Edward Snowden Speaks

The NSA whistleblower’s new memoir is essential reading.

D.D. Guttenplan

Up in Smoke

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Matt Bors

The Student Debt Problem Is a Family Crisis

More and more parents are ending up trapped between what they feel is a moral obligation toward higher education and their financial reality.

Mike Konczal

23 Reasons to Climate Strike Today

Take to the streets.

Bill McKibben

Bolton’s Gone. Is the Trumpian World Order About to Begin?

Whether a Trump-dictated foreign policy is a good thing is anyone’s guess.

Michael T. Klare

Naomi Klein Knows a Green New Deal Is Our Only Hope Against Climate Catastrophe

In her new book, Klein argues that our current crisis cannot be separated from a long history and brutal present of human exploitation.

Lynne Feeley

Margaret Atwood Shouldn’t Exonerate Aunt Lydia

The Testaments, Atwood’s sequel to Handmaid’s Tale, gives undue credit to Gilead’s misogynistic female enabler.

Katha Pollitt

New Air Force Anthem

Calvin Trillin

Letters From the October 7, 2019, Issue

Sold out, again… Blame the media?…

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