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The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil

The roots of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe go back 50 years, when zealots preaching a gospel of misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over America’s largest Protestant denomination.

Sarah Posner

Meet the Rhode Island Progressives Taking on the Democratic Establishment

The Rhode Island Political Cooperative is rebuilding community trust in the nation’s smallest state.

John Nichols

How Kansas Kept Abortion Legal

When voters, even in a deep-red state, had the chance to decide for themselves, they protected abortion rights.

Amy Littlefield

It’s Time for Democrats to Stop Undermining Teachers’ Unions

Unions are key to building multi-racial solidarity and fighting divisive far-right politics.

Emelia Gold and Nicholas Rabb

Lessons for Progressives From Yuh-Line Niou’s Loss

Could the outcome in the NY-10 congressional race—a centrist going to Washington—have been avoided?

Joan Walsh

New York City Welcomes Migrants—and Criminalizes Them

By busing migrants to New York City, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has revealed the inherent contradictions of sanctuary cities, but not in the way he thinks.

Gaby Del Valle

President Biden’s Debt Relief Is Just the First Step

Now that the president has canceled student debt once, he can do it again.

Eleni Schirmer for The Nation

Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence

Caught between a Russian past and a NATO future, the poorest country in the EU faces a political crisis—and a struggle over competing visions of national pride.

Jeet Heer

The Democratic Party Shouldn’t Be a Gerontocracy

Half the US population is under 40—someone born during the Truman administration can barely grasp what life is like for them.

Katha Pollitt

What Will It Take to Stymie Right-Wing Supervillain Leonard Leo?

With the help of $1.6 billion, the man who helped engineer the conservative takeover of the courts is about to wreak serious havoc.

Elie Mystal

Overheard From Those Going Through the Boxes Found in Trump’s Basement

Calvin Trillin

Jordan Peele’s Extraterrestrial Americana

Telling a tale of cowboys, aliens, and Hollywood, the director’s third feature film, Nope, is his most successful cinematic spectacle to date.

Stephen Kearse

The Mysteries of Adam Smith

How to understand Adam Smith’s politics

Glory Liu

Is the Avant-Garde Still Avant-Garde?

Today’s radical art movements can always congeal into tomorrow’s orthodoxy.

Stefan Collini

[Take immortality, God, but give]

Dmitry Blizniuk

Criminalized for Being Pregnant

The organization National Advocates for Pregnant Women is trying to make sure that law enforcement officials, prosecutors, medical providers, and others know how to prevent criminalizing people for their pregnancy outcomes.

Dani McClain

Letters From the September 19/26, 2022, Issue

Studying ecology… Pipelines to plowshares… Graphic depictions…

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