Print Magazine September 6/13, 2021, Issue Cover art by: Ryan Inzana Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial We Should Hand Out Free Heroin to Drug Users The idea that abstinence works is more about our fear of drugs than it is about science. P.E. Moskowitz We Have to Choose the Future of the Planet As the devastating Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report makes clear, we have political choices to make right now if we want to avert global catastrophe. Mark Hertsgaard for The Nation Kabul Has Fallen. Now What? With the collapse of the US-backed government, Washington must chart a new course—but it won’t be easy. Rajan Menon The Real Question Is Why Andrew Cuomo Took So Long to Fall New York hasn’t had a governor leave in dignity in years—and that is not a fluke. Zephyr Teachout Column How the Eviction Moratorium Got Through As the deadline neared, the White House floundered and progressives took action. Aída Chávez Black Women Olympians Showed Us What It Means to Be Excellent—and Human If there is a sea change in the way mental health is understood in elite sports, it is being led by Simone Biles and other Black women. Kali Holloway Have Democrats Become the Party of the Rich? If you’re waiting for Democrats to talk as frankly about wealth as they do about race, don’t hold your breath. David Bromwich The Transformation of Afghanistan Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the September 6/13, 2021, Issue The good place… Overconsumed… Our Readers Feature The Centrist Who Taught the Left How Senator Harry Reid became the most influential mentor to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Eoin Higgins The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic For years, Rob Wallace warned that industrial agriculture could cause deadly outbreaks at a global scale. It made him an exile in his field. Eamon Whalen Bernie Sanders’s Third Campaign As chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders’s big-government message has found its moment. John Nichols Remembering Bob Moses, 1935–2021 His leadership ushered in alternative conceptions of gender, race, and political power that would, eventually, shake the world. Margaret Burnham Books & the Arts Adam Curtis’s Modern Discontents In his new eight-hour epic, the British filmmaker offers a globe-trotting chronicle of our times. Kevin Lozano How Capitalism Has Made the World Sick Rupa Marya and Raj Patel’s Inflamed argues that the human cost of our economic system is a key to understanding the health of the world. Sarah Jones Emma Rothschild’s Family Sagas and Microhistories Can one tell the story of a country through one family? David A. Bell Drowning Creek Ada Limón Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 See All x
We Should Hand Out Free Heroin to Drug Users The idea that abstinence works is more about our fear of drugs than it is about science. P.E. Moskowitz
We Have to Choose the Future of the Planet As the devastating Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report makes clear, we have political choices to make right now if we want to avert global catastrophe. Mark Hertsgaard for The Nation
Kabul Has Fallen. Now What? With the collapse of the US-backed government, Washington must chart a new course—but it won’t be easy. Rajan Menon
The Real Question Is Why Andrew Cuomo Took So Long to Fall New York hasn’t had a governor leave in dignity in years—and that is not a fluke. Zephyr Teachout
How the Eviction Moratorium Got Through As the deadline neared, the White House floundered and progressives took action. Aída Chávez
Black Women Olympians Showed Us What It Means to Be Excellent—and Human If there is a sea change in the way mental health is understood in elite sports, it is being led by Simone Biles and other Black women. Kali Holloway
Have Democrats Become the Party of the Rich? If you’re waiting for Democrats to talk as frankly about wealth as they do about race, don’t hold your breath. David Bromwich
The Centrist Who Taught the Left How Senator Harry Reid became the most influential mentor to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Eoin Higgins
The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic For years, Rob Wallace warned that industrial agriculture could cause deadly outbreaks at a global scale. It made him an exile in his field. Eamon Whalen
Bernie Sanders’s Third Campaign As chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders’s big-government message has found its moment. John Nichols
Remembering Bob Moses, 1935–2021 His leadership ushered in alternative conceptions of gender, race, and political power that would, eventually, shake the world. Margaret Burnham
Adam Curtis’s Modern Discontents In his new eight-hour epic, the British filmmaker offers a globe-trotting chronicle of our times. Kevin Lozano
How Capitalism Has Made the World Sick Rupa Marya and Raj Patel’s Inflamed argues that the human cost of our economic system is a key to understanding the health of the world. Sarah Jones
Emma Rothschild’s Family Sagas and Microhistories Can one tell the story of a country through one family? David A. Bell