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Gun Rights Iowa

In Iowa, Voters Set Their Sights on Gun Rights In Iowa, Voters Set Their Sights on Gun Rights

Gun control advocates say a November ballot initiative will make regulations impossible. But the Supreme Court may have already made that a reality.

Nov 1, 2022 / StudentNation / Nina Baker

How Social Media Erases Context

How Social Media Erases Context How Social Media Erases Context

Indiscriminate sharing has dissolved the boundaries between what we say and when and where we say it.

Nov 1, 2022 / Column / Alexis Grenell

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Letters From the November 14/21, 2022, Issue Letters From the November 14/21, 2022, Issue

The real labor revival… The platform is the message…

Nov 1, 2022 / Our Readers

Liz Truss

Supply-Side Economics Strikes Again Supply-Side Economics Strikes Again

We bid farewell to poor Liz Truss. Her economics caused a fuss. Supply-side loyalty prevails. Despite the fact it always fails. Liz thought that wealth would downward trickle. That…

Nov 1, 2022 / Column / Calvin Trillin

How to Crush a Movement for Racial Justice

How to Crush a Movement for Racial Justice How to Crush a Movement for Racial Justice

Heavy-handed policing by Arkansas authorities—with an assist from the Trump and Biden Justice Departments—put Dawn Jeffrey in jail and left her fellow protesters demoralized and de...

Nov 1, 2022 / Feature / Aaron Miguel Cantú and Kandist Mallett

Photo diagram from the Bruno Hauptman trial.

How the Courts Stack the Odds Against the Innocent How the Courts Stack the Odds Against the Innocent

A new book by Daniel Medwed examines the reasons the wrongfully convicted find it so hard to prove their innocence.

Nov 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jed S. Rakoff

Nation Poetry

First Foray Into Apophatic Theology First Foray Into Apophatic Theology

and then God is not like the sound the kindling makes as it meets the matchhead, not like the buoy in the bay invisible at night, not like the gravity calling to the pear on the bo…

Nov 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Olzammn

Nation Poetry

Mama I Am Sorry Mama I Am Sorry

For the stillbirth and the live ones. For my books, degrees, and all the other1 ways I have betrayed you. For unlinking our arms a dozen times the year before2 your surgery, unconv…

Nov 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Cindy Juyoung Ok

Meet the California State Senator Who Wants to Decriminalize Psychedelics

Meet the California State Senator Who Wants to Decriminalize Psychedelics Meet the California State Senator Who Wants to Decriminalize Psychedelics

Can Scott Wiener convince the state that his bill will reduce the “sheer misery” drug use is causing now?

Nov 1, 2022 / Feature / John Semley

Why Did the Football World Reject Geno Smith?

Why Did the Football World Reject Geno Smith? Why Did the Football World Reject Geno Smith?

On this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, sportswriter Chuck Modiano joins the show to talk about Geno’s success.

Oct 31, 2022 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

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