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Sep 22, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Allison Dean |Ronald Purser |Samuel McDonald |Lily Sánchez
Current Affairs isAd-Freeand depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. Journalist Alyssa Hardy on how we can appreciate and enjoy clothes while still being determined to change the ways they are made and marketed.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Sean McDowell |Samuel McDonald
Current Affairs isAd-Freeand depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. Journalist Donald Cohen on how turning public goods over to private companies is a terrible idea that causes us to have to pay for things we already own.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Samuel McDonald |Richard Eskow |Michael Carter |Ryan Bedsaul
To reminisce about the “long 1990s” is to remember a brief end to history, when the towering gingerbread house of liberal democracy finally enclosed us all. This was the decade when the value of investing in finance capital and divesting from the public good went fully mainstream. The slow-falling scythe blade severing individuals from each other, institutions from their purpose, and the myriad forms of sacredness and ways of life from capitalist realism was blissfully welcomed.
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Jul 22, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Samuel McDonald |Sarah Baum |Mike Konczal |Katherine Franke
Print MagazineEditorialThe Left Must Adapt or DieThis new era of climatic instability desperately demands a strategy based on the facts of today, not some imagined future. Samuel Miller McDonald for The Nation The Anti-Trans Crusade Comes to New JerseyI returned to my New Jersey middle school to watch the school board support a dangerous anti-trans policy. Sarah Baum “Bidenomics” vs.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Samuel McDonald |Mychal Denzel Smith
This article appears in the August 7/14, 2023 issue. All of recorded history has occurred within the latter half of the Holocene epoch. The first written records appear around 5,000 years ago, and the first cities just over 4,000 years before that. They are all contained in a sliver smaller than 4 percent of Homo sapiens’ full history.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
thenation.com | John Nichols |Samuel McDonald |Ryan Zickgraf |Kate Wagner
Twenty years ago, in June of 2003, B’Tselem, Israel’s largest human rights organization, complained that Israel was “enshrining racism in law.” Objecting to temporary legislation that rescinded the right of Israeli citizens who had married residents of the Occupied Territories to establish their home in Israel, the group said, “This bill is racist.” Two years later, when the Israeli Knesset enacted a law restricting the family unification of Israeli citizens and residents (including residents...
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May 29, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Arjun S. Byju |Samuel McDonald
Current Affairs isAd-Freeand depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition Details Can there possibly be any value in caring about something as seemingly frivolous as personal style and taste in clothing?
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Apr 29, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.org | Lily Sánchez |Samuel McDonald |Alex Skopic
Jono Shaffer is a legendary labor organizer who was instrumental in the Justice for Janitors campaign. J4J successfully unionized Los Angeles janitorial workers under unbelievably difficult conditions—the janitors were undocumented and worked for contractors rather than buildings themselves, so they were easily fired. J4J built a movement that successfully pressured building owners to respect the rights of cleaning staff.
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Apr 1, 2023 | 
mothernature.news | Abby Saks |Phoebe Barr |Samuel McDonald |Matthew Miles Goodrich
On March 20, the final installment of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) landed with all the force of a pebble hurled into the sea.
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Mar 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Samuel McDonald |Mychal Denzel Smith
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the “summary for policymakers” section of the group’s forthcoming Synthesis Report, the final portion of its massive Sixth Assessment Report. Two messages in particular have stood out in both media coverage and the report itself.
