About That Kissinger Quote Neil Gorsuch Likes…
A joke? Who was it that said the use of jokes “points the way to their future uses”? It’s Götterdämmerung time.
Greg GrandinPolitics
Everything Donald Trump Did in His Second Week as President
A botched military raid in Yemen, a 2-for-1 regulatory gimmick, and the appointment of a new deputy director at the CIA who oversaw torture.
Zoë Carpenter and George ZornickMental Health
Donald Trump’s Power Is Scary, Not His Mental Health
Psychiatrists are speaking out to warn of the dangers of Trump’s instability, but politicizing mental health is a mistake.
Miriam MarkowitzMedia
Words in the Age of Trump
Along with a new president, Americans are confronted with coming to grips with a new vocabulary.
Leslie SavanLatest From The Nation
Today 3:56 pm Supreme Court
Senator Tammy Baldwin Just Destroyed Scott Walker on Twitter
The Wisconsin governor apparently didn’t like it, because he threw a 16-tweet-long tantrum in response.
John Nichols
Today 6:00 am Architecture
Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity
Yesterday 2:46 pm Politics
Stop With the Conspiracy Theories—Trump Is Bad Enough
From the Magazine
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“There are few places where one can still read courageous journalism. The Nation is one." —Alec Baldwin
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January 16-23, 2017, Issue
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Pax Trumpanica?
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Trump Is Capitalizing on the Anxiety Caused by the End of Steady Employment
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Books & the Arts
Polanyi In Our Times
By Nikil Saval
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Tracking the Trump Administration
Stop With the Conspiracy Theories—Trump Is Bad Enough
It takes a hefty dose of indifference to be less concerned about something actually happening than about a plot “potentially” unfolding in the shadows.
Aaron MatéLeaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination
If signed, the order would create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity.
Sarah PosnerAn Actual American War Criminal May Become Our Second-Ranking Diplomat
Elliott Abrams spent the Reagan years abetting genocide—now, he has been floated as Trump’s deputy secretary of state.
Eric AltermanPolitics
Republicans Stole a Supreme Court Seat From Obama—and Are Putting Another Scalia In It
Neil Gorsuch will help Trump wage war on voting rights.
Ari Berman
Why We Support Keith Ellison for DNC Chair
He will address the party’s—and the nation’s—crisis by aligning Democrats more closely with movements for social and economic justice.
The Nation
Senate Democrats Can Block Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
If Democrats can hold onto 41 of their 48 votes, they can postpone a final floor vote indefinitely.
William YeomansNation Voices
the resistance
Yemeni Bodega Owners Strike to Say ‘We Are America’
Among the thousands who gathered in Brooklyn were many whose families had been directly affected by Trump’s immigration bans.
Julianne HingProtests Are Putting Trump on Notice: You’re in for a Fight
The opposition isn’t going to sit idly by while Trump demonizes immigrants and violates the Constitution.
Mark HertsgaardNew York’s Immigrants Aren’t Done With Trump
Are the outspoken protests by working-class immigrants the beginning of a powerful new front against Trump?
Michelle Chen
Culture
Kerry James Marshall’s Enigmatic Authority
It seems a mistake to call him a realist in any but the loosest sense.
Barry Schwabsky
Adam Thirlwell on the Many Moods of Henry Green
For the English novelist, life itself was a deadly business.
Adam Thirlwell
Jane Jacobs’s Radical Vision of Humanity
For the great urbanist and social critic, the planning of cities was always an ad hoc affair.
Rebecca Tuhus-DubrowWatch and Listen
View: Photos of Resistance: Inside the DC Women’s March
Over 500,000 people flooded the streets of the nation’s capital to protest everything President Trump stands for.
January 22, 2017
Watch: Homeless in the Shadow of Santa Barbara’s Mansions
For hundreds of families, home is a car in a quiet parking lot.
December 20, 2016
View: These Photos Show the People Who Turn a Cotton Plant Into Your Jeans
Following the path of cotton from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall.
December 12, 2016
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