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The Republicans Have Become the Party of Organized Violence The Republicans Have Become the Party of Organized Violence

Right now, the GOP views threats of violence as offering a political advantage with no real downside. Normalization of this behavior by President Biden or the media will only make ...

Nov 29, 2021 / Column / Jeet Heer

Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados

At COP 26, A Bigger, Stronger Climate Movement Made Its Mark At COP 26, A Bigger, Stronger Climate Movement Made Its Mark

The new focus on equity in the climate movement will keep the pressure where it belongs: on the Global North.

Nov 29, 2021 / Tina Gerhardt for The Nation

Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation

Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation Gayl Jones’s Epic of Liberation

In her new novel, Jones offers a story of slavery and freedom in the Americas.

Nov 29, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Farah Jasmine Griffin

Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth…

Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth… Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth…

About France’s republican racism.

Nov 29, 2021 / Feature / Gary Younge

Europe’s War on Woke

Europe’s War on Woke Europe’s War on Woke

Why elites across the Atlantic are freaking out about the concept of structural racism.

Nov 29, 2021 / Feature / James McAuley

Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure

Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure

Cohn shows how repeated failures by Democrats and Republicans to get a decent policy through our 18th-century constitutional structure led to the strategy that produced the Afforda...

Nov 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Cooper

John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience

John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience John Rawls and Liberalism’s Selective Conscience

With its doctrine of fairness, A Theory of Justice transformed political philosophy. But what did it leave out? 

Nov 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Olúfémi O. Táíwò

Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune”

Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune” Denis Villeneuve’s Humanistic “Dune”

His adaptation was the first to understand the scale—both intimate and epic—the sci-fi novel required to translate to film.

Nov 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz

No Accounts

No Accounts No Accounts

The new colossus. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of November 22.

Nov 26, 2021 / Steve Brodner

COP OUT 26

COP OUT 26 COP OUT 26

Fossil fools.

Nov 26, 2021 / OppArt / Emma Cook, Rob Rogers, and Matt Wuerker

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