Print Magazine May 17/24, 2021, Issue Cover art by: Eric Hanson Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Joe Biden Wants to Transform Care Work in America We must start by viewing care work as an essential component not just of the economy but of life itself. Mike Konczal Frances Fox Piven Wants You to Raise Hell The great theorist of disruptive power explains “dissensus” and how social movements spur elected officials into action. Mark Engler How to Stop Andrew Yang Ranked-choice voting allows New Yorkers to block this celebrity candidate even without a clear progressive front-runner. D.D. Guttenplan White Supremacy Never Takes a Day Off The Chauvin verdict seemed like a victory. Then came the racist reaction to the verdict—and the murder of Ma’Khia Bryant. Elie Mystal for The Nation Remembering Ramsey Clark 1927–2021 There will never be another like him. Victor Navasky Column Just Because Cuomo Deserves Due Process Doesn’t Mean He Shouldn’t Resign Sexual assault victims face an impossible burden of proof. We know enough to demand that the governor step down. Alexis Grenell Republicans Will Punish Democrats for Every Reform They Make But that shouldn’t stop Democrats from embracing big and sweeping changes while they can. Elie Mystal Subscribers Only Die-Hard False-Flag Theorists Analyze the January 6 Riot Videos Calvin Trillin Feature The Story Behind Your Salad: Farmworkers, Covid-19, and a Dangerous Commute Each day, Mexican farmworkers endure a grueling journey to get to their jobs in US lettuce fields. This year, that journey turned potentially deadly. Esther Honig A Prophet at the Barbecue: Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021 Three views of a Texas giant. Benjamin Moser The Father of Environmental Justice Isn’t Done Yet Robert Bullard has been fighting a sometimes lonely battle since the 1970s. For his many heirs, the struggle has just begun. Amal Ahmed Books & the Arts Yi Sang’s Global Poetry Through his synthetic and surrealist style, the Korean poet helped chart an alternate path of internationalism in an age of empire. E. Tammy Kim Jhumpa Lahiri’s Quietly Bracing New Novel How writing in Italian gave Lahiri a new sense of creative freedom. Jennifer Wilson The Rise of Adjunct Lit How a bleak future in and out of the academy has produced a new kind of campus novel. Maggie Doherty The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism In White Freedom, historian Tyler Stovall examines how liberty for some has always entailed a lack of liberty for many others. Olúfémi O. Táíwò Graham Greene’s God As a new biography shows, the British novelist was always haunted by, and uncertain about, his own faith. John Banville The Broken Bell Daisy Fried Heaven Hua Xi Can Capitalism Be Fixed? In his new book, Branko Milanovic charts what has gone wrong with contemporary capitalism while also insisting we must reconcile ourselves to its contradictions. Alyssa Battistoni Richard Wright’s Lost Novel In The Man Who Lived Underground, Wright offers a gothic tale of police violence and urban surrealism. Elias Rodriques Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 See All x
Joe Biden Wants to Transform Care Work in America We must start by viewing care work as an essential component not just of the economy but of life itself. Mike Konczal
Frances Fox Piven Wants You to Raise Hell The great theorist of disruptive power explains “dissensus” and how social movements spur elected officials into action. Mark Engler
How to Stop Andrew Yang Ranked-choice voting allows New Yorkers to block this celebrity candidate even without a clear progressive front-runner. D.D. Guttenplan
White Supremacy Never Takes a Day Off The Chauvin verdict seemed like a victory. Then came the racist reaction to the verdict—and the murder of Ma’Khia Bryant. Elie Mystal for The Nation
Just Because Cuomo Deserves Due Process Doesn’t Mean He Shouldn’t Resign Sexual assault victims face an impossible burden of proof. We know enough to demand that the governor step down. Alexis Grenell
Republicans Will Punish Democrats for Every Reform They Make But that shouldn’t stop Democrats from embracing big and sweeping changes while they can. Elie Mystal
The Story Behind Your Salad: Farmworkers, Covid-19, and a Dangerous Commute Each day, Mexican farmworkers endure a grueling journey to get to their jobs in US lettuce fields. This year, that journey turned potentially deadly. Esther Honig
The Father of Environmental Justice Isn’t Done Yet Robert Bullard has been fighting a sometimes lonely battle since the 1970s. For his many heirs, the struggle has just begun. Amal Ahmed
Yi Sang’s Global Poetry Through his synthetic and surrealist style, the Korean poet helped chart an alternate path of internationalism in an age of empire. E. Tammy Kim
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Quietly Bracing New Novel How writing in Italian gave Lahiri a new sense of creative freedom. Jennifer Wilson
The Rise of Adjunct Lit How a bleak future in and out of the academy has produced a new kind of campus novel. Maggie Doherty
The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism In White Freedom, historian Tyler Stovall examines how liberty for some has always entailed a lack of liberty for many others. Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Graham Greene’s God As a new biography shows, the British novelist was always haunted by, and uncertain about, his own faith. John Banville
Can Capitalism Be Fixed? In his new book, Branko Milanovic charts what has gone wrong with contemporary capitalism while also insisting we must reconcile ourselves to its contradictions. Alyssa Battistoni
Richard Wright’s Lost Novel In The Man Who Lived Underground, Wright offers a gothic tale of police violence and urban surrealism. Elias Rodriques