The Revolution Against Low-Wage Work

Workers used the additional resources of the past year to demand better pay and conditions.

Mike Konczal

The Front Lines of Omicron

With the pandemic returning to a state of emergency, we need to finally fix what was already broken in our society.

Adam Gaffney

What Conservative Justices Talk About When They Talk About Religious Liberty

The conservative majority on the US Supreme Court has honed a new, radical approach to religious liberty, the significance of which cannot be overstated.

Katherine Franke for The Nation

Remembering the Clarion Call of bell hooks

My recollections of the late scholar, who revolutionized her fields.

Patricia J. Williams

My Neighbor Protested His Family’s Expulsion From Its Home—Now He’s in an Israeli Prison

Murad Attieh has been in prison for 133 days for what many believe is an effort to criminalize our movement.

Mohammed El-Kurd

When Will David Brooks Admit That Conservatism Paved the Way for Trump?

The New York Times columnist’s nostalgia whitewashes a nastier and much more consequential history.

Jeet Heer

How the Left Alienates Jews

Jewish voices are too often excluded from precisely the conversations they should be leading.

Alexis Grenell

About 2021

Calvin Trillin

Letters From the January 17/24, 2022, Issue

Josephine Baker's French exile… Climate wars… A report worth reading… Build Back Better, please…

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