Print Magazine May 20-27, 2019, Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial A Frontal Attack on Roe v. Wade As a Republican-majority court threatens the legal right to abortion, it’s time for states to step up. The Nation Has Donald Trump Committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors? Rep. Jamie Raskin, a noted constitutional scholar—and member of the House Judiciary Committee—discusses the question. John Nichols I Can’t Sleep Through All the Honking, and I’m Beeping Mad Another reader asks how to maintain ties of affection amid leftist infighting. Liza Featherstone The President Tweets His Millionth Lie Peter Kuper The New Political Group Supermajority Aims to Mobilize Women Across Race, Class, and Generation Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo, and Alicia Garza are pushing a “women’s new deal.” Joan Walsh Column A Radical Reunion: Harvard’s Student Strikers, 50 Years Later We are older, grayer, and for the most part, more rotund—but our commitments to left politics haven’t changed. Katha Pollitt Zelensky’s Victory Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the May 20-27, 2019, Issue Wanted: A peace candidate… They’ve had their turn… Not my candidate… Our Readers Feature Ecuador’s Crackdown on Abortion Is Putting Women in Jail For decades, abortion was considered a private matter. Now, a Nation investigation shows, women who terminate—or lose—pregnancies are facing prosecution and prison ti... Zoë Carpenter How Carbon Farming Can Help Stop Climate Change in Its Tracks New agricultural methods offer hope of restoring ecological balance. Wilbur Wood Books & the Arts When the Black Panthers Came to Algeria In Algiers, Third World Capital, Elaine Mokhtefi captures a lost world of camaraderie, shared ideals, and frequent miscommunication. Elias Rodriques The Transformation of Bernie Sanders How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner. Matthew Karp Harmony Korine’s Boomer Fable The Beach Bum, starring Matthew McConaughey, is all about excess, anarchy, and baby boomers. Erin Schwartz Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 See All x
A Frontal Attack on Roe v. Wade As a Republican-majority court threatens the legal right to abortion, it’s time for states to step up. The Nation
Has Donald Trump Committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors? Rep. Jamie Raskin, a noted constitutional scholar—and member of the House Judiciary Committee—discusses the question. John Nichols
I Can’t Sleep Through All the Honking, and I’m Beeping Mad Another reader asks how to maintain ties of affection amid leftist infighting. Liza Featherstone
The New Political Group Supermajority Aims to Mobilize Women Across Race, Class, and Generation Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo, and Alicia Garza are pushing a “women’s new deal.” Joan Walsh
A Radical Reunion: Harvard’s Student Strikers, 50 Years Later We are older, grayer, and for the most part, more rotund—but our commitments to left politics haven’t changed. Katha Pollitt
Letters From the May 20-27, 2019, Issue Wanted: A peace candidate… They’ve had their turn… Not my candidate… Our Readers
Ecuador’s Crackdown on Abortion Is Putting Women in Jail For decades, abortion was considered a private matter. Now, a Nation investigation shows, women who terminate—or lose—pregnancies are facing prosecution and prison ti... Zoë Carpenter
How Carbon Farming Can Help Stop Climate Change in Its Tracks New agricultural methods offer hope of restoring ecological balance. Wilbur Wood
When the Black Panthers Came to Algeria In Algiers, Third World Capital, Elaine Mokhtefi captures a lost world of camaraderie, shared ideals, and frequent miscommunication. Elias Rodriques
The Transformation of Bernie Sanders How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner. Matthew Karp
Harmony Korine’s Boomer Fable The Beach Bum, starring Matthew McConaughey, is all about excess, anarchy, and baby boomers. Erin Schwartz