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Feature
When Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank Came Out
An excerpt from Smahtguy, a graphic biography.
Eric Orner
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The Fierce Hope of Ana María Archila
The Brooklyn-based organizer is running for New York lieutenant governor, but is the left ready to compete statewide?
Liza Featherstone
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How Gayness Changed During My Lifetime
When I came out, I steeled myself to join a minority—only to find that my identity had become a marketing niche.
Benjamin Moser
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Editorial
Why the Left Should Pay Attention to Ana María Archila
The activist’s record at Make the Road New York, one of the most effective immigrant rights groups, has earned her run for New York lieutenant governor a close look.
D.D. Guttenplan
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We Shouldn’t Destroy What Is Working in Our Economy
As policy-makers move to drive inflation down, it is essential that they don’t lose sight of the economy’s bright spots.
Mike Konczal
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Progressives Call on Voters to Stop Sending Millionaires to the Senate
It’s the Democrats’ best hope in a midterm election year characterized by economic volatility and high inflation, says Senate hopeful Mandela Barnes.
John Nichols
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The Real Reason to Be Nervous About AI
Declarations of sentience are wildly premature. But the dangers AI poses to labor are very real.
Dwayne Monroe
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To Avert January 6, We Needed Whistleblowers—and We Never Got Them
The Trump and Pence staffers testifying now batted down Trump’s election lies—but they never went public with the threat he posed.
Joan Walsh for The Nation
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Column
Why the January 6 Hearings Are a Trap
It’s absurd to try to hold GOP accountable while conspicuously reaching across the aisle.
Jeet Heer
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It Should Become Standard for Women to Freeze Their Eggs
Along with IVF, it’s a revolutionary procedure that allows women to control their own destiny. No wonder the right hates it.
Alexis Grenell
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Books & the Arts
The Brutal Verisimilitude of “The Northman”
Robert Eggers’s latest work, a Viking epic, pushes his obsessive and detail-oriented filmmaking to its limit.
Erin Schwartz
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The Reflections of Kendrick Lamar
His intimate new album Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers lifts a mirror to his listeners.
Joshua Bennett
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Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick”
Pierre Senges’s avant-garde retelling of Melville’s great work asks us what the limits of the novel are.
Ryan Ruby
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Fernanda Melchor’s Dark Morality Plays
In her third novel, Melchor turns her allegorical powers in an even more explicitly political direction.
Nicolás Medina Mora
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Back Page
How to Fight Decades of Environmental Racism
The NRDC’s new head of justice and equity talks about what environmental justice means, and how community power-building is essential to that work.
Danielle Renwick
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Letters
Letters From the July 11/18, 2022, Issue
Not just a women’s issue… How we win… Collective power…
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