Trillin

John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience

With its doctrine of fairness, A Theory of Justice transformed political philosophy. But what did it leave out? 

Olúfémi O. Táíwò

Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation

In her new novel, Jones offers a story of slavery and freedom in the Americas.

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure

Cohn shows how repeated failures by Democrats and Republicans to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the strategy that produced the Affordable Care Act.

Ryan Cooper

Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune”

His adaptation was the first to understand the scale—both intimate and epic—the sci-fi novel required to translate to film.

Erin Schwartz

Fly, Pelican, Fly

Jim Moore