Next in the Atlantic

THE PLOT TO DROWN ALASKA

It is well under way, and soon the big ballyhoo will begin to extract from Congress the billions needed to build a mammoth Ramparts dam on the Yukon and create a lake as big as New Jersey. Paul Brooks, who last summer toured the Yukon Flats, tells why what would be lost is so much greater than what would be gained.

SLAVES FOR RENT

Truman Moore, after four years of investigating, found that thousands of American migratory workers live and work today under conditions of neglect, deprivation, and hopelessness that reincarnate The Grapes of Wrath.

Have the Undertakers Reformed?

With the smile and scalpel that made her American Way of Death a literary and sociological success, Jessica Mitford performs for the Atlantic a postmortem and finds that her expose has worked changes and set off dirges in the burial business.

Red Rift: Part Two

Following this month’s studies of the split within Communism, two experts analyze its impact in Latin America and what it means for U.S. policy.