Portraits From the Exodus
Members of the migrant caravans, stranded in Tijuana, explain why they traveled thousands of miles from their homes.
John Washington and Tracie WilliamsPoverty
Jazmine Headley’s Arrest Exposes the Punitive Design of Public Assistance
Welfare offices are the public face of a system designed to control, surveil, and penalize low-income women.
Mariana ChiltonPolitics
Scott Walker Ends His Miserable Governorship With a Final Blow to Democracy
By signing lame-duck legislation to disempower his successor, the Wisconsinite confirms his scorching contempt for the will of the people.
John NicholsWar and Peace
The Senate’s Yemen Vote Proves a More Democratic Foreign Policy Is Possible
Public outrage over US-Saudi relations may put an end to war—and serve as an important lesson for progressives.
Evan HillLatest From The Nation
December 14, 2018 Trump and Russia
Don’t Let Russophobia Warp the Facts on Russiagate
Despite the media hoopla, Mueller’s latest filings do not bring us any closer to proving the long-sought Trump-Russia conspiracy.
Aaron Maté
December 14, 2018 Fine Art
The Triumph of the Brooklyn Museum’s ‘Soul of a Nation’
December 14, 2018 Armed Conflicts
War Crimes in Our Name: A Q&A With Shireen Al-Adeimi
December 14, 2018
Elegy Ending
December 14, 2018 Class
Central Banks Versus the People
December 13, 2018 Environment
Trump Moves to Gut the Clean Water Act
December 13, 2018 William Barr
William Barr: Worse Than Jeff Sessions?
December 13, 2018 Campaigns and Elections
Dear Beto, Andrew, and Stacey—Run Again
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Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War
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Trump’s War on Trans Rights: A Q&A With Chase Strangio
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Books & the Arts
The Plague of Pointless Work
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Politics
It’s Time to Demystify Russiagate
There have been endless, bewildering plot twists, but essentially it’s a corruption scandal—one that should bring down Trump’s presidency.
David Klion
If Trump Wants to Curb Migration, He Shouldn’t Cut Foreign Aid
Dita has been deported three times back to El Salvador. Now a USAID-funded organization gives her hope that she can thrive in her own country.
Eileen Grench
Kevin McCarthy Is Inventing Reasons Not to Investigate Trump
After ceaselessly probing Clinton and Obama non-scandals, the House majority leader has changed his tune.
Joan WalshNation Voices
world
Who’s Afraid of a Sex Workers’ Union?
A movement for sex workers’ rights is gaining momentum in Spain—but it’s facing opposition from the national government and some feminists.
Meaghan Beatley
For Emmanuel Macron, How Did Things Get So Bad, So Fast?
The fault lies with both the French president himself and the political and cultural elite that formed him.
David A. Bell
Yanis Varoufakis’s Internationalist Odyssey
The former Greek finance minister is on a quest to unite the global left.
Atossa Araxia AbrahamianOpp-Art: Dispatches from the resistance
Culture
Keith Gessen’s Portrait of a Moscow Caught Between Two Worlds
His new novel, A Terrible Country, offers a heartbreakingly intimate glimpse into contemporary Russian life.
Gregory Afinogenov
The Bad History—and Bad Politics—of Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s ‘Capitalism in America’
Although the long sweep of American economic history is the ostensible subject of Capitalism in America, it tell us more about Alan Greenspan than about the history of capitalism.
Kim Phillips-Fein
‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Makes a Spectacle of Nostalgia
The second season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show is stuck in its comfort zone.
Sarah MarshallWatch and Listen
Listen: Dark Knight: Bob Knight’s Last Days at Indiana
Robert Abbott, director of the ESPN 30 for 30 film Last Days of Knight, stops by to talk film.
December 11, 2018
View: PHOTOS: These Students Are Sick and Tired of Gun Violence
“That could be me, my friends, my family.”
April 26, 2018
Watch: These Tenants Are Leading the Largest Rent Strike in LA History
Residents of three buildings in Central Los Angeles are refusing to pay rent until their landlord agrees to fair rent increases.
August 20, 2018
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