Print Magazine October 31/November 7, 2022, Issue Cover art by: Brian Stauffer Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial Trump Toadies Control the Republican Party The Republican Party’s official agenda is a capitulation to extremists and a display of distortion and aggression. Chris Lehmann Across the Country, Students Are Fighting for Abortion Access An October day of action is the latest sign that a new generation, emboldened by the overturn of Roe, is surging into political organizing. Amy Littlefield We Should Be Fighting for a World Without Adoption If poverty, racism, and health care inequities were properly redressed, adoption would be a last resort. Michele Merritt Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity. Kai Bird for The Nation The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers Notes from Inflation Economics 101. Robert Pollin Column Gallia Est Omnis Divisa in Partes Tres Calvin Trillin Banning Books Is a Threat to Public Education To say nothing of the fact that we don’t value reading enough in the first place! Katha Pollitt Democrats Still Aren’t Trying Hard Enough to Reclaim the Judiciary If Democrats really want to take back the judicial branch, they can start by ditching an old tradition: the blue slip. Elie Mystal Letters Letters From the October 31/November 7, 2022, Issue Principled jurisprudence… Accountability for Ghouta… Our Readers Feature I Wanted a Boyfriend. My Life Coach Told Me to Become a Commodity. Life coaching offered the energy and promise I was looking for—until I learned what it wanted from me in return. Geoffrey Mak China and Russia Are Not Mirror Images Both countries pose major challenges to US foreign policy, but understanding their differences is crucial to reforming the global system. Jake Werner The Right’s Religious Liberty Agenda Is on a Collision Course With Labor Law Religious employers have found a way to give themselves cover for blatant discrimination—and the Supreme Court is ready to back them up. Bryce Covert Books & the Arts The Ghosts of “Irma Vep” Olivier Assayas's clever and beguiling HBO miniseries responds to the state of cinema in the age of streaming. Vikram Murthi MI5’s War Against British Intellectuals and Artists The British Security Service’s futile record of harassment and surveillance. Richard J. Evans How the United States Fails the Chronically Ill In her new book, the poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke charts her and many Americans’ struggle with chronic illness. Libby Watson Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 See All x
Trump Toadies Control the Republican Party The Republican Party’s official agenda is a capitulation to extremists and a display of distortion and aggression. Chris Lehmann
Across the Country, Students Are Fighting for Abortion Access An October day of action is the latest sign that a new generation, emboldened by the overturn of Roe, is surging into political organizing. Amy Littlefield
We Should Be Fighting for a World Without Adoption If poverty, racism, and health care inequities were properly redressed, adoption would be a last resort. Michele Merritt
Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity. Kai Bird for The Nation
Banning Books Is a Threat to Public Education To say nothing of the fact that we don’t value reading enough in the first place! Katha Pollitt
Democrats Still Aren’t Trying Hard Enough to Reclaim the Judiciary If Democrats really want to take back the judicial branch, they can start by ditching an old tradition: the blue slip. Elie Mystal
Letters From the October 31/November 7, 2022, Issue Principled jurisprudence… Accountability for Ghouta… Our Readers
I Wanted a Boyfriend. My Life Coach Told Me to Become a Commodity. Life coaching offered the energy and promise I was looking for—until I learned what it wanted from me in return. Geoffrey Mak
China and Russia Are Not Mirror Images Both countries pose major challenges to US foreign policy, but understanding their differences is crucial to reforming the global system. Jake Werner
The Right’s Religious Liberty Agenda Is on a Collision Course With Labor Law Religious employers have found a way to give themselves cover for blatant discrimination—and the Supreme Court is ready to back them up. Bryce Covert
The Ghosts of “Irma Vep” Olivier Assayas's clever and beguiling HBO miniseries responds to the state of cinema in the age of streaming. Vikram Murthi
MI5’s War Against British Intellectuals and Artists The British Security Service’s futile record of harassment and surveillance. Richard J. Evans
How the United States Fails the Chronically Ill In her new book, the poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke charts her and many Americans’ struggle with chronic illness. Libby Watson