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October 18/25, 2021, Issue

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Editorial

Haitian immigrant encampment Del Rio Texas

Biden’s Immigration Policy Picks Up Where Trump Left Off

The administration is carrying out mass expulsions cribbed straight from the Stephen Miller playbook.

Aída Chávez for The Nation

Column

Child walking to school

“Feel-Good” News Story or Poverty Propaganda?

Viral news stories of individual pluck and charity only underscore how cruel our society is.

Taliban Patrol Truck

Our Foreign Policy Elite Has Learned Nothing From Afghanistan

The War on Terror’s promoters and apologists are determined to blame Biden for finally bringing one bloody chapter to an end.

Surprise for Arizona Senators

Feature

The Past 2 Years Have Left Portland Reeling. What Kind of Recovery Comes Next?

Will efforts to rehabilitate Portland’s brand eclipse the tentative steps taken toward real reform?

The Gates Foundation Avoids a Reckoning on Race and Power

Can philanthropy decolonize? Only if wealthy donors grapple with the difference between giving away money and actually sharing power.

This Supreme Court Term, Conservatives Have One Aim: Stop Progress

During the next nine months, conservatives justices will use their power to attack abortion rights, weaken gun regulations, and rewind the clock to a darker age.

Books & the Arts

The Expansive Feminism of Jacqueline Rose

Rose’s latest book, On Violence and On Violence Against Women, is a rigorous and capacious study of contemporary gender politics and solidarity.

Grace Cho’s Memoir of Food and Empire

Intertwining a personal story of Korean food ways and a family history caught in the midst of violence, Tastes Like War tests the limits, and shows the power, of memoir.

Was Jimmy Carter an Outlier?

Politicians say things to get elected and then, once in office, do otherwise; that’s politics. But Carter demanded that we grade him on a curve.

Do We Need to Work?

In Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, anthropologist James Suzman asks whether we might learn to live like our ancestors did—that is, to value ...

Anthony Veasna So’s Portraits of Diaspora

His posthumous collection Afterparties is part of a new wave of writing on the cultural memory and historical traumas of Southeast Asian im...

Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery

The historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.

Sally Rooney’s Fiction for End Times

In her third novel, Rooney does more than just respond to critics; she surveys the wreckage of modern life.

Tony Tulathimutte

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