Good Riddance, Tom Price. But What About the Other Grifters?
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is out. The Treasury Secretary and the EPA administrator should go next.
John NicholsCities
From Free Lunch to Public Banks, These Cities Are Giving Us Hope
Dispatches from the Urban Resistance: Alameda to Elyria and beyond.
Jimmy TobiasElection 2016
Why American Democracy Has Descended Into Collective Hysteria
We are a great power in decline—but neither party has a clue what to do about it.
William GreiderHousing and Homelessness
When Growing Old Means Living in Your Car, Working in an Amazon Warehouse
An interview with Nomadland author Jessica Bruder on America’s new, precarious old age.
Astra TaylorLatest From The Nation
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Hélio Oiticica’s Place for People
The Brazilian artist’s manipulations of color and space became a way for him to challenge society’s inequalities.
Miguel Salazar
September 28, 2017 Foreign Policy
Bernie Sanders Opened A New Foreign-Policy Debate
September 28, 2017 Jobs
How Would ‘Medicare for All’ Help Health-Care Workers?
September 28, 2017 Humor
Normal-America Land
September 28, 2017 Donald Trump
A Professional Athlete’s Reply to Trump
September 28, 2017 Torture
Trump Is Inviting America Into the Torture Chamber
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Politics
This Is What a Socialist Looks Like
In a signature speech at the Labour Party conference, Jeremy Corbyn laid out an agenda to return power to the people.
D.D. Guttenplan
Puerto Rico Needs Massive Emergency Aid Now—and an End to Austerity
The island has become a target not only for rapacious vulture funds but also for exponents of Katrina-style “disaster capitalism.”
Ed Morales
How Would ‘Medicare for All’ Help Health-Care Workers?
Without robust worker protections built in to single-payer legislation, health-care workers will continue to be undervalued.
Michelle ChenNation Voices
Politics & Sports
Taking a Knee Is Not About Abstract Unity but Racial Justice
As NFL owners join these protests, it’s critical to not let Colin Kaepernick’s message get lost.
Dave ZirinFor the NFL, It Was ‘Choose-Your-Side Sunday’
Donald Trump thought targeting NFL players with his racialized venom would be smart politics. He was wrong.
Dave ZirinThe Fragile, Toxic Masculinity of Donald Trump
His comments about NFL players reveal just how divisive and narcissistic the president really is.
Dave Zirin
Culture
Speaking of the ‘Female Gaze’
In today’s confused, commercial, and not-quite-intellectual environment, the phrase “female gaze” functions in varied ways, according to its users’ needs.
Alina Cohen
Alberto Giacometti and Alice Neel, Face to Face
The two artists have more in common than it might seem.
Barry Schwabsky
Requiem for Zeitgeist
A newly discovered short story, published here for the first time anywhere.
Kurt VonnegutWatch and Listen
Watch: We’re DACA Recipients, but We’re Fighting for All Undocumented Immigrants
These young activists aren’t going to stop until the rights of all 11 million undocumented immigrants are protected.
September 27, 2017
View: The Borderlands’ Human Stain
Photographs that capture the traces of violence that have plagued the US-Mexico border for generations.
July 27, 2017
Watch: VIDEO: People in Denmark Are a Lot Happier Than People in the United States. Here’s Why.
When governments provide benefits and services that allow its citizens to thrive, everyone wins.
July 17, 2017
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