How to Solve the Crisis on Rikers Island How to Solve the Crisis on Rikers Island
The dangerously overcrowded and mismanaged jail must be closed—but even before then, there are things we can do right now to keep people out and send them home faster.
Oct 19, 2021 / Elizabeth Gaynes
Geopolitics Will Cost Us Our Planet Geopolitics Will Cost Us Our Planet
For all of our posturing, we’re doomed if the world’s biggest players aren’t in agreement.
Oct 19, 2021 / Column / Michael T. Klare
Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways? Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development insists it’s “inclusive,” but it’s still strong-arming countries in the Global South.
Oct 19, 2021 / Steven Dean
To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them
Land-based nuclear weapons are world-ending accident waiting to happen, and completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent.
Oct 19, 2021 / Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon
What Riot? What Riot?
Mike Pence stood up to Donald Trump’s tirade. He certified the vote. He was unflinching. He now implies that day’s been overblown, Though he’s the one the mob had talked of lynchin…
Oct 19, 2021 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue
Our carbon bootprint… The forgotten forever war… Fuzzy math… Feminism: left and white? (web only)…
Oct 19, 2021 / Our Readers and Rafia Zakaria
Art at the Border of Power and Ecology Art at the Border of Power and Ecology
Miguel Fernández de Castro’s multimedia works reveal the ties between money, migration, and environmental disaster.
India Walton Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere India Walton Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere
Buffalo’s transformation is the fruit of years of struggle.
Oct 19, 2021 / Feature / JoAnn Wypijewski
“Gossip Girl” and the Demented Culture of Fame “Gossip Girl” and the Demented Culture of Fame
HBO’s reboot of the teen drama explores how the rich and famous make their lives consumable for the rest of us.
Oct 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
In the New Year In the New Year
Sun on my face and the train slips into the tunnel. Dim reflection confronts. Perhaps I am lacking in something substantial like iron, or virtue. How easy it is to hurt someone, ho…
Oct 19, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Natasha Rao