The Nation

Everything that made rural America uniquely vulnerable to Covid-19 still exists. And now, a new threat from a well-known pathogen, influenza, is brewing in America’s rural heartland. https://bit.ly/3yGtiOb

Cities should tax multibillion dollar conglomerates gunning with private equity money to build affordable housing in places like New York or investing in climate resilience in places like Miami. Instead, they let them loose on their developing districts like private Robert Moseses. https://bit.ly/4bVHiBT

The NYCLU has filed suit to overturn the law that bans thousands on the New York State sex offense registry from entering school zones. The law's language is sweeping—applying to some whose offenses weren’t sexual. https://bit.ly/3V403fB

If the goal is to show that the resources of the Beyoncé machine can create and blend any style of music, mission accomplished. But beyond that, one wonders what was lost in this appeal to country music legitimacy. https://bit.ly/3TZEk9v

Lina Khan and the newly invigorated FTC have been all over the headlines lately. https://bit.ly/4amQDTC

Over the past decade, I thought I had finally figured out how to earn a living as a disabled person. But in 2020, when the pandemic shook all of our lives, progressive news sites began shutting down in droves... https://bit.ly/41lFONg

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The Nation is looking for full-time interns! The Nation Fund for Independent Journalism’s editorial internship program offers two internship sessions per year. Editorial interns are placed at The Nation for the duration of their session and receive a comprehensive immersion into The Nation and TheNation.com’s editorial processes. Interns’ primary responsibilities include fact-checking for the magazine and website, providing research support to Nation writers and editors, and assisting with production on TheNation.com. Interns are not expected to arrive with fact-checking or digital media experience and will be extensively trained in those areas, though a familiarity with The Nation and the range of issues covered by the magazine is essential. Interns also participate in educational seminars with journalists, academics, and activists who come by our offices to speak to interns about their work. Recent guests have included Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner, author Vivian Gornick, critic Emily Nussbaum, and writer/academic Melissa Harris-Perry. Interns are encouraged to suggest people they would like to come in and speak with the group. The internship is full-time, five days a week. (Interns work 35 hours per week.) Please note interns are expected to come into the office two days a week. While we will consider applications from candidates who prefer to work remotely, we will give preference to those able to be in the New York metropolitan area during the internship. Upon acceptance, applicants may discuss their work options with the program director. TO APPLY, PLEASE HEAD TO OUR SUBMITTABLE (LINKED BELOW). THIS IS THE ONLY WAY WE WILL BE TAKING APPLICATIONS. https://lnkd.in/eFcKM6RY

"I came into McKinsey believing in a certain 'technocratic utopianism' that animates the firm. I left McKinsey radicalized against capitalism and the amorality profit-seeking at its center," says Garrison Lovely. Read his tell-all on the morally bankrupt world of McKinsey.

Garrison Lovely joined McKinsey & Company hoping to change the world for the better. But he quickly learned that "not only does McKinsey fail to make the world better—it often colludes with those who make the world worse.” Breaking perhaps McKinsey’s strongest taboo—their code of silence—his latest cover story for The Nation offers us a rare look behind the curtain of the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret culture of one of the world’s most powerful management consulting firms: