Print Magazine September 20/27, 2021, Issue Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial The Staggering Costs of Sexual Harassment Settlements offer a semblance of justice, but they don’t make victims of sexual harassment whole. Bryce Covert For a Moment, the World Glimpsed the Truth of the US Occupation The final days of the US occupation of Afghanistan were a nightmarish embodiment of the chaos, corruption, and violence of the last 20 years. Ali M. Latifi Congress Has the Power to Rein In Presidential Military Overreach The commander in chief’s power to invade and inflict carnage is far too expansive. Danny Sjursen and Lawrence Wilkerson for The Nation Column Animal Dewormer as Covid Preventative Calvin Trillin How Andrew Cuomo Hurt Men, Too His abuses targeted women and men—the latter more insidiously. Alexis Grenell How Cheerleaders of the Forever Wars Got Away With Murder In reckoning with post-9/11 fantasies and lies, don’t forget the role of the press. Jeet Heer Barbara Lee Has to Vote Twenty years after her historic vote against invading Afghanistan, the California congresswoman is still speaking up and taking action. Aída Chávez Letters Letters From the September 20/27, 2021, Issue Library science… Imperial tragedies… Our Readers Feature The Costs of 20 Years of War Two decades of war caused the deaths of nearly 1 million people and will cost US taxpayers more than $8 trillion. Neta Crawford Gitmo’s Forgotten Ex-Detainees They were freed from Guantánamo, but they’re still searching for a home. Clair MacDougall Why America Goes to War Money drives the US military machine. Andrew Cockburn How the War on Terror Created the “Muslim American” Before 9/11, Muslims were just another of this country’s many religious groups. After, they became a targeted, racialized minority. Moustafa Bayoumi The War on Terror: 20 Years of Bloodshed and Delusion From the beginning, the War on Terror merged red-hot vengeance with calculated opportunism. Millions are still paying the price. Tariq Ali Books & the Arts What Is Owed William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen’s case for reparations. William P. Jones The Politics of Viruses Carl Zimmer and what popular science writing often misses. Danielle Carr In the Shadow of 9/11 Did the War on Terror put our democracy at risk—or reveal its flaws? Samuel Moyn 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 Staggering Costs of Sexual Harassment Settlements offer a semblance of justice, but they don’t make victims of sexual harassment whole. Bryce Covert
For a Moment, the World Glimpsed the Truth of the US Occupation The final days of the US occupation of Afghanistan were a nightmarish embodiment of the chaos, corruption, and violence of the last 20 years. Ali M. Latifi
Congress Has the Power to Rein In Presidential Military Overreach The commander in chief’s power to invade and inflict carnage is far too expansive. Danny Sjursen and Lawrence Wilkerson for The Nation
How Andrew Cuomo Hurt Men, Too His abuses targeted women and men—the latter more insidiously. Alexis Grenell
How Cheerleaders of the Forever Wars Got Away With Murder In reckoning with post-9/11 fantasies and lies, don’t forget the role of the press. Jeet Heer
Barbara Lee Has to Vote Twenty years after her historic vote against invading Afghanistan, the California congresswoman is still speaking up and taking action. Aída Chávez
The Costs of 20 Years of War Two decades of war caused the deaths of nearly 1 million people and will cost US taxpayers more than $8 trillion. Neta Crawford
Gitmo’s Forgotten Ex-Detainees They were freed from Guantánamo, but they’re still searching for a home. Clair MacDougall
How the War on Terror Created the “Muslim American” Before 9/11, Muslims were just another of this country’s many religious groups. After, they became a targeted, racialized minority. Moustafa Bayoumi
The War on Terror: 20 Years of Bloodshed and Delusion From the beginning, the War on Terror merged red-hot vengeance with calculated opportunism. Millions are still paying the price. Tariq Ali
In the Shadow of 9/11 Did the War on Terror put our democracy at risk—or reveal its flaws? Samuel Moyn