“There Is No Military Solution Out of This Ukraine Crisis”
Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee warn against posturing that might make it more difficult to find “a diplomatic way out of this crisis.”
John NicholsSociety
The GOP Dials Up Its Attacks on Critical Race Theory
The campaigns are focused on racially diverse communities with declining numbers of white students that are located in politically competitive districts.
Sasha AbramskyLabor
Ah Quon McElrath and the Power of Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity
The Chinese Hawai’ian labor activist and social worker would ask, “Look, you are exploited, what are you going to do about it?”
Kim KellyEnvironmental Activism
A Transformative Green New Deal Requires Inclusive Manufacturing
Without a new approach to manufacturing, we may protect the environment better but continue to reinforce racial and economic inequality.
Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher Jr. and Nina GreggCoronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers
The Making of a Coronavirus-Criminal Presidency
If you want to know how the US ended up in a pandemic with a swindler president who could not be bothered to take basic steps to save lives, don’t start with Trump.
John NicholsThe United States is the product of an accountability movement that was never fully realized. Thomas Paine called the country into being with Common Sense, a pamphlet that invited the beleaguered residents of 13 British colonies on the eastern shore of North America to indulge their fury at the imperial… Continue Reading >
Politics
How the Democratic Party Alienates Young Jews: A Reply to Alexis Grenell
A young generation of Jews are changing the rules of our community’s political positions, and all of us need to catch up.
Dave Zirin
Ron Johnson’s Reelection Strategy Is to Amplify Covid Conspiracy Theories
The Wisconsinite is using the Senate as a platform to amplify discredited doctors who are more worried about vaccines than Covid.
John Nichols
We Don’t Need a Department of Homeland Security
Since 9/11, we’ve overfunded a second Pentagon capable of focusing on whatever it considers to be most politically expedient.
Andrea Mazzarino
Culture
The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery
Does his first posthumous collection, Parallel Movement of the Hands, help answer the riddle of his poetic project?
Ryan Ruby
The Story of Capitalism in One Family
The Lehman Trilogy proposes that the downfall of a financial dynasty is enough to tell the economic and political history of America
Alisa Solomon
The Surprising History of the Comic Book
Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire.
J. HobermanWorld
Stumbling on Chilean Stones—and Chilean History
Chile has a new leader and a bright future. But a country in which 44 percent of the electorate voted for an admirer of Pinochet is in need of as many obstacles to forgetting as possible.
Ariel Dorfman
Cuba: 60 Years of a Brutal, Vindictive, and Pointless Embargo
Where Obama was willing to try “engagement,” Biden administration policy remains mired in Cold War clichés. The Nation has always believed there is a better way.
Peter Kornbluh
The Cruel, Petty Killing of an Anti-Occupation Activist
Hajj Suleiman, an elder of the anti-occupation movement, was run over by a tow truck while protesting an Israeli “operation” to confiscate cars in his village.
Ben EhrenreichNation Voices
Watch and Listen
Listen: A Professor With an Alternative Way Forward for College Sports
USC professor Ben Carrington talks about Lincoln Riley and the systemic issues plaguing college athletics today.
January 25, 2022
Listen: California Dems’ Big Moves on Health Care
Sasha Abramsky on politics, plus Ellen Schrecker on the ’60s.
January 20, 2022
