October 5/12, 2020, Issue

Feature

Mitch McConnell Defends His Turf

Can a political newcomer unseat Kentucky’s most aggressive campaigner?
Bob Moser
First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror

Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas’s Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented.
Sonia Shah
In the UK, Climate Isn’t a Political Issue. That’s a Problem.

The choice we face in responding to the climate crisis is between a just transition—and just a transition.
Daniel Judt

Editorial

The New Look of ‘The Nation’

Our print magazine’s relationship to the world we cover has changed—now so have we.
D.D. Guttenplan
Cancel the Presidential Debates—Permanently

We’d gain precious minutes of our lives that we might otherwise be tempted to waste.
Ed Burmila
Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do

Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe.
Bill McKibben
Decoding a Homeland Security Leak

An intelligence report on threats to the 2020 election, translated into plain English.
Ken Klippenstein
A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office

Postcards for Democracy! Because we need the Postal Service on Election Day and every day.
Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe
That Was David Graeber

The anthropologist who coined “the 99 percent” and “bullshit jobs” died at age 59.
Malcolm Harris
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Column

Melania Trump Really Doesn’t Care

A new book by her ex–best friend shows how the first lady sold her soul.
Katha Pollitt
If You Wait Until Election Day to Vote, You’re Already Too Late

The only way Democrats can prevent Trump from stealing the election is if overwhelming numbers vote early—and in person.
Elie Mystal
At a Military Cemetery, Trump Reflects on His Only War Hero

Calvin Trillin

Books & the Arts

Orlando Patterson and the Postcolonial Predicament

Out of the ruins of colonialism and empire, the sociologist insisted we could fashion a more egalitarian and liberated future.
Adom Getachew
Tea

Natalie Shapero
Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College?

The system that is nobody’s first choice.
Michael Kazin
Apocryphal

Christopher Phelps
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