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The Ambition of Kamala Harris Will Serve America Well

Malleable and driven, Joe Biden’s running mate will adapt to the emerging crisis.

Jeet Heer
Working Conditions

Republicans Suddenly Have a Passion for College Football

It’s the one thing that might distract Americans from the abysmal GOP-led response to the pandemic.

Dave Zirin
Activism

Another Charlottesville

I nearly died in the attack that killed Heather Heyer. Three years later, the conditions that led to the violence have not changed.

Aubtin Heydari
Inequality

The Grim World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit

At 76, I knew our world was headed for a dark place decades ago. Did I ever think it would be this bad? Not a chance.

Tom Engelhardt

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Today 10:52 am Election 2020

Kamala Harris Makes History, Many Times Over

The bravery and radicalism of Joe Biden’s choice will become apparent over time.

Joan Walsh
Today 8:30 am

That Will Show Us!

Peter Kuper
Today 5:15 am Coronavirus

Grief in Florida

Gregg DeChirico
Today 5:00 am Criminal Justice

Ending Mass Incarceration Is Only the Beginning

Yesterday 6:54 pm Election 2020

Kamala Harris Will Shred Mike Pence in the Vice Presidential Debate

Yesterday 3:54 pm Social Justice

Representative Barbara Lee: ‘The Public Is With Us’

Yesterday 10:37 am Election 2020

Trump Ramps Up His Assault on Democracy

Yesterday 10:36 am Foreign Policy

The Debate That's Needed on How to Engage With China—Before It’s Too Late

Yesterday 9:37 am Deadline Poet

Presidential Diagnosis

Yesterday 9:27 am Comix Nation

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Politics

Kamala Harris Makes History, Many Times Over

The bravery and radicalism of Joe Biden’s choice will become apparent over time.

Joan Walsh

Representative Barbara Lee: ‘The Public Is With Us’

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, the representative talks about cutting the defense budget, what Covid-19 has revealed about systemic racism, and her mentor Shirley Chisholm.

John Nichols

Trump Ramps Up His Assault on Democracy

His executive orders and manipulations of the Census Bureau and Postal Service disregard constitutional limits on presidential power.

Sasha Abramsky

editor's picks

A Lethal Traffic Stop in Georgia

ML Kejera

When Humans Make the Wilderness

Valentine Faure

Culture

Arca’s Rebellion Against Music and Life

How the experimental artist made one of the year’s most defiant pop records. 

Julyssa Lopez

For Ottessa Moshfegh, Novel Writing Is a Spiritual Experience

We talked to the writer about how she composes her books and how she gets into the minds of her characters. 

Rosemarie Ho

Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

Robert Greene II

editor’s picks

Homeland Security Is Quietly Tying Antifa to Foreign Powers

Ken Klippenstein

The Deaths of 150,000 Americans Are on Trump’s Hands

Elie Mystal

Nation Voices

Bryce Covert
Bryce Covert

America Is Headed for an Unprecedented Wave of Evictions

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Elie Mystal
Elie Mystal

Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19?

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Dave Zirin
Dave Zirin

Republicans Suddenly Have a Passion for College Football

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John Nichols
John Nichols

Kamala Harris Will Shred Mike Pence in the Vice Presidential Debate

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Kali Holloway
Kali Holloway

Trump Supports Housing Segregation—and So Do a Lot of White Liberals

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World

A Century of Struggle in Palestine

Rashid Khalidi’s new history offers a political and personal portrait of more than a hundred years of colonization and resistance in Palestine.

Kaleem Hawa

The Debate That's Needed on How to Engage With China—Before It’s Too Late

The China cold war consensus is a recipe for calamity.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Hong Kong’s Protesters Are Writing Their ‘Last Letters’

They fear being arrested or disappeared, and are not prepared to be silenced without a fight.

Billy H.C. Kwok, The Nation and Magnum Foundation

Watch and Listen

Listen: Trump’s Dangerous Push for a Vaccine by October

Listen: Ice Cube on Anti-Semitism and the Contract With Black America

Ice Cube joins the show to talk anti-Semitism, and the Contract With Black America.

August 4, 2020

Listen: This Is Disaster Relief Under Corporate Power

David Dayen on the interests overpowering our democracy, plus Amy Wilentz on Mary Trump.

July 30, 2020

View: Making George Floyd’s Life Matter

As the people of Minneapolis grieve the loss of one of their own, they’re also fighting for a future free of police brutality.

June 8, 2020
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