June 17-24, 2019, Issue
-
Feature
In the Heart of Real-Estate Power, a Housing Movement Nears Victory
As tenants organize, New York could become one of the first states to pass “universal rent control.”
Jimmy Tobias
-
Force-Feeding Is Cruel, Painful, and Degrading—and American Prisons Won’t Stop
In a Colorado supermax facility, hunger-striking inmates have been force-fed and barred from sharing their ordeal with the outside world. A prisoner breaks his silence for the first time.
Aviva Stahl
-
Editorial
Trump’s Plan to Deny Benefits: Pretend People Aren’t Poor
By redefining poverty, millions fewer people would be able to take advantage of lifesaving programs.
Bryce Covert
-
-
-
Bernie’s Plan to Save Public Schools
Sanders has the most progressive education platform in modern American history.
Nikhil Goyal
-
Subscribe Today and Save $129!
-
Column
How Bad Can Brexit Get?
Theresa May is out, but the crisis that made her premiership both possible and untenable has intensified.
Gary Younge
-
A Man’s Guide to Abortion
You don’t have to be a woman to stand up for reproductive rights.
Katha Pollitt
-
-
Books & the Arts
The Tangled History of American and Israeli Exceptionalism
Amy Kaplan’s new book examines the pioneering cultural myths that have tied Israel and the United States together.
Rashid Khalidi
-
-
There’s No Band Quite Like Big Thief
Wrapped into their new album U.F.O.F.’s delicate folds are fragility and resilience, love and trauma, nature and ether, enclosure and space, light and dark.
Olivia Horn
-
Halle Butler’s Millennial Workplace Novel Has All the Precarity and None of the Pathos
The New Me and other recent novels use millennial tropes as shortcuts to generational fatigue.
Katie Bloom
-
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.
