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What Occupy Wall Street Organizers Would Do Differently

Do they still stand by the leaderless revolution?

Various Contributors

Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street

Policies to address America’s enormous wealth disparities are now on the political map in a way they weren’t before Occupy Wall Street.

Bryce Covert

Afropessimism and Its Discontents

A guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the politically confused.

Greg Tate

Sexism and Racism on the Left: What Has and Hasn’t Changed Since Occupy Wall Street

Dozens of Zuccotti Park activists pushed the movement to confront race and gender oppression—and have continued that work in the decade since.

Sarah M. Seltzer

Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference?

Flash in the pan or the prelude to political organizing as we know it today?

Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis

Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist?

Two OWS participants debate the ideology at the core of the anti-capitalist movement.

Natasha Lennard and Nikil Saval

This Is What the First Hours of a Near-Total Ban on Abortion Look Like

The Texas law SB 8 will force abortion clinics in the state to turn away about 80 percent of all patients.

Amy Littlefield

“Roe v. Wade” Will Functionally Cease to Exist in Texas

Unless the Supreme Court steps in, the country’s most dangerous anti-abortion law will go into effect, banning abortions after six weeks and placing a cash bounty on providers.

Elie Mystal for The Nation

Covid Is Here to Stay. This Is How We Should Respond.

Learning to live with Covid-19 is not an individual state of mind.

Abdullah Shihipar

The Age of Irrationality

With the rise of QAnon and the anti-vax movement, skepticism has become the province of the paranoid.

Katha Pollitt

Republicans Urge Defiance of Biden Mandates

Calvin Trillin

Russia’s War Against the Cold

A new history considers how the struggle with Siberia’s permafrost redefined the country.

Jennifer Wilson

Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction

In her new novel, Wayward, Spiotta offers an intricate portrait of how one woman experienced the uncertain days and months after Trump’s election.

Katie Fitzpatrick

David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Anarchist History of Humanity

In The Dawn of Everything, Graeber and Wengrow offer a sweeping and ambitious exploration of life without the state.

Daniel Immerwahr

How to Have a Safe Abortion—Even in Texas

Elisa Wells, a Plan C cofounder, discusses the future of reproductive care after SB 8.

Gloria Oladipo