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Homeownership and the American Dream During Covid Homeownership and the American Dream During Covid

Were families that owned a home better protected from financial hardship compared to renters?

May 3, 2022 / StudentNation / Maya Dalton and Ross Thomas

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Letters From the May 16/23, 2022, Issue Letters From the May 16/23, 2022, Issue

War in Ukraine… Ellen Willis on desire… The other existential threat…  Suffrage and struggle (web only)…

May 3, 2022 / Our Readers and Meredith Tax

Le Pen’s Third Try for the Presidency Fails

Le Pen’s Third Try for the Presidency Fails Le Pen’s Third Try for the Presidency Fails

You ran again and then you ran again, And still the French did not elect Le Pen. They knew you could have done a lot of harm If number three turned out to be the charm. We hope the…

May 3, 2022 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Angela Garbes

Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want

Garbes’s new book looks at what it means to be a parent when we are “caught between the way we were raised and the way we want to live.”

May 3, 2022 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web

Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web

Her latest novel tackles a favorite topic of her fiction—the excesses of the Internet and modern technologies.

May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Erin Somers

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy

The enduring legacy and capacious vision of Black Reconstruction.

May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Gerald Horne

Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance

Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance

Lynn Garafola’s biography of the dancer and choreographer charts her globetrotting life and radical art. 

May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson

Nation Poetry

To a Friend Returning to Aleppo To a Friend Returning to Aleppo

We opened a bottle of wine, summoned mountains overlooking ancient cities, & cities, those pits of unease, & we left your mother’s illness alone—your mother, who insists yo…

May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Zeina Hashem Beck

Yes, the Theocrats on the Court Really Are Going to Overturn “Roe v. Wade”

Yes, the Theocrats on the Court Really Are Going to Overturn “Roe v. Wade” Yes, the Theocrats on the Court Really Are Going to Overturn “Roe v. Wade”

If you thought they were joking, you weren’t paying attention.

May 3, 2022 / Elie Mystal

Uniform blue tents and hanging laundry and a crowd of people in a concrete shelter

The US Must End Its Economic War Against Venezuela The US Must End Its Economic War Against Venezuela

Even the Venezuelan opposition wants Washington to ease its sanctions regime.

May 2, 2022 / James North

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