The Shaming of Paul Ryan Is Now Complete
From silencing debate on guns to backing “textbook-racist” Trump, the GOP “leader” always puts partisanship above principle.
John NicholsActivism
Andrew Cuomo’s BDS Blacklist Is a Clear Violation of the First Amendment
Political boycotts are a form of protected expression. So why is New York’s governor trampling this constitutional right?
Dima KhalidiMental Health
If Black Men Want to Heal Racism’s Wounds, We Can’t Pretend to Be Strong All the Time
We’re proud that we’ve survived. But we should be honest about the costs.
Mychal Denzel SmithSupreme Court
The Supreme Court Won’t Let Obama’s Immigration Executive Action Proceed
The ruling means 4 million undocumented immigrants remain in limbo.
Julianne HingLatest From The Nation
Today 6:13 pm Politics
Alan Grayson Says the House Sit-In for Gun Safety Is About More Than Terror Lists
Reached on the floor of the House, Grayson disputed civil libertarians’ concerns about preventing people on the no-fly list from buying guns.
Joshua Holland
Today 9:00 am Election 2016
Is Donald Trump Actually a Threat to Democracy?
Today 8:00 am Supreme Court
A Supreme Legacy
Today 8:00 am Poverty
Nick Kristof Is Still Wrong About Welfare Reform
Yesterday 2:21 pm Latin America
How Severe Is Venezuela’s Crisis?
Focus on Brexit
Should We Stay or Should We Go? A Debate Over Brexit
Four Brits let us know.
Helen Lewis, Jon Cruddas, Harris Beider and Tariq AliWith MP Jo Cox’s Murder, Britain’s Campaign to Leave the EU Turns Toxic
The demons of xenophobia, resentment, and rage unleashed by Brexit informed the killer’s act.
Maria MargaronisThe Brits Battle Over Brexit
Next week’s referendum on whether to leave the EU is an issue that cuts across traditional lines of ideology or party loyalty.
D.D. GuttenplanFrom the Magazine
-
-
-
150TH ANNIVERSARY OFFER: 268-PAGE COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE PLUS 6 MONTHS OF THE NATION. JUST $15!
-
June 6-13, 2016 Issue
-
Editorial
Michael Ratner, 1943–2016
By David Cole -
Column
When Religious Exemptions Are a Menace to Public Health
By Patricia J. Williams -
Books & the Arts
Don DeLillo’s American Dream
By Jon Baskin
-
Nation Voices
Election 2016
Is Donald Trump Actually a Threat to Democracy?
And what is to be done?
Louis Michael Seidman, Ted Gup and Elinor Langer
What Hillary Clinton Can Learn From Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
Trump and Sanders both communicated leadership through narratives that animated outpourings of enthusiasm that have so far eluded Clinton.
Marshall Ganz and Hahrie Han
The Gutting of the Voting Rights Act Could Decide the 2016 Election
States with new voting restrictions have 70 percent of the electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
Ari BermanBooks & the Arts
15 Short Texts in Search of Hilla Becher
One of the creations of her and her husband’s artistic partnership was the seemingly perfect fusion of their visions.
Jana Prikryl
USPS vs. Congress
If ever there was a time to make a case for the Postal Service’s necessity in American civic, political, and cultural life, it may have already passed.
Nathan Smith
Watch and Listen
Watch: Khalid Says: What Does ‘Transcending Race’ Even Mean?
The hollow language used to celebrate Ali’s legacy.
June 21, 2016
Listen: Start Making Sense: Life and Death in Gay Orlando
Nadine Smith on Gay Orlando before, and after, Saturday’s attack; plus Harold Meyerson on what’s next for Hillary and Bernie, and Adam Hochschild on the Spanish Civil War.
June 16, 2016
View: These Haunting Photos Show the Deadly Absurdity of the US-Mexico Border Wall
A collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo captures the austere brutality of the borderlands.
May 11, 2016
Columnists
