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President Donald J. Trump—It Could Happen

His promise to protect jobs and change trade policies could win over blue-collar workers, especially in the industrialized swing states.

John Nichols

Foreign Policy

A Sanders Foreign-Policy Doctrine? How About ‘No Wars for the Billionaire Class’?

It provides a framework to address a host of issues, including the Middle East wars, intervention and aid, trade deals, and negotiating with adversaries.

Phyllis Bennis
Election 2016

The Gap Between New America and Old Politics

Latinos aren’t the only demographic changing the electorate.

Julianne Hing
Campaigns and Elections

The Economic Dilemma Democrats Face in 2016

The challenge for any Democratic candidate is to learn—and learn fast—that he or she must be the candidate of fundamental change, not the candidate of continuity.

Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Inequality

Want Debt-Free College? Tax the Rich.

A 1 percent tax on concentrated wealth would erase student debt over a decade and bring the cost of public higher education to zero.

Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Retirement Benefits Are Rigged to Favor the Rich

Wealthy CEOs are sheltering too much of their pay. A cap could fund long-term care for all seniors.

Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Black Workers Matter, Too

A movement linking civil rights with the right to organize would narrow the racial wage gap—and reinvigorate American labor.

Sarah Anderson, Marc Bayard, John Cavanagh, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie and Sam Pizzigati

Election 2016

The Unstoppable Donald J. Trump

He’s run a nativist, racist, populist, anti-Republican campaign—and he’s winning. Everyone else is running for second place.

Joan Walsh

Why the Results of South Carolina’s Republican Primary Should Worry Democrats

Trump wins and Rubio grabs the establishment lane. Neither of them would be pushovers in November.

D.D. Guttenplan

Hillary Clinton’s Investment in Nevada Pays Off

Clinton took away 19 delegates, including Latino-heavy precincts on the east side of Las Vegas.

Julianne Hing
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Books & the Arts

The Federal Reserve’s Growing Power

Can the jury-rigged arrangement between the US economy and its governing bodies last?

Timothy Shenk

Visible and Invisible Women: ‘Pairing Picasso’ at the MFA

The woman’s body is the unspoken subject of a remarkable new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.

Eve L. Ewing

The Alter Ego of Robert Craft

For many years, the conductor was inseparable from the music and household of Igor Stravinsky.

David Schiff

Columnists

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Watch and Listen

Watch: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Sports Taught America That ‘Bigotry Is Not a Cool Thing’

The sports legend sits down with The Nation’s Dave Zirin.

January 29, 2016

Listen: Start Making Sense: The Secret to Bernie’s Startling Success

Plus: Rick Perlstein on Trump’s triumph and Jane Mayer on the Koch brothers.

February 11, 2016

View: Reclaiming Black History, One Grave at a Time

Photojournalist Brian Palmer documents the effort to restore a Virginia cemetery overtaken by trash and brush during years of official neglect.

October 15, 2015

Poems

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