January 27, 2020, Issue

Cover art by: Hector Retamal / AFP via Getty Images (photo)

Feature

Haiti Is in the Eye of the Storm

Despite the current respite from months of protests and government violence, the country’s rampant corruption threatens to unleash chaos once more.
Amy Wilentz
How Rising Temperatures Increase the Likelihood of Nuclear War

As climate changes stresses our human institutions, we are likely to face deadly conflicts over critical resources.
Michael T. Klare
One Uighur Man’s Circuitous Journey to Safety

After leaving his home in China’s Xinjiang province, Ablikim Yusuf navigated a world hostile to his people before finding refuge in the United States.
Andrew McCormick

Editorial

A New Mom Asks, ‘When Does It Get Better?’

Another reader inquires about WhatsApp etiquette.
Liza Featherstone
Australia’s Decade of Burning Environmental Apathy

The country is paying a deadly price for its conservative politicians’ climate denialism.
Edward Cavanough
Comix Nation

Peter Kuper
Stop This War

We are not on the brink of war; we are already at war. What matters now is ending it—as quickly as possible.
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Books & the Arts

Opinion

Jennifer Militello
The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez

His fiction and nonfiction can be seen as facets of a single, lifelong narrative enterprise.
Tony Wood
Formalwear

Devon Walker-Figueroa
Every Generation Gets Its Own ‘Little Women’

Greta Gerwig’s adaptation faces two challenges: to be a good film and to mark how we can imagine women—as sisters, as antagonists, as wives, as workers—in our own time.
Erin Schwartz
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