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How the Pandemic Changed Young People’s Relationship to Substances How the Pandemic Changed Young People’s Relationship to Substances

During a year of isolation, many young adults increased their consumption of alcohol and other drugs. 

Aug 18, 2021 / StudentNation / Teresa Xie

Durbin, Whitehouse, Klobuchar at Kavanaugh hearing

Brett Kavanaugh Is a Liar—So Why Couldn’t Democrats Call Him One? Brett Kavanaugh Is a Liar—So Why Couldn’t Democrats Call Him One?

News reports are not helping by wrongly presenting the hearing as a “he said/she said” affair.

Oct 3, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

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Letters From the July 4-11, 2016, Issue Letters From the July 4-11, 2016, Issue

Bern on vs. Bern out… Establishment fetishism… The past as precedent… Correction!

Jun 16, 2016 / Our Readers

America’s Long Hangover

America’s Long Hangover America’s Long Hangover

How did Prohibition turn into a law-enforcement extravaganza?

Apr 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gage

Johann Hari

‘Addiction Is an Adaptation to Your Environment’: An Interview With Johann Hari ‘Addiction Is an Adaptation to Your Environment’: An Interview With Johann Hari

Addiction, according to Johann Hari, is less about drugs and more about human connection.

Apr 25, 2016 / Laura Flanders

Strange History

Strange History Strange History

John Lahr’s biography of Tennessee William gets mired down in psychoanalysis.

Oct 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein

The War on Drugs Is a War on Human Nature

The War on Drugs Is a War on Human Nature The War on Drugs Is a War on Human Nature

The unwinnable war transforms a freedom-loving republic into a freedom-fearing national security state.  

Dec 10, 2012 / Lewis Lapham

Regarding Christopher

Regarding Christopher Regarding Christopher

Hitchens could be a moral bully and a black-and-white thinker, but as a vivid presence he will long be remembered.

Dec 19, 2011 / Katha Pollitt

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