March 6/13, 2023, Issue

Cover art by: Adrià Fruitós

Feature

Dirty Nickel, Clean Power: Making the Ocean Bleed Red

How the race for more efficient batteries is poisoning Indonesia’s coastal waters.
Nicolas Niarchos
Bernie Sanders: Anti-Union Capitalism Is Wrecking America

Workers deserve a better deal than the unfettered capitalism that is destroying our health, our democracy, and our planet.
Sen. Bernie Sanders with John Nichols
Jackson’s Water System Is Broken by Design

Declining federal funding has left the water infrastructure in Mississippi’s capital at the mercy of conservative state politicians.
Hadas Thier

Editorial

The Tradeoffs in the Fight Against Inflation

Living with inflation of a little over 2 percent for a short period would be worth it to keep the gains in the economy.
Mike Konczal
Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor.

Public health requires seeing the world from a collective perspective, but US agencies are still dominated by doctors trained to work on an individual level.
Eric Reinhart
To Save Ukraine, End the War

With the fighting poised to take an ominous turn, now is the time to push for a cease-fire.
The Nation
Congress Shouldn’t Clap for Tyre Nichols’s Parents—They Should Apologize

Many of the people rising for Nichols’s parents during the State of the Union didn’t do enough to prevent his death—and quite a few did worse than that.
Elie Mystal
Bruce Springsteen and These Lost Years

After Covid, he and the E Street Band are celebrating, but also continuing their mourning tour. It won’t end. Until it does.
Joan Walsh
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Column

When Black Women Are Punished for Winning Too Much

Every time we get an unvarnished look-see at how the awards sausages get made, voters unwittingly confirm that racism and misogyny are key ingredients.
Kali Holloway
Race and Class: The Beginnings of an Argument

Some personal and theoretical reflections on intersectionality and its discontents.
Adolph Reed Jr.
Leadership, Kevin McCarthy–Style

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Janet Malcolm, Reluctant Memoirist

Why was one of the most gifted nonfiction writers of her generation so uncomfortable writing about herself?
Vivian Gornick
Why the United States Needs a New Reconstruction

In The Third Reconstruction, historian Peniel Joseph examines how how the broken promises of racial equality in the past might be fulfilled in the future.
Robert Greene II
Is This the End of Literary Studies?

John Guillory’s Professing Criticism offers a sobering look at the uncertain future of criticism inside and outside the academy.
Nicholas Dames
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