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How to Solve a Suicide How to Solve a Suicide

Step one: I certainly didn’t do it.

Aug 20, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow

How the US Exported Its Border Around the World

How the US Exported Its Border Around the World How the US Exported Its Border Around the World

Todd Miller’s new book examines the massive industrial complex that sustains and influences the lines that divide the globe.

Aug 20, 2019 / Aaron Bady

Verwoerd assassination

The Truth Behind the Assassination of the South African PM The Truth Behind the Assassination of the South African PM

When my relative stabbed PM Hendrik Verwoerd to death, he was described as a “madman”—but he was really trying to bring down apartheid.

Aug 16, 2019 / Nikos Konstandaras

Newsroom.

Media Companies Are (Still) Failing When It Comes to Diversity Media Companies Are (Still) Failing When It Comes to Diversity

We all need to do better—and that includes The Nation.

Aug 15, 2019 / D.D. Guttenplan

Heterosexual and Miserable

Heterosexual and Miserable Heterosexual and Miserable

Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, a sprawling sexual biography of a trio of women, is the latest flawed attempt to chronicle the country’s changing mores.

Aug 15, 2019 / Marie Solis

The Boycott’s Abolitionist Roots

The Boycott’s Abolitionist Roots The Boycott’s Abolitionist Roots

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.

Aug 14, 2019 / Willy Blackmore

Don’t Let the Trump Administration Rewrite Emma Lazarus

Don’t Let the Trump Administration Rewrite Emma Lazarus Don’t Let the Trump Administration Rewrite Emma Lazarus

The Statue of Liberty poem “The New Colossus” was written as a radical call to welcome all immigrants—not just the wealthy and connected.

Aug 14, 2019 / John Nichols

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

A Glib Sociopath on Why a Gun Ban Simply Won’t Work A Glib Sociopath on Why a Gun Ban Simply Won’t Work

Sure, you can ban assault rifles—the next mass murderer will just drop anvils on people.

Aug 13, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow

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Letters From the August 26-September 2, 2019, Issue Letters From the August 26-September 2, 2019, Issue

Eyes wide open… The other stain… Sanders’s exceptionalism?… Human rights v. propaganda (web only)…

Aug 13, 2019 / Our Readers and Omar Barghouti

John Ratcliffe Congress Mueller

John Ratcliffe as a Director of National Intelligence Nominee John Ratcliffe as a Director of National Intelligence Nominee

He was loyal to Trump, thus the White House was sure He was right for the post he’d be getting. But his résumé, even when padded, was thin. They persist in forgetting the vetting.

Aug 13, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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