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January 25/February 1, 2021, Issue
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Feature
The Nation ’s annual honor roll recognizes progressive activists and leaders who helped keep hope alive and set the groundwork for transformational change in 2021.
What happens when too many people don’t care about saving lives.
The breakdown of the neoliberal consensus creates an opening for a more progressive China policy—while also increasing the danger of war.
For months, our leaders have known that the Covid-19 crisis could force millions of people from their homes. They decided to let it happen.
Editorial
We have turned a page in our nation’s history—not because the insiders wanted it, but because the people fought for it.
There is nothing more fascist-like than Trump telling the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”
The same system that often rendered Trump harmless fails most Americans.
He should take a cue from Trump and use the presidency as a bully pulpit for the Postal Service.
Reading revives historical memory in the flat Zoom time of pandemic.
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Column
The incoming president said Black Lives Matter. Now it’s time for him to prove he means it.
When money is tight and time is tighter, the basic structure of male supremacy shows itself to be remarkably intact.
Books & the Arts
Oneohtrix Point Never’s latest album is not unlike a radio broadcast from another reality.
Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff’s Voices From the Valley examines how the tech world has redefined our understanding work.
In her new book, Applebaum attempts to understand why some of her intellectual bedfellows moved to the far right.
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Back Page
Lizz Winstead says, “If you can still laugh, you haven’t lost your capacity for hope.”
Letters
Better to tax… Nuclear options… Power gridlock… An ailing system… The progressive future…