How the Pandemic Changed Young People’s Relationship to Substances
During a year of isolation, many young adults increased their consumption of alcohol and other drugs.
Teresa XieActivism
Documents of the Revolution: Unpublished Che Guevara Letters
The singular Cuban revolutionary’s correspondence reveals his struggles to merge ideology with praxis.
Che GuevaraInequality
What Is College Really Worth?
As the price of college goes up and the value of a degree goes down, are students being given a fair deal?
Rebecca GordonTransgender Rights
Why Transphobia Is at the Heart of the White Power Movement
Gender nonconformity threatens a worldview that is fixated on immutable and antiquated gender roles.
Talia LavinPolitics
West Virginia Activists Are Coming for Joe Manchin
The senator dared progressives to vote him out. They’re taking him up on it.
Aída Chávez
If Liz Cheney’s Assigning Blame for an “Epic Failure” in Afghanistan, She Can Start With Her Father
Dick Cheney created the mess Joe Biden is cleaning up.
John Nichols
Public Education Is Set Up to Fail in the Pandemic
A crisis looms over school reentry. Chronic underinvestment threatens to make it that much worse.
Melody Schreiber
World
As the US Leaves Afghanistan, Anti-War Feminists Push a New Approach to Foreign Policy
There are signs that the Biden administration and mainstream foreign policy groups may be ready to listen, if not embrace a full paradigm shift.
Shreya Chattopadhyay
Assassination, Earthquake, and Storms: Haiti’s Plague Season
For Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the weekend’s earthquake is virtually a gift from God.
Amy Wilentz
There Goes the Neighborhood: Pakistan Is Uneasy Over the Taliban’s Return
Despite their differing responses to the Taliban victory, Pakistanis are united in believing they are not to blame.
Hasan AliNation Voices
Culture
The Liberation of Alice Neel
Her paintings were a site of expression for populist politics and in her art she found something close to freedom from the doldrums of her personal life.
Jillian Steinhauer
Mythos and Cliché: The Fractured History of Los Angeles
Learning from and reckoning with the stories writers tell about a world-historical city.
Kate Wolf
Sandi Tan’s Magical Americana
Her new novel, Lurkers, captures the defiant and surreal exuberance that has defined her work across fiction and film.
Rebecca LiuWatch and Listen
Listen: Bernie’s Big Deal
John Nichols on the budget, plus Francine Prose on Ethel Rosenberg.
July 22, 2021
Listen: The Greatest: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon on Muhammad Ali
The directors of the new Ali documentary talk about bringing a larger-than-life figure back down to earth.
July 20, 2021
View: Mexico Could Soon Become the Largest Legal Marijuana Market in the World
But activists say the law fails to address the widespread pain that decades of militarized enforcement have caused.
February 25, 2021
From the Magazine
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August 23/30, 2021, Issue
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Column
Unintended Consequences By Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Democracy’s Money Problem By Jan-Werner Müller
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Editorial
Do We Need Police? By Diane Goldstein and Jasson Perez
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