Print Magazine October 5/12, 2020, Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial The New Look of ‘The Nation’ Our print magazine’s relationship to the world we cover has changed—now so have we. D.D. Guttenplan Cancel the Presidential Debates—Permanently We’d gain precious minutes of our lives that we might otherwise be tempted to waste. Ed Burmila Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe. Bill McKibben Decoding a Homeland Security Leak An intelligence report on threats to the 2020 election, translated into plain English. Ken Klippenstein A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office Postcards for Democracy! Because we need the Postal Service on Election Day and every day. Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe That Was David Graeber The anthropologist who coined “the 99 percent” and “bullshit jobs” died at age 59. Malcolm Harris Column Melania Trump Really Doesn’t Care A new book by her ex–best friend shows how the first lady sold her soul. Katha Pollitt If You Wait Until Election Day to Vote, You’re Already Too Late The only way Democrats can prevent Trump from stealing the election is if overwhelming numbers vote early—and in person. Elie Mystal At a Military Cemetery, Trump Reflects on His Only War Hero Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the October 5/12, 2020, Issue Neoliberalism isn’t working… The real Norma Rae… Our Readers Feature Mitch McConnell Defends His Turf Can a political newcomer unseat Kentucky’s most aggressive campaigner? Bob Moser First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas’s Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented. Sonia Shah In the UK, Climate Isn’t a Political Issue. That’s a Problem. The choice we face in responding to the climate crisis is between a just transition—and just a transition. Daniel Judt Books & the Arts Orlando Patterson and the Postcolonial Predicament Out of the ruins of colonialism and empire, the sociologist insisted we could fashion a more egalitarian and liberated future. Adom Getachew Tea Natalie Shapero Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College? The system that is nobody’s first choice. Michael Kazin Apocryphal Christopher Phelps Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 See All x
The New Look of ‘The Nation’ Our print magazine’s relationship to the world we cover has changed—now so have we. D.D. Guttenplan
Cancel the Presidential Debates—Permanently We’d gain precious minutes of our lives that we might otherwise be tempted to waste. Ed Burmila
Vote as if the Climate and the Future of Humanity Depend on It—Because They Do Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe. Bill McKibben
Decoding a Homeland Security Leak An intelligence report on threats to the 2020 election, translated into plain English. Ken Klippenstein
A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office Postcards for Democracy! Because we need the Postal Service on Election Day and every day. Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe
That Was David Graeber The anthropologist who coined “the 99 percent” and “bullshit jobs” died at age 59. Malcolm Harris
Melania Trump Really Doesn’t Care A new book by her ex–best friend shows how the first lady sold her soul. Katha Pollitt
If You Wait Until Election Day to Vote, You’re Already Too Late The only way Democrats can prevent Trump from stealing the election is if overwhelming numbers vote early—and in person. Elie Mystal
Letters From the October 5/12, 2020, Issue Neoliberalism isn’t working… The real Norma Rae… Our Readers
Mitch McConnell Defends His Turf Can a political newcomer unseat Kentucky’s most aggressive campaigner? Bob Moser
First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror Climate change made Hurricane Dorian a monster that pummeled the Bahamas’s Haitian minority. Human cruelty made its aftermath brutal. Both could have been prevented. Sonia Shah
In the UK, Climate Isn’t a Political Issue. That’s a Problem. The choice we face in responding to the climate crisis is between a just transition—and just a transition. Daniel Judt
Orlando Patterson and the Postcolonial Predicament Out of the ruins of colonialism and empire, the sociologist insisted we could fashion a more egalitarian and liberated future. Adom Getachew
Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College? The system that is nobody’s first choice. Michael Kazin