Bye-Bye, Bill O’Reilly
On and off screen, Bill O’Reilly helped create the sexist, racist, right-wing culture that was the Fox News brand.
Joan WalshEconomic Policy
Donald Trump’s ‘Buy American’ Initiative Is a Lie
His executive order is full of loopholes designed to protect Wall Street and multinational corporations—at the expense of American workers.
John NicholsPublic Schools
What Betsy DeVos’s Emphasis on ‘Choice’ Means for School Segregation
The education secretary’s policies stand to make divisions in our schools and neighborhoods worse, not better.
Michelle ChenBooks & the Arts
Inside the Birth of a Trump-Inspired Intellectual Magazine
Reading through American Affairs, one gets the sense that avoiding policy questions is as much a strategy as a politics.
Gideon Lewis-KrausLatest From The Nation
Yesterday 1:27 pm Cold War
Why the New Cold War Is More Dangerous Than the Preceding One
Questionable but orthodox Cold War narratives make actual war with Russia more likely than during its 40-year predecessor.
Stephen F. Cohen
Yesterday 6:00 am Environmental Activism
On April 29, We March for the Future
April 18, 2017 Elections
Trump to Erdogan: Congrats On Your Dictatorship!
April 18, 2017 Media Analysis
The New Trump Trope
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April 24-May 1, 2017, Issue
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You Are Now Paying Internet Companies to Sell Your Browsing History to Advertisers
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Books & the Arts
Le Pen’s Long Shadow
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Why Trump’s Climate-Wrecking Agenda Could Fail
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Policing the Colony: From the American Revolution to Ferguson
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Books & the Arts
The Red Emigrant
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Algeria’s New Imprint
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Fox’s Absurd Unreality Show Is Now Aided and Abetted by Trump’s Undersized Hands
By Eric Alterman
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Peoples Climate March
On April 29, We March for the Future
We’ll either save or doom the planet during the Trump administration. Don’t sit the Peoples Climate Mobilization out.
Bill McKibben[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is hard to avoid hyperbole when you talk about global warming. It is, after all, the biggest thing humans have ever done, and by a very large margin. In the past year, we’ve decimated the Great Barrier Reef, which is the largest living structure on Earth. In the drought-stricken… Continue Reading >
Nation Voices
Politics
The Democratic Party Must Finally Abandon Centrism
Bernie Sanders and Tom Perez are working together to build a party that puts economic populism at the top of the agenda.
John Nichols
The New Trump Trope
In media coverage after the Syrian air strike, the conventional wisdom shifted to believing that the president’s relations with Russia stink.
Leslie Savan
Jon Ossoff’s Campaign Is an Expensive Sideshow
The 30-year-old Democrat raised a ton of money and came close to 50 percent—but his near miss has few implications for the party nationwide.
D.D. Guttenplan
Culture
Inside the Birth of a Trump-Inspired Intellectual Magazine
Reading through American Affairs, one gets the sense that avoiding policy questions is as much a strategy as a politics.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
What America's 19th-century Reformers and Radicals Missed
A new book on the antebellum period captures the dangers of confusing self-improvement with institutional change.
Brenda Wineapple
Hwang Jungeun’s Noisy, Crowded Space
The novel One Hundred Shadows achieves dense social meaning with spare prose.
E. Tammy KimWatch and Listen
Listen: Tom Frank: Democrats Had No Idea How Much People Didn’t Like Clinton
Plus: Amy Wilentz on Ivanka and Jared; Ari Berman on voting rights under Justice Neil Gorsuch.
April 13, 2017
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
Watch: Clean In: How Hotel Workers Fought For a Union—And Won
A feminism for the 99 percent has been forged by working-class immigrant women who confronted Harvard’s first female president and Sheryl Sandberg.
March 8, 2017
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