‘We Have to Make Our Nation Confront What It Doesn’t Want to Remember’
A conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Katrina vanden HeuvelElectoral Reform
Unite Here Hits the Road to Defend Voting Rights
The canvassers who flipped Arizona in 2020 have embarked on a new Freedom Ride to raise awareness of the For the People Act.
Sasha AbramskyActivism
Gwen Berry Is the Hero We Need
The Olympic hammer thrower is facing attacks similar to those felt by anti-racist educators and activists around the country. And she is not backing down an inch.
Dave ZirinLabor
The Real Target in the Supreme Court’s ‘Cedar Point’ Decision
The court and the press talked about “property rights.” But the real impact will be on organizing, and workers’ rights.
David BaconLatest from The Nation
July 2, 2021 Foreign Policy
The True American Patriots Are the Anti-Imperialists
Two hundred years ago this week, our wisest secretary of state warned Americans against a career of empire.
John Nichols
July 2, 2021
Red, White, and Blue
July 1, 2021 Politics
Nancy Pelosi Outplays Kevin McCarthy Once Again
July 1, 2021 War on Terror
War Criminal Found Dead at 88
July 1, 2021
An Artist’s Vision of Brexit Nightmares
Politics
The Truth About the Bipartisan Infrastructure Agreement
Progressives don’t have to convert Republicans—we just have to get Democrats to stand up.
Robert L. Borosage
War Criminal Found Dead at 88
The human and economic costs of Donald Rumsfeld’s wars are staggering.
Phyllis Bennis
Nancy Pelosi Outplays Kevin McCarthy Once Again
The House minority leader threatens GOP members who agree to serve on the Select Committee to investigate January 6. But Liz Cheney defies him, and now Pelosi has a quorum.
Joan Walsh
World
The Human Cost of 10 Years of Conflict in Syria
A decade after the first shots were fired, cities are in ruins, over half a million Syrians have died, and more than ten million have been displaced.
John Washington
Biden’s Failure to End Trump’s War on Cuba Is Threatening Lives
The president promised to return to Obama’s policies of engagement with Cuba, but the embargo and other Trump-era restrictions remain in place.
Danny Glover
In the Archive of the Filipino Revolution
The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata looks at a colony on the cusp of revolt and how historians influence the way these moments are remembered.
Noah FloraNation Voices
Culture
Janet Malcolm’s Provocations
Her writing cut through propriety and pretentiousness and revealed us for who we are: desiring creatures, complicated and simple at once.
Maggie Doherty
How Did Education in the United States Become So Unequal?
A new history of Boston’s schools reminds us how the brittle vision of whom and what education serves has long been defined by managers and employers instead of the educators who do the work and the students who are supposed to benefit from it.
Megan Erickson
Diane Johnson’s Homecoming
In her new novel, the novelist returns to the United States to offer a self-conscious story of American fragmentation.
Becca RothfeldWatch and Listen
Listen: ‘Critical Race Theory’ at a Big Sports School
African American Studies department chair David Canton joins the show to talk sports, politics, and critical race theory
June 15, 2021
Listen: White Politics and Black History in Tulsa
David Perry on the Tulsa Race Massacre commemoration, plus Katha Pollitt on Jordan Peterson’s advice for men.
June 3, 2021
