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

Letters From the November 14/21, 2022, Issue

The real labor revival… The platform is the message…

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