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June 14/21, 2021, Issue

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Editorial

Democrats Should Just Create More Federal Holidays

Arguing that Americans work too much is a winning political message.

Ed Burmila

A Letter to Biden From Jimmy Carter’s Biographer

Sometimes doing the right thing means not getting reelected.

Kai Bird

The Legacy of Radical Lawyer Michael Ratner

His posthumous memoir, just released, is a powerful account of holding the powerful to account.

David Cole

The Nakba Is Now

With the explosion of Israeli violence this last week, Palestinians are experiencing a level of terror that is both new and painfully reminiscent of the terror of 1948.

Saree Makdisi for The Nation

Column

In California, a Case of Black Land Loss Is Finally Being Made Right

Charles and Willa Bruce, Black landowners in Manhattan Beach, lost their land to eminent domain in 1924. Nearly 100 years later, it’s being returned to their living descendants.

Kali Holloway

When Sensitivity Becomes Censorship

A restrictionist mentality is taking over certain segments of the left.

David Bromwich

Obeisance

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letters From the June 14/21, 2021, Issue

You don’t say… Facts and fairness… World citizens… The revolutionary spirit… A survivor speaks (web only)…

Our Readers and Katha Pollitt

Feature

It’s Time for Stephen Breyer to Retire From the Supreme Court

The associate justice has served admirably on the Court for 27 years. But for the sake of our basic rights, he’s got to step down at the end of this term.

Elie Mystal