November 1/8, 2021, Issue

Feature

Art at the Border of Power and Ecology

Miguel Fernández de Castro’s multimedia works reveal the ties between money, migration, and environmental disaster.
Max Pearl
India Walton Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere

Buffalo’s transformation is the fruit of years of struggle.
JoAnn Wypijewski
The Most Progressive Governor In America?

Many who were once skeptical of the former investment banker now admit that New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s policies are compassionate and forward-thinking.
John Nichols
How NOT to Talk About Race

The right wants to convince America that critical race theory is a sinister program of indoctrination.
Patricia J. Williams

Editorial

Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible.

Critics of the American Rescue Plan made two dire predictions. Both proved wrong.
Mike Konczal
Poverty Can Happen to Anyone

Our new podcast, Going for Broke, lets Americans living on the edge have the last word.
Ray Suarez
In Our Orbit: Dave Zirin’s “The Kaepernick Effect”

The Nation’s sports editor has a new book out on the politics of “taking a knee.”
Peter Rothberg
To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them

Land-based nuclear weapons are world-ending accident waiting to happen, and completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent.
Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon
There Are No Borders for the Rich

For the ruling class, the nation-state is an indispensable fiction.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for The Nation
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Column

Mark Zuckerberg Knows Exactly How Bad Facebook Is

Whistleblower testimony proves the social media giant is harmful and dishonest, and can’t be trusted to regulate itself.
Jeet Heer
Championing Mental Health Is the Latest Celebrity Grift

The Sussexes are cashing in on the wellness explosion, and it couldn’t be more craven.
Alexis Grenell
What Riot?

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

“Gossip Girl” and the Demented Culture of Fame

HBO’s reboot of the teen drama explores how the rich and famous make their lives consumable for the rest of us.
Erin Schwartz
The Mysteries of the Childhood Memoir

Richard Wollheim’s Germs is a brilliant and curious example of a genre dedicated to unraveling the riddles of a time we have a hard time remembering.
John Banville
Jonathan Franzen’s God

A multigenerational saga about a Midwestern family, Crossroads is like most of Franzen novels—with one exception: Every plotline leads to the big guy himself.
Rumaan Alam
In the New Year

Natasha Rao
We Came Here to Get Away From You

Donika Kelly
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