In Ohio, Trump Rallies the Deplorables
For months, Trump has tried to define the campaign as a culture war against elites. Thanks to Clinton’s remarks, that effort has suddenly acquired a patina of plausibility.
D.D. GuttenplanRacism and Discrimination
Black as We Wanna Be
Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.
Matthew McKnightElection 2016
This Has Been a Really Dangerous Week in Politics
The specter of political violence is looming large thanks to right-wing rhetoric.
George ZornickElection 2016
The Only Way for Muslim Americans to Be Considered Patriotic: Stay Silent
From Khizr Khan to Fareed Zakaria, Muslims who speak out are smeared as un-American.
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Violence Continues in Colombia as Peace Accords Advance
The country’s long civil war may soon end—but not without triggering a violent backlash from the narco-elite and the paramilitary groups they command.
Greg Grandin
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The Federal Poverty Line Is Too Damn Low
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‘Normalizing’ Trump
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Donald Trump’s Plans to Help Women Are Ridiculously Regressive
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Oliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’
Stone on his new Snowden biopic, Dave Zirin on Colin Kaepernick, and Margo Jefferson on Negroland.
Start Making Sense and Jon WienerThe film Snowden, which opens this weekend, was turned down by all of the big Hollywood studios. Director Oliver Stone explains what it took to make his film about the NSA whistle-blower—and why Edward Snowden deserves a presidential pardon. Plus: Nation Sports Editor Dave Zirin says Colin Kaepernick’s protest against… Continue Reading >
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Election 2016
Will US Hawks Again Thwart Yet Another Chance to Diminish the New Cold War in Syria and Ukraine?
Pro-détente diplomacy is being fiercely opposed by detractors from Washington to Kiev.
Stephen F. Cohen
‘Normalizing’ Trump
Despite all evidence to the contrary, the media insistently portray Trump as a normal candidate.
Eric Alterman
Donald Trump’s Plans to Help Women Are Ridiculously Regressive
Funding for “maternity leave,” plus a child-care tax credit that favors the rich, are programs targeted at the well-off white women who are abandoning the GOP.
Joan WalshBooks & the Arts
A Lion in Winter
Jürgen Habermas remains an indispensable guide to the unfinished project of democratic consciousness and enlightenment.
Peter E. Gordon
Behind the Sun
In four books about Syria and Egypt, the narrative arc of revolution bends toward disappointment.
Ursula Lindsey
John Berger: The Human, the Artist
In The Seasons in Quincy, we learn little about the former and attempts to celebrate the latter collapse into the elegiac.
Anakwa Dwamena
Watch and Listen
Watch: What Is It Like to Be an Abortion Provider in an Anti-Choice State?
Watch: Leah Torres explains why she works in Utah.
August 29, 2016
Watch: Top 5 Craziest Moments of the 2016 Campaign
Spoiler alert: They’re mostly about Donald Trump.
September 9, 2016
Listen: Can Clinton Win Over the White Working Class?
Joan Walsh on the Democrats’ dilemma, Amy Wilentz on the Clinton Foundation, and Dr. Leah Torres on abortion in Utah.
September 8, 2016
