On this week’s podcast, Laila Lalami on ISIS and American Muslims, Joan Walsh on our distorted gun politics, and Amy Wilentz and Tom Lutz on Chernobyl.
To mark the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl’s disaster and the lessons it still holds for us today, The Nation has assembled a collection of articles from our archives.
There are no effective “safeguards” against nuclear disasters, and Japan’s crisis is only the latest display of the overwhelming risks involved in splitting atoms for energy.