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Big Heat and Big Oil

July 24, 2023 New Yorker cover
July 24, 2023

Big Heat and Big Oil
by Bill McKibben

A rapid end to burning fossil fuel would arrest the heating that has caused extreme damage in recent weeks; and that rapid end is possible.

We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse

July 4, 2022 New Yorker cover
July 4, 2022

We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse
by Jia Tolentino

We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy.

The High Cost of Georgia’s Restrictive Voting Bills

March 29, 2021 New Yorker cover
March 29, 2021

The High Cost of Georgia’s Restrictive Voting Bills
by Jelani Cobb

Racist policies are bad for business, as the state’s own history can attest.

Not Insane: An economical Republican idea.

March 23, 2009
March 23, 2009

Not Insane
An economical Republican idea.

by Hendrik Hertzberg