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September 24-October 1, 2018, Issue

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Editorial

I Want to Explore Polyamory, My Partner Doesn’t. What Should I Do?

Another reader asks how she can protect others from an ex-colleague who may have assaulted three women.

Liza Featherstone

Jerry Brown’s Climate Legacy Is Still Being Decided

The California governor has been a stellar first-generation climate leader, but now science requires leaving fossil fuels in the ground.

Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter

Angela Davis, whose bond Franklin offered to post in 1970, says that the singer’s work “helped to shape and deepen a collective consciousness anchored in a yearning for freedom.”

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Column

Jefferson Davis

The Widest Political Divide in America Isn’t Between Left and Right

We’re split along racial and gender lines—handing Congress to Democrats in November won’t change that.

Avital Ronell

Power in the Ivory Tower

What on earth is going on at NYU?

John Mccain Casket

Comparison

Letters

Letters From the September 24-October 1, 2018, Issue

‘68 Letdown What a gigantic disappointment the special 1968 issue, “Year of Global Insurrection” [Aug. 27/Sept. 3], must be for anyone who was actually alive and aware in ‘68 and e… Read More

Feature

Tropical Forests Are Flipping From Storing Carbon to Releasing It

Illegal logging and land seizures are driving this ominous yet overlooked scientific trend.

The Climate-Wrecking Industry… and How to Beat It

Insisting that we’re all responsible for global warming lets the biggest corporate polluters off the hook.

Jerry Brown vs. the Climate Wreckers: Is He Doing Enough?

The California governor has led the nation in reducing emissions, but activists say he won’t take the next step: leaving fossil fuels in the ground.

Mark Hertsgaard

Drought

Words of Warning: The Top 10 ‘Nation’ Articles on Climate Change

We tried to tell you.

The Green Jobs Revolution Needs to Include All of Us

A few years ago, Adan Anguiano was in prison. Now he has a career installing solar panels in East Los Angeles.

Books & the Arts

The Women of Impressionism

Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Nourse, Berthe Morisot, and Rosa Bonheur were as central to Impressionism’s shifting and often contradictory currents as their male counterparts.

Barry Schwabsky

The Afterlives of Charles de Gaulle

A new biography claims his vision was a stabilizing synthesis of France’s monarchical and republican political traditions. But was it?

The Gospel According to serpentwithfeet

The former choirboy blurs the earthly and the heavenly on his debut album, soil.

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