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How to Crush a Movement for Racial Justice

Heavy-handed policing by Arkansas authorities—with an assist from the Trump and Biden Justice Departments—put Dawn Jeffrey in jail and left her fellow protesters demoralized and demobilized.

Aaron Miguel Cantú and Kandist Mallett

How a Royal Visit Helped Weaken the Crown’s Grip on the Caribbean

William and Kate’s springtime tour didn’t spark the movement for independence and reparations in the Caribbean, but it did stoke it.

Michela Moscufo

Meet the California State Senator Who Wants to Decriminalize Psychedelics

Can Scott Wiener convince the state that his bill will reduce the “sheer misery” drug use is causing now?

John Semley

The World’s Biggest Trial of a Four-Day Workweek Shows: It Works

A shorter week allows workers to better take care of themselves without sacrificing productivity.

Bryce Covert

For Iranian Women, the Uprising Was a Long Time Coming

The protests are about choice—elective rather than mandatory hijab—not unlike the demands of abortion rights supporters in the United States.

Kiana Karimi

Debt and Inequality Will Be Key Issues at the UN’s Next Climate Conference

At COP27, activists will be focused on all the ways developed nations have made it harder for developing nations to survive the climate crisis.

Tina Gerhardt

Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal

Abortion and extremism have made the midterms a neck-and-neck race—but the party is still missing an economic message.

Jeet Heer for The Nation

Russia Hating: A Study of the News—and Views—We Find Fit to Print

Journalists and professors who have called Russia a fascist country are playing a poisonous game.

David Bromwich

How Social Media Erases Context

Indiscriminate sharing has dissolved the boundaries between what we say and when and where we say it.

Alexis Grenell

Supply-Side Economics Strikes Again

Calvin Trillin

The Civil War’s Economic Shadow

To finance the war, the Union had to turn to the banks, and with lasting consequences.

Stephanie McCurry

How the Courts Stack the Odds Against the Innocent

A new book by Daniel Medwed examines the reasons the wrongfully convicted find it so hard to prove their innocence.

Jed S. Rakoff

Javier Zamora and the Canon of Undocumented Literature

The poet’s memoir joins a growing body of work chronicling the personal and political odysseys undocumented Americans face. 

Jesús A. Rodríguez

First Foray Into Apophatic Theology

Matthew Olzammn

Mama I Am Sorry

Cindy Juyoung Ok

Becca Andrews’s New Book Captures the Final Days of Legal Abortion

The journalist was going to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Instead, her new book reports on what happened as it fell.

Amy Littlefield

Letters From the November 14/21, 2022, Issue

The real labor revival… The platform is the message…

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