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| Our August 7/14, 2023 Issue |
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| FROM THIS ISSUE |
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| The Left Must Adapt or Die |
| This new era of climatic instability desperately demands a strategy based on the facts of today, not some imagined future. |
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| SAMUEL MILLER MCDONALD for THE NATION |
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| The Psychic Theater of Boots Riley |
| Absurdist, and often darkly funny, I’m a Virgo tells a story of first love, capitalism’s surreal excesses, the contradictions of Black life, and also how much politics a work of art can bear. |
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| Injustice in the Occupied West Bank |
| Following our last cover story, “The Destruction of Masafer Yatta,” which documented the Israeli army’s destruction of a small region in the occupied West Bank—Israel’s largest scale ethnic cleansing since 1967—coauthor Basel Adra was detained last weekend in the occupied West Bank and offered a testimonial to his experience: “I Was Detained by Israeli Soldiers for Reporting on Settler Violence.” Adra has reported fearlessly on the decimation of his Palestinian homeland for the past decade; he was blindfolded and detained after refusing to turn over his recording of a settler attack on Mufagara. The Union of Journalists in Israel has already called Basel’s detention “appalling” and a “serious violation of freedom of the press.” Read about the entirety of his experience here. |
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| Justice Thirty Years Late |
| Jimmy Genrich, who was convicted of the pipe bomb murders of two people in Grand Junction, Col., more than 30 years ago will get a new trial. The judge found the tool-mark evidence used to tie Genrich to the bombings to be unconstitutional. Genrich’s story and this tool-mark evidence was the basis of Meehan Crist and Tim Requarth’s extensive 2018 special investigation-turned-award-winning Nation cover story. They exposed how bogus toolmark forensics have put thousands of people behind bars—despite the findings of multiple federal review panels, which concluded that tool-mark methods are nothing more than pseudoscience.
As the Denver Post reports: “The tool-mark expert could not accurately or reliably say that no other tools could have made the marks on the bombs except Genrich’s tools, the judge ruled. [Judge] Gurley wrote that the introduction of the expert’s unreliable testimony violated Genrich’s constitutional due-process right to a fair trial.” |
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