Trump and the GOP Intensify Their Assault on Democracy
This is a coordinated effort to sabotage the election results and purge the government of officials with the stature to stand up to it.
Sasha AbramskyThe Constitution
American Democracy Was Never Supposed to Work
Without a practical plan for revising the Constitution, Democrats will be condemned to play by rigged rules.
Richard KreitnerGeorgia
Georgia Senator David Perdue Is Terrified That Jon Ossoff Will Shred Him in Another Debate
In a runoff election that could decide control of the Senate, the Republican incumbent is hiding from accountability for his dirty dealing.
John NicholsClimate Change
Kim Stanley Robinson Bears Witness to Our Climate Futures
A conversation with the acclaimed sci-fi novelist about the climate crisis, activism, utopia, and his new novel, The Ministry for the Future.
Lewis GordonLatest from The Nation
Yesterday 4:04 pm Humor
In a Parallel Universe, Trump Accepts Loss
At least we can dream of an easy election.
Tom Tomorrow
Yesterday 5:30 am Economy
Starting From Stockton
Yesterday 5:00 am NFL
Pandemics and Protest With Marc Lamont Hill
Yesterday 5:00 am Society
There Is a Name for Women Like My Mother
Yesterday 5:00 am Non-fiction
The Radical Origins of Self-Help Literature
Yesterday 5:00 am Poems
In the Event of My Death
November 16, 2020 World
There Are More People Being Displaced Than Ever Before
November 16, 2020 State and Local Elections
Nebraska’s Last Blue Electoral Vote?
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
Nebraska’s Last Blue Electoral Vote?
Omaha gave Biden an electoral vote. The GOP wants to make sure that never happens again.
Ross Benes
The Coup That Succeeded
The most dangerous blows to American democracy have come not from Trump but from the national security establishment.
Jeet Heer
World
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 Gottesdiener
Biden Signals Flexibility on North Korea, but Peace Groups Are Wary
Koreans fear a return to Obama’s failed “strategic patience” policy.
Tim Shorrockeditor’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
