October 31/November 7, 2022, Issue

Cover art by: Brian Stauffer

Feature

I Wanted a Boyfriend. My Life Coach Told Me to Become a Commodity.

Life coaching offered the energy and promise I was looking for—until I learned what it wanted from me in return.
Geoffrey Mak
China and Russia Are Not Mirror Images

Both countries pose major challenges to US foreign policy, but understanding their differences is crucial to reforming the global system.
Jake Werner
The Right’s Religious Liberty Agenda Is on a Collision Course With Labor Law

Religious employers have found a way to give themselves cover for blatant discrimination—and the Supreme Court is ready to back them up.
Bryce Covert

Editorial

Trump Toadies Control the Republican Party

The Republican Party’s official agenda is a capitulation to extremists and a display of distortion and aggression.
Chris Lehmann
Across the Country, Students Are Fighting for Abortion Access

An October day of action is the latest sign that a new generation, emboldened by the overturn of Roe, is surging into political organizing.
Amy Littlefield
We Should Be Fighting for a World Without Adoption

If poverty, racism, and health care inequities were properly redressed, adoption would be a last resort.
Michele Merritt
Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine

Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity.
Kai Bird for The Nation
The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers

Notes from Inflation Economics 101.
Robert Pollin
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Column

Gallia Est Omnis Divisa in Partes Tres

Calvin Trillin
Banning Books Is a Threat to Public Education

To say nothing of the fact that we don’t value reading enough in the first place!
Katha Pollitt
Democrats Still Aren’t Trying Hard Enough to Reclaim the Judiciary

If Democrats really want to take back the judicial branch, they can start by ditching an old tradition: the blue slip.
Elie Mystal

Books & the Arts

The Ghosts of “Irma Vep”

Olivier Assayas’s clever and beguiling HBO miniseries responds to the state of cinema in the age of streaming.
Vikram Murthi
MI5’s War Against British Intellectuals and Artists

The British Security Service’s futile record of harassment and surveillance.
Richard J. Evans
How the United States Fails the Chronically Ill

In her new book, the poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke charts her and many Americans’ struggle with chronic illness.
Libby Watson
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