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

We tried to tell you.

Aug 29, 2018 / Feature / The Nation

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Truth Isn’t Truth! Truth Isn’t Truth!

The mobster-in-chief continues to weave a web of...truths?

Aug 28, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Stand Up for the Sanctity of Unborn Life… Stand Up for the Sanctity of Unborn Life…

...and slut-shame all the full-grown women!

Aug 21, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

BlaKkKlansman’s Leap Into the Present

BlaKkKlansman’s Leap Into the Present BlaKkKlansman’s Leap Into the Present

And in Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline, we find a protagonist plunged so deeply into her own mind that there really is no outside.

Aug 16, 2018 / Stuart Klawans

William Parker’s Late-Career Bloom

William Parker’s Late-Career Bloom William Parker’s Late-Career Bloom

After a 45-year-long career, the jazz bassist is still creating experimental music pulsing with humanity.

Aug 16, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu

Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter

Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter 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.”

Aug 16, 2018 / Farah Jasmine Griffin

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Letters From the September 10-17, 2018, Issue Letters From the September 10-17, 2018, Issue

Poetry, wide open… The poetry editors reply…

Aug 16, 2018 / Our Readers, Stephanie Burt, and Carmen Giménez Smith

Manafort and Gates

Manafort and Gates Manafort and Gates

Their tales of corruption and thieving and fraud Don’t alter the president’s views in the slightest. He’s comfortable boasting, when all’s said and done, That he has attracted the…

Aug 16, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The World of Eduardo Galeano

The World of Eduardo Galeano The World of Eduardo Galeano

The writer's radical commitments made him an intimate witness to many of the major turning points in Latin American politics over the last 75 years.

Aug 16, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Mark Engler

The Promise of a Universal Basic Income—and Its Limitations

The Promise of a Universal Basic Income—and Its Limitations The Promise of a Universal Basic Income—and Its Limitations

Guaranteed income would help address issues of basic subsistence, but it's not the panacea its advocates claim it to be.

Aug 15, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bryce Covert

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