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May 29/June 5, 2023, Issue

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Editorial

The Debt Ceiling Drama Is All Stagecraft

Remember: The US Treasury is obligated to make payments. The rest is optics.

James K. Galbraith for The Nation

A Cleaner World Lies in Nationalized Banking

The private financial sector tosses a climate-conscious sheen over its horrific practices, but the best thing it could do for the planet would be to get very public—very quickly.

Max Moran

Jordan Neely lies unconscious on the floor of the F train after another passenger placed him in a chokehold on Monday, May 1, 2023, in New York.

One Man Killed Jordan Neely—but We All Failed Him

Everything about Neely’s death is a symptom of our collective rot—from the way we treat poverty as a crime to the way we treat soldiers as weapons that can be stowed.

Elie Mystal

Members of the Writers Guild of America East on the picket line outside of the Peacock NewFront on May 2, 2023, in New York City.

Writers Like Me Have Shut Down Hollywood. Here’s Why.

The Writers Guild of America is on strike because Hollywood bosses have treated our demands for fair and sustainable working conditions with contempt.

Josh Gondelman

Eliane Brum Is in the Reforesting Vanguard

A conversation with the award-winning Brazilian writer and journalist about the politics of the Amazon rain forest, the violence that seethes beneath its canopy, and her new book, ...

Lewis Gordon

Column

When Racial Justice Meant Universal Social Benefits

The left used to believe that reducing inequality across the board was the best way to combat racial injustice. What happened?

Adolph Reed Jr.

Clarence Thomas Is What He Wrongly Accuses Black Folks of Being

Thomas has elevated “personal responsibility” into a prerequisite for citizenship. Yet he fails his own test.

Kali Holloway

These Unions Are on the Front Lines Fighting Against the Uberization of Us All

Some long established unions are challenging Silicon Valley’s agenda by pushing back on AI, surveillance, and wage theft.

Jane McAlevey

Hiring Tucker Carlson

Calvin Trillin

Feature

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100

We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office, from helping Nixon derail the Paris Peace Talks and prolong the Vietnam War to green-lighting the invasion o...

Greg Grandin

Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile

The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.

Peter Kornbluh

When “Suicide Watch” Becomes a Death Sentence

Instead of the help they need, people in prisons and jails with mental health issues are often left alone to suffer—and sometimes die.

Katie Rose Quandt

A thick black plume rising over East Palestine, Ohio on February 6 after some 50 cars on a Norfolk Southern train derailed.

In East Palestine, Norfolk Southern Hired a Company With a Long History of Ignoring Hazards

Why trust a company with CTEH's spotty record to monitor air quality at the site of the Ohio train wreck? For the railroad, it all made perfect $en$e.

Jesse Marx and Nicolas Niarchos