The Politics of Joy
Just because last weekend’s surge of solidarity and celebration can’t last doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.
D.D. GuttenplanElection 2020
2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
Democrats’ failure to address the issue of economic precarity undermines their claim to be the party of the working class.
Albena Azmanova and Marshall AuerbackPolitics
Trump’s Final Dereliction of Duty
In the twilight of his presidency, Donald Trump has retreated into fantasy, leaving Biden with a big mess.
Jeet HeerDemocrats
Joe Biden’s Presidency Depends on Georgia
A pair of runoff elections in the state could end Mitch McConnell’s destructive tenure as Senate majority leader.
John Nichols and Joan WalshLatest from The Nation
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Dave Zirin
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Where's Plan B?
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A Hole in One
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Living in Borat’s America
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How Georgia Turned Blue
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The Trump-Shaped Stain on American Life
November 12, 2020 Asia
‘We Won’t Quit Until We Stop It’
Politics
The Trump-Shaped Stain on American Life
From the courts to the border to the meaning of truth, damage has been done.
Katha Pollitt
Donald Trump Has Never Understood the Military—and He’s Not Going to Be Able to Co-opt It for a Coup
He can consolidate power in the Pentagon, but the military men and women I know aren’t going to subvert democracy.
Andrew McCormick
Donald Trump’s Deadly Last Stand
The Republican delay in acknowledging defeat and facilitating the transition will be literally fatal to thousands of Americans.
Gregg Gonsalves
World
Cameroonian Asylum Seekers Say They Face Violent Persecution Upon Deportation
Immigrant rights advocates allege that ICE detainees are being coerced, sometimes violently, into signing their own removal papers and returned to a country that is arresting and beating them.
John Washington
The Death of Working-Class Paris
As the rich transform France’s capital into a piggy bank and playground, the future of the city hangs in the balance.
Cole Stangler
The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War
Since the 2003 invasion, doctors in Fallujah have been reporting a sharp rise in birth defects among the city’s children—and to this day, no one knows why.
Laura Gottesdienereditor’s picks
Nation Voices
Culture
The Limits of the Viral Book Review
Why are literary critics fixating on one quality nowadays?
Larissa Pham
Is There a Cure for Burnout?
Anne Helen Petersen’s Can't Even grapples with the miseries of millennial work.
Jeremy GordonWatch and Listen
Listen: Mike Davis: Biden’s Big Mistake
Plus Jody Armour on how Black Lives Matter won at the polls.
November 12, 2020
View: Behind the Doors of New York’s Public Housing
Portraits of the activists, organizers, artists, and more who call the Lower East Side’s public housing home.
November 10, 2020
View: How Many Cameras Does One Protest Need?
Livestreamers and citizen journalists are providing constant, steady footage of the protests for Black Lives. Is that a good thing?
November 3, 2020
From the Magazine
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November 16/23, 2020, Issue
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Editorial
The Supreme Court Has Never Been on the Side of Working People By D.D. Guttenplan and The Nation
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Feature
The Children of Fallujah: The Medical Mystery at the Heart of the Iraq War By Laura Gottesdiener
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Books & the Arts
Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life By Susan Pedersen
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