February 22/March 1, 2021, Issue

Feature

Mapping the Trump Meridian in Texas

Just five years after calling Mexican immigrants drug dealers, criminals, and rapists, Trump collected over 30 percent of the vote in every Texas county along the border.
Jaime Garcia and Rick Treviño
The Case for Blue-State Secession

It’s the only way to ensure democracy and equal justice, not just for blue-state residents but for citizens in all 50 states.
Nathan Newman
First, Nurses Saved Our Lives—Now They’re Saving Our Health Care

Throughout the pandemic, nurses have been at the forefront of the fight not only to treat the sick but also to fix our ailing medical system.
Sarah Jaffe
Democrats Have Inherited a Broken Senate. Can They Make It Work?

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has his work cut out for him. Here are four ways he could make the Senate work.
John Nichols

Editorial

If Senators Won’t Kill the Filibuster, They Should at Least Sweat for It

The current version of the filibuster demands nothing of senators other than the desire to gum up democracy. That has to change.
Elie Mystal for The Nation
Even in Death, Sheldon Adelson Will Keep Undermining Democracy

Wherever the casino magnate went, corruption—be it moral, legal, political, or cultural—was never far behind.
Eric Alterman
President Biden Is Our Chance to End the Federal Death Penalty

Trump’s execution spree laid bare some of the death penalty’s fundamental flaws.
Sister Helen Prejean
The Socialist Glossy That Wants You to Have It All

The founders of Lux magazine say there’s something radical in the strategic pursuit of pleasure.
Emily Douglas
Democrats Need to Make Good on Their Promises

Improving people’s financial well-being is good politics.
Bryce Covert
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Column

46 and Done: Why Joe Biden Should Be Our Last President

Parliamentary democracies give their citizens tuition-free college, state-subsidized child care, generous paid leave, socialized medicine. We get “Hail to the Chief.”
Alexis Grenell
Republicans Have the Biden Presidency Caught in a Unity Trap

While fake unity just means doing whatever Republicans want, authentic unity requires marginalizing the promoters of lies and racism in the interest of creating a more genuinely equal society.
Jeet Heer
Exit Trump, Sort Of

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Kali Uchis’s Fearless Latinx Pop

The bilingual, bicultural songs and sounds of Sin Miedo is a daring leap forward.
Julyssa Lopez
Can the Novel Document the Present in Real Time?

Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet is an experiment in novel writing that closely tracks and analyzes the news as it happens.
Rumaan Alam
Mike Davis’s Forecast for the Left

His works of history and social criticism have grappled with the political and ecological disasters of the past. His work has now started to become more hopeful about the future.
Micah Uetricht
Provenance

Paul Tran
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