This Gun-Control Activist Helped Plan the March for Our Lives. Now She’s Running for Congress.
Lucy McBath, whose son was shot and killed in 2012, has jumped into the primary to take on Karen Handel in Georgia’s sixth district.
Joan WalshCriminal Justice
What the FBI Raid on Michael Cohen Means for the Russia Investigation
It’s not just about payoffs to a porn star and a Playboy bunny.
Bob DreyfussNuclear Arms and Proliferation
The Secret Daniel Ellsberg Really Worries About
The author and former military analyst tells The Nation that it’s still US policy to launch a first-strike nuclear attack.
Mark HertsgaardForeign Policy
Cubans Face the End of the Castro Era
As Raúl steps aside, the country faces transition and transformation.
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What Andrew Cuomo Has in Common With Scott Walker
The New York governor’s failure to call a prompt special election to fill a vacant congressional seat disregards democracy.
John Nichols
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Earth Day, April 22
April 19, 2018 Education
What’s at Stake in the Teachers’ Strikes?
April 19, 2018 Internet and New Media
Dennis Kucinich Is Back in the Running
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Power Needs to Be Restored to Internet Users
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Election 2018 Is Off to the Racists
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Books & the Arts
From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age
By Steven Hahn
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April 16, 2018, Issue
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Farewell, Robert Grossman
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Why Evangelicals—Still!—Support Trump
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Books & the Arts
Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights
By Elias Rodriques
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Politics
Trump Is Putting Anti-Choice Extremists Back in Power
He’s filling his administration, agencies, and the courts with activists who peddle junk science and lies about both contraception and abortion.
Dawn Huckelbridge
How ICE Puts a Generation at Risk
Young people are left to grapple with the consequences of every raid—sometimes for years.
Laila Lalami
American Hubris, or, How Globalization Brought Us Donald Trump
It was “free trade” mania, pushed by both major political parties, that destroyed working-class prosperity and laid the groundwork for his triumph.
William GreiderFeature
How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump
To understand why evangelicals support the president, look to the first Protestant.
Michael MassingThe support of white evangelicals for Donald Trump continues to exasperate and perplex. About 80 percent of them voted for him in 2016—the most recorded for a Republican candidate since 2000—and his approval rating among them remains high. In June, some 1,000 evangelical pastors plan to meet the president, both… Continue Reading >
Nation Voices
world
‘The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended’
As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba.
George Bisharat
Colombia’s Presidential Hopeful Gustavo Petro Wants a New Left for Latin America
In an interview with The Nation, the former mayor of Bogotá discusses what his election would mean for Colombia and the region.
Miguel Salazar
Lula May Be in Jail, but Brazil’s Occupy Movement Won’t Let Hope Die
The Curitiba camp has become ground zero for a left that has been fighting an uphill battle since before the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.
Michael FoxOpp-Art: Dispatches from the resistance
Culture
Young Fathers Find a New Sound
The band’s sense of what would pass for fitting into the pop-music mainstream is draped in their own idiosyncrasies.
Briana Younger
From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age
The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?
Steven Hahn
Joan Jonas’s Fragments
More than anything else, time itself is the material Jonas works with, manipulating it as a sculptor might mold clay.
Barry SchwabskyFocus on syria
American Air Strikes in Syria Do Nothing to Further Justice for the Victims of the Attack on Douma
There is no legal justification for the current US troop presence in Syria, let alone additional air strikes.
Phyllis BennisTrump Just Launched Another Illegal Attack Against Syria
Administration hard-liners are putting US national-security interests in grave jeopardy.
James CardenWatch and Listen
Listen: Can a Feminist Revolution Save Women’s Soccer in South America?
Brenda Elsey explains how women are saving their soccer federations from near-oblivion.
April 17, 2018
View: Photos: Who Actually Benefits From Meals on Wheels?
And why did the Trump administration think it was a good idea to cut funding for these vital programs?
March 30, 2018
View: ‘A Border Control Official Sexually Abused Me’
Aura Hernández fled to the US seeking safety. Instead, she was sexually abused by a border patrol agent.
April 2, 2018
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