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Feature
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100
We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office, from helping Nixon derail the Paris Peace Talks and prolong the Vietnam War to green-lighting the invasion of Cambodia and Pinochet’s coup in Chile. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.
Greg Grandin
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Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile
The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.
Peter Kornbluh
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When “Suicide Watch” Becomes a Death Sentence
Instead of the help they need, people in prisons and jails with mental health issues are often left alone to suffer—and sometimes die.
Katie Rose Quandt
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In East Palestine, Norfolk Southern Hired a Company With a Long History of Ignoring Hazards
Why trust a company with CTEH’s spotty record to monitor air quality at the site of the Ohio train wreck? For the railroad, it all made perfect $en$e.
Jesse Marx and Nicolas Niarchos
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How to Fight the Right’s Moral Panic Over Parental Rights
How the right’s school-themed extremism has triggered a nationwide backlash.
Jennifer C. Berkshire
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Editorial
The Debt Ceiling Drama Is All Stagecraft
Remember: The US Treasury is obligated to make payments. The rest is optics.
James K. Galbraith for The Nation
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A Cleaner World Lies in Nationalized Banking
The private financial sector tosses a climate-conscious sheen over its horrific practices, but the best thing it could do for the planet would be to get very public—very quickly.
Max Moran
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One Man Killed Jordan Neely—but We All Failed Him
Everything about Neely’s death is a symptom of our collective rot—from the way we treat poverty as a crime to the way we treat soldiers as weapons that can be stowed.
Elie Mystal
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Writers Like Me Have Shut Down Hollywood. Here’s Why.
The Writers Guild of America is on strike because Hollywood bosses have treated our demands for fair and sustainable working conditions with contempt.
Josh Gondelman
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Eliane Brum Is in the Reforesting Vanguard
A conversation with the award-winning Brazilian writer and journalist about the politics of the Amazon rain forest, the violence that seethes beneath its canopy, and her new book, Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World.
Lewis Gordon
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Column
When Racial Justice Meant Universal Social Benefits
The left used to believe that reducing inequality across the board was the best way to combat racial injustice. What happened?
Adolph Reed Jr.
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Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being
Thomas has elevated “personal responsibility” into a prerequisite for citizenship. Yet he fails his own test.
Kali Holloway
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These Unions Are on the Front Lines Fighting Against the Uberization of Us All
Some long established unions are challenging Silicon Valley’s agenda by pushing back on AI, surveillance, and wage theft.
Jane McAlevey
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Books & the Arts
The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union
A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.
Michael Kazin
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Who Was Lydia Maria Child?
A new biography examines the life and times of the pioneering activist, abolitionist, and writer.
Susan Cheever
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Elias Canetti: The Last Cosmopolitan
Throughout his life, Canetti maintained his commitment to a humanity undivided by the artificial lines of a nation or state and standing as one collective whole.
Farah Abdessamad
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Is There Anything Below the Surface in “Beau Is Afraid”?
When mothers and dreams are involved, it is hard not to think of Freud. But in Ari Aster’s latest, very little is left to the imagination.
Jorge Cotte
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