What Comes After Meritocracy?
The long-standing focus by liberals on meritocratic advancement has isolated the working class.
Elizabeth AndersonActivism
Reckoning With a Year of Shared Isolation, Pandemic, and Protest
The pandemic has energized collective action on both the left and right.
Jeet HeerFine Art
The Communist Designer, the Fascist Furniture Dealer, and the Politics of Design
A tale of two bookcases.
Glenn AdamsonFiction
Elena Ferrante’s Class Dramas
Her latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults, mines the contradictions of class identity.
Jennifer WilsonLatest from The Nation
February 26, 2021
United States of Trauma
Depletion allowance. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of February 22.
Steve Brodner
February 26, 2021 Health Care
Why Xavier Becerra Is a Smart Pick to Run HHS
February 26, 2021 ICE
It’s Still Time to Abolish ICE
February 26, 2021 Palestine
Was the Killing of Ahmad Erekat an Extrajudicial Execution?
February 26, 2021 Jobs
The Pandemic Tested Our Social Safety Net. It Failed.
February 25, 2021 Politics
Republicans Are Trying to Make the January 6 Disgrace Go Away
February 25, 2021 Basketball
Welcome to the Real March Madness
Politics
It’s Still Time to Abolish ICE
There has never been a better moment to move past enforcement-focused immigration strategies.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Republicans Are Trying to Make the January 6 Disgrace Go Away
They acquitted Trump. Now they’re trying to spike a 9/11-style commission to learn what happened. Democrats can’t let them.
Joan Walsh
The Pandemic Tested Our Social Safety Net. It Failed.
The Covid-19 crisis has illuminated the myriad ways in which the US has failed its workers.
Rajan Menon
World
Mexico Could Soon Become the Largest Legal Marijuana Market in the World
But activists say the law fails to address the widespread pain that decades of militarized enforcement have caused.
Maya Averbuch
Guatemala Takes a Hard Line Against Migrants—With US Support
Long before Trump, Washington was exporting control of migratory routes, along with repressive policing, to Mexico and Central America.
Jeff Abbott
In Okinawa, the US Military Seeks a Base Built on the Bones of the War Dead
Japan is using earth from a battlefield filled with human remains to build the foundation of a US military installation.
Maia Hibbett
Culture
The Unknown Radicals of Black Photography
A recent exhibition on the Kamoinge Workshop tells the story of a group of photographers who explored the artistic and political potential of the medium to its fullest.
Barry Schwabsky
‘Minari’ Is a Landmark for Asian American Cinema
Lee Isaac Chung’s poignant immigrant drama is the kind of film that can be felt with all five senses.
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Danielle Evans’s Poignant Histories of the Present
Her new fiction collection The Office of Historical Corrections gives an intimate retelling of some of the debates and protests that defined the last decade.
Jessica LynneWatch and Listen
Watch: Was the Killing of Ahmad Erekat an Extrajudicial Execution?
Watch Forensic Architecture's detailed investigation of the circumstances of Ahmad Erekat’s killing.
February 26, 2021
Listen: The Trumpers Among Us: Katha Pollitt
Plus Eric Foner on Will Smith’s series on the 14th Amendment.
February 25, 2021
