Print Magazine

August 23/30, 2021, Issue

Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue

Editorial

Solidarity With Charlottesville Rallies Are Held Across The Country, In Wake Of Death After Alt Right Rally Last Week

Do We Need Police?

A former police lieutenant debates an abolitionist.

Diane Goldstein and Jasson Perez

Nurses hold a memorial in Washington DC.

Death by Disinformation: GOP Accomplices to Covid Apocalypse

If your state or city remains unvaccinated, and your neighbors won’t wear masks indoors—you’ve got a problem.

Gregg Gonsalves for The Nation

The ‘Creative Chaos’ of Gloria Richardson (1922–2021)

The civil rights activist was a militant advocate for her community as well as a canny strategist.

Barbara Smith

The Media’s Climate Blind Spot Is Geographic

When climate coverage ignores the Global South, it’s bad for everyone.

Saleemul Huq and Mark Hertsgaard

Column

From a High-School Cheerleader, a Lesson in Free Speech

As school resumes, the Supreme Court’s decision in the most significant student free speech case in decades reverberates across the country.

Elie Mystal

If “Roe v. Wade” Is Overturned, the Future Will Be Worse Than the Past

When abortion was illegal, there was no organized, aggressive antiabortion movement with a wing of violent fanatics.

Katha Pollitt

Unintended Consequences

Calvin Trillin

Feature

Seeing the Climate Crisis Through the Eyes of Henry Thoreau

“I walk toward one of our ponds,” Thoreau wrote in “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?”

Wen Stephenson

The Tents of Venice Beach

This summer, thanks in part to the spread of Airbnb properties, one of Los Angeles's most expensive neighborhoods filled up with tents housing displaced locals.

Sasha Abramsky

The Anti-Asian Roots of Today’s Anti-Immigrant Politics

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

Mari Uyehara