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Our January, 2024 Issue
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FEATURED
The Blue-Blood Families That Found Fortunes in the Opium Trade
After Britain, the country that benefited the most from the China trade was the United States—and some of its oldest families were the ones leading the way.
AMITAV GHOSH
FROM THIS ISSUE
We’ve Got to Tax the Rich
Of all the ills afflicting our democracy, the failure to rein in the power of money remains the most egregious.
D.D. GUTTENPLAN
Welcome to 2024, the Year We Stop Trump’s Rolling Insurrection
January 6, 2021, never ended. We can halt it this year. If we don’t, we may never.
JOAN WALSH FOR THE NATION
“I Always Outwork the Hate”: An Exclusive Interview With Rashida Tlaib
The only Palestinian in Congress talks about Gaza, Biden, and how she keeps going.
JOHN NICHOLS
Palestine Is in Asia: An Asian American Argument for Solidarity
Edward Said’s Orientalism brought a burst of intellectual energy to Asian American liberation. The wider solidarity he called for is even more important today.
VIỆT THANH NGUYEN
The Brilliant Discontents of Lou Reed
A new biography examines the enigma of the musician.
SASHA FRERE-JONES
NEW PODCASTS
The Nation has added two provocative new podcasts to our ever-expanding roster of news programming: American Prestige and Tech Won’t Save Us. Offering fresh perspectives on our tangible and intangible worlds, the complementary programs will challenge conventional wisdom about the figures and forces shaping power, policy, and politics around the globe and in our everyday lives. Filling a niche in the landscape of foreign policy podcasts, American Prestige cohosts Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison beginning with a revolutionary premise: What would US foreign policy look like if the interests of all the people in the world, and not only those of a tiny subset of Americans, were taken into account?

Tech Won’t Save Us host Paris Marx offers a similar challenge to dominant narratives—those of Silicon Valley—by encouraging listeners to think beyond the confines of capitalism, to consider how we can dismantle oppressive technologies and develop technological power for the public good. Subscribe to The Nation’s podcast channel wherever you get your podcasts, and check out our other regular programming and limited-run series here.
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