December 27, 2021/January 3, 2022, Issue

Feature

Can Farm Collectives Challenge Big Ag?

The pandemic gave co-ops, food hubs, and community agriculture a boost, but keeping the momentum going will require help from policy-makers.
Dean Kuipers
How the Taxi Workers Won

The 45 days of fierce protest, shrewd organizing, and ferocious solidarity that ended the debt nightmare that had engulfed the taxi industry.
Molly Crabapple
Ping!! How Those Trump/Russia Stories Got Shopped to the Media

Thanks to recent indictments and ongoing lawsuits about an alleged Trump computer back channel to Moscow, we can now see just how journalists got played—and who played them.
Barry Meier

Editorial

What Should the Democrats Do About Rising Inflation?

Doug Henwood argues that without raising taxes, many leftist policies will come with risks, while Lauren Melodia writes that the GOP is exaggerating inflation concerns.
Doug Henwood and Lauren Melodia
The Finger Lakes Are Being Poisoned

The birthplace of American feminism is being buried under a mountain of garbage.
Susan Brind Morrow
Travel Bans and Boosters Alone Won’t Protect Us From Covid

The fantasy that we can erect a Fortress America and leave the rest of the world to fend for itself is a deadly delusion.
Gregg Gonsalves
What Will It Take to Build a Mass Movement for Abortion Rights?

It’s time to turn a committed core of supporters into a force capable of reclaiming what has been lost.
Amy Littlefield for The Nation
Judy Collins Remembers Stephen Sondheim

The singer and activist writes about discovering the “amazing, creative, thunderous force” of Sondheim’s music.
Judy Collins
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Column

Holiday Giving: Second Pandemic Winter Edition

Republicans are on the move, and so are Covid and climate change—give now, before things get even worse!
Katha Pollitt
Senator Hawley Touts Masculinity

Calvin Trillin
A Cop Is Finally in Trouble for Using Excessive Force—Against Dogs

Why can’t we expect at least this much from the courts when it comes to Black people?
Elie Mystal

Books & the Arts

The Making of Tom Stoppard

How mistaken identity and acts of reinvention define the life and work of the British playwright.
Hannah Gold
What Is the Relationship Between Democracy and Authoritarianism?

The Age of Revolution inaugurate a new era in modern history defined not only by new democratic institutions but also by despots and charismatic leaders.
Tyler Stovall
“Succession”’s Repetition Compulsion

In Succession’s moral universe, no one can ever get what they want or what they deserve.
Sam Adler-Bell
The Board Meeting

Heather Christle
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