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Feature
America’s Largest, Most Neglected Machine Could Be the Key to Radical Climate Activism
Most of us ignore the electrical grid, but it’s a crucial part of the transition to renewable energy capacity.
Jessi Jezewska Stevens
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What if the Wind and Sunshine Really Belonged to All of Us?
Only by taking a more radical approach to renewables—one inspired by American history—can we build the constituency needed to make climate justice a reality.
David McDermott Hughes
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The School Board Culture War
Republicans are pushing national wedge issues to the local level, but smart progressives are beating them.
John Nichols
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The Fight for Abortion After “Roe” Falls
It will be a battle with 50 different fronts.
Amy Littlefield
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Editorial
So You Want to Reduce Crime?
What kinds of investments have been proven to lower crime rates? (Hint: It’s not directing endless money to the police.)
Bryce Covert
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Democrats Must Become As Brave and Righteous as Abortion-Clinic Escorts
To win back abortion rights, Democrats need to learn how to fight the moral battle being waged by anti-abortion theocrats—something clinic escorts do every day.
Elie Mystal
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Even Under “Roe,” I Faced Barriers to Get an Abortion
In spite of having made up my mind, I still had to face unnecessary barriers in order to access medical care that I could have received online and by mail.
Larada Lee-Wallace
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6 Ways to Fight for Abortion Rights After “Roe”
We can win this eventually, but despair will make it harder. Just concentrate on what you can do now.
Katha Pollitt for The Nation
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Column
The GOP’s Pedophilia Smears Are An Incitement to Violence
The fusion of QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theories with a homophobic moral panic makes the current Republican grooming smears a threat to the physical safety of LGBTQ people.
Jeet Heer
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Don’t Boycott Amazon
They’re too big to be hurt by individual consumer choice. Instead, hit them where it really hurts.
Alexis Grenell
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Books & the Arts
Olga Ravn’s Office Novel in Space
The Employees offers a surreal and biting account of all the hazards and indignities of the contemporary workplace.
Jessica Loudis
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The Sea According to Rachel Carson
Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.
Hannah Gold
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The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation
Caroline Elkins’s new history of the British Empire is a damning account of its violent crimes against its subjects.
Howard W. French
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Back Page
How Economic Sanctions Shaped Today’s Global Powers
A conversation with Nicholas Mulder on the evolution and history of sanctions, his new book The Economic Weapon, and the role sanctions play after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Pablo Pryluka