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Our Elections Are Not Immune

Where’s the plan to ensure that the coronavirus doesn’t upend the 2020 elections?

John Nichols

Fiction

Jenny Offill’s Novel of Climate Dread

In Weather, Offill is reluctant to offer false comfort, but she does ask us if worrying is enough.

Tony Tulathimutte
Election 2020

Lessons From Elizabeth Warren’s Defeat

Bernie Sanders can borrow from Warren’s unity message in order to expand his own coalition.

Jeet Heer
Campaigns and Elections

‘This Was a Grift’: Bloomberg Staffers Explain Campaign’s Demise

When Elizabeth Warren embarrassed Bloomberg on the debate stage, his lackluster campaign was effectively over.

Ken Klippenstein
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Politics

Our Capitalist, Corporatist Country Is Drastically Unprepared for the Coronavirus

Stemming the tide of coronavirus may require lots of people to stay home from work. The problem is, that’s a luxury many workers can’t afford.

Elie Mystal

How Rudy Giuliani Became Trump’s Shadow Secretary of State

Through his travels from Iran to Ukraine, Giulani has become a walking, talking conflict-of-interest machine.

Bob Dreyfuss

Washington Hawks Are Softening Their Hard Line on Sanctions Against North Korea

They fear Mike Pompeo’s diplomacy is backfiring and may be alienating South Korea—and they worry that sanctions will vastly worsen the COVID-19 epidemic.

Tim Shorrock

Election 2020

Elizabeth Warren Still Has a Choice to Make

The stakes are too high for her to remain on the sidelines.

D.D. Guttenplan

Put Elizabeth Warren in Charge of Writing the Democratic Platform

The senator should chair a supercharged platform committee and lead in the forging of an agenda for big, bold structural change.

John Nichols

Sexism Sank Elizabeth Warren

Warren was a brilliant candidate who would have made a great president. The problem? She’s a woman—and she isn’t “perfect.”

Elie Mystal

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‘Ruin Our Territory—for What?’

A massive standoff over a pipeline through Wet’suwet’en land is pushing Canada to confront how it deals with Indigenous rights.
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
The date is etched into the memory of Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks: December 11, 1997. That’s the day when the Supreme Court of Canada recognized that the Indigenous nations of the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan had never agreed to give up their ancestral territory in northern British Columbia. The Delgamuukw ruling,… Continue Reading >

World

The Coronavirus Exposes Why the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Should Be Canceled

The Tokyo Olympics were already unsafe. Now, they’re even more so.

Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

Those Shoes Were Made by a Uighur Detainee

China forces Muslim minorities to produce materials that may be used by Nike, Uniqlo, Zara, and other retail giants. It’s time for the fashion industry to talk about divestment.

Jasmin Malik Chua

‘The Government Has Done This’: Inside India’s Muslim Pogrom

The RSS is driving both the anti-Muslim attacks and the decisions of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Fahad Shah

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Political Figures

‘The Nation’ Endorses Bernie Sanders and His Movement

We are proud to endorse Sanders, a democratic socialist with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges of our time.

The Nation

Anti-Endorsement

Election 2020

Joe Biden: An Anti-Endorsement

His long record of poor judgment and cozying up to bankers makes him the wrong candidate to take on Donald Trump.

The Nation

Culture

The Protests That Made and Unmade Japan’s Postwar Left

The demonstrations against the Anpo treaty remain the largest protest movement in Japanese history and yet their defeat cleared the path for decades of conservative rule.

Colin Jones

Marguerite Duras’s Radical Tales of Love and Revolt

L’Été 80, her fable-like political column for Libération, showed the full force of the revolutionary energies running through the French writer’s work.

Gili Ostfield

Danez Smith Makes Room for the Messiness of Language

We talked to Smith about their new poetry collection, Homie, and what it means to create poetic space for your community. 

Rosemarie Ho

From the Magazine

Watch and Listen

Listen: A Turning Point in Women’s Sports

Sportswriter Lindsay Gibbs and poet and writer Kevin Powell join the show to talk women’s sports and Kobe’s memorial.

March 3, 2020

Listen: Elizabeth Warren: Unity Candidate?

Joan Walsh on Warren, Bob Borosage on Bernie, and John Sayles on Yellow Earth.

February 20, 2020
February 5, 2020

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Take Action Now: Raise Your Voice in 2020

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