Where Do We Go From Here? Where Do We Go From Here?

Thinkers, activists, and writers share their ideas on how to respond to the coming Trump era.

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Some Post-Election Reminders Some Post-Election Reminders

We’re all still processing Harris’s defeat. Here are some points to keep in mind before the infighting gets too venomous.

Robert L. Borosage for The Nation

Reckoning With the Election Results Reckoning With the Election Results

What went wrong—and what we have to do now.

D.D. Guttenplan

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Politics

Black and white photo of people waving to a train.

America Has Done Mass Deportation Before America Has Done Mass Deportation Before

From the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the deportation of Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression, Trump can easily find precedents for his policy. None of them ended well.

Eric Foner

Republican presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump, takes the stage for his last rally of the election year at Van Andel Arena on November 5, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

What Explains Trumpism? What Explains Trumpism?

It’s capitalism, and it’s global.

Stephen Crowley

How the US Media Helped the Biden Administration Distance Itself From the Horrors of Gaza

How the US Media Helped the Biden Administration Distance Itself From the Horrors of Gaza How the US Media Helped the Biden Administration Distance Itself From the Horrors of Gaza

White House–curated stories of performative outrage and feigned helplessness provided cover for an administration arming death on an industrial scale.

Adam Johnson and Othman Ali

Books & the Arts

Dubai Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

In the Zone of the Rich In the Zone of the Rich

In The Hidden Globe, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines what globalization has come to look like for the wealthy.

Books & the Arts / Vanessa Ogle

Storming the Winter Palace on October 25, 1917.

The Impossible Story of Communism The Impossible Story of Communism

How do you tell the history of a global movement in all its hope and contradiction?

Books & the Arts / David A. Bell

The Discontents of Michel Houellebecq

The Discontents of Michel Houellebecq The Discontents of Michel Houellebecq

What happened to the French novelist?

Books & the Arts / Cole Stangler

World

Mexican army soldiers aboard military vehicles patrol a highway as part of a military operation to reinforce security following a wave of violence in the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico, on August 19, 2024.

With Trump in the White House, Can Mexico Avoid Making the Drug War Even Bloodier? With Trump in the White House, Can Mexico Avoid Making the Drug War Even Bloodier?

Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has a plan to combat drug trafficking, but she has a problem: Donald Trump.

Juan David Rojas

Activists, including one holding a piece of paper with “Pay Up!” written on it, in reference to demands for climate finance for developing countries, arrive to attend the “People’s Plenary on day 10 at the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference on November 21, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Rich Countries Must Pay Up or Humanity Will Pay the Price Rich Countries Must Pay Up or Humanity Will Pay the Price

The climate activist Lidy Nacpil says the climate bill owed to developing nations is in the “trillions, not billions.”

Q&A / Carol Schaeffer

Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump visits The Great Commoner cafe while Hamtramck, MI mayor Amer Ghalib stands to his right on November 01, 2024 in Dearborn, Michigan.

Gazans Heard Trump’s Promises. Now They Want Him to Keep Them. Gazans Heard Trump’s Promises. Now They Want Him to Keep Them.

Trump made a direct pitch to end the war on Gaza. The people still living there were listening.

Ruwaida Kamal Amer

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How Wisconsin Lost Control of the Strange Disease Killing Its Deer

How Wisconsin Lost Control of the Strange Disease Killing Its Deer How Wisconsin Lost Control of the Strange Disease Killing Its Deer

Despite early containment efforts, chronic wasting disease has been allowed to run rampant in the state. That’s bad news for all of us.

Feature / Jimmy Tobias

The Perfect, Smiling Wives of the Christian Right

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Far from being an immutable fact of Christianity, evangelical antifeminism is recent, virulent, and gaining traction every day.

Feature / Talia Lavin

25 Years of Indecision With Jon Stewart

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Before he left his post at The Daily Show, Stewart was America’s voice of reason. Times have changed. Has he?

Feature / John Semley

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