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September 6/13, 2021, Issue

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Editorial

mock drug injection site

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.

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

Taliban Afghanistan

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.

Andrew Cuomo's Book Poster

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

Activists Rally Against Evictions In New York City

How the Eviction Moratorium Got Through

As the deadline neared, the White House floundered and progressives took action.

Simone Biles

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.

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.

The Transformation of Afghanistan

Letters

Letters From the September 6/13, 2021, Issue

The good place… Overconsumed…

Feature

Harry Reid

The Centrist Who Taught the Left

How Senator Harry Reid became the most influential mentor to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

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.

Bernie Sanders’s Third Campaign

As chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders’s big-government message has found its moment.

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.

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.

Emma Rothschild’s Family Sagas and Microhistories

Can one tell the story of a country through one family?

Nation Poetry

Drowning Creek

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