Report From the Chauvin Trial: Blitzkrieg at Brooklyn Center
Operation Safety Net, the multiagency task force created for the Derek Chauvin trial, ambushed and arrested protesters outside a suburban police station Friday night.
Alyssa Oursler and Anna DalCortivoJournalists and Journalism
American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror
History must be acknowledged before justice can be done.
Channing Gerard JosephBiography
Was Marx Also a Social Democrat?
In a new book, Shlomo Avineri explores the social democratic impulses and Jewish origins of Karl Marx.
Bruce RobbinsDemocrats
Democrats Should Talk Even More About Defunding the Police
The greatest upside for congressional Democrats is to solidify their strength with the young people by embracing popular progressive policy positions.
Steve PhillipsLatest from The Nation
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The Pentagon Is Not Taking Covid Seriously Enough
Over a third of active-duty military personnel have refused to be vaccinated. The Pentagon’s response has mostly been silence.
Andrea Mazzarino
April 16, 2021 Law
Remembering Ramsey Clark 1927–2021
April 16, 2021
Virginia, Minnesota, Illinois
April 16, 2021
The Last Whites
April 16, 2021 Climate Change
Climate Migration Has Come to the United States
April 16, 2021 Society
The Ruins of Bunker Hill
Dateline: Minneapolis
Just Outside Minneapolis, the Next Uprising Is Here
The Chauvin trial is almost over. The officer who killed Daunte Wright appears in Zoom court today.
Alyssa Oursler and Anna DalCortivoMinneapolis Grieves for George Floyd
With the murder trial for officer Derek Chauvin underway, these photos show how activists continue to honor him and other victims of police violence.
Tim Evans, Anna DalCortivo and Alyssa OurslerFor Black Lives Matter Protesters, There Are No Days Off
In the midst of Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, police in suburban Minneapolis killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man.
Alyssa Oursler and Anna DalCortivoPolitics
Democrats Should Talk Even More About Defunding the Police
The greatest upside for congressional Democrats is to solidify their strength with the young people by embracing popular progressive policy positions.
Steve Phillips
Democratic Socialist Rana Abdelhamid Takes On a New York Incumbent
"I came to organizing both from a class perspective and also just growing up post-9/11 as a Muslim New Yorker,” the candidate told The Nation.
Aída Chávez
Charles Booker Knows Just How to Tackle Rand Paul in 2022
The Democrat who shook up Kentucky politics in 2020 is looking at a 2022 run. Will D.C. Democrats let him run the right race this time?
John Nichols
World
Why Brazil Still Matters
With Lula eligible to run against Bolsonaro, Brazilians hold the world’s future in their hands.
Glenn Greenwald
Migrant Massage Workers Don’t Need to Be Rescued
Wu, a member of the sex worker collective Red Canary Song, discusses body work at the intersection of class, race, gender, and whorephobia.
Rosemarie Ho
In Ecuador, a Presidential Election With Global Reach
The runoff this Sunday will determine not only who will be president—Andrés Arauz or Guillermo Lasso—but also whether Ecuador will continue to lead the fight against elite financial corruption.
Greg GrandinNation Voices
Culture
Why Do We Believe in Photographs?
David Levi Strauss’s new book looks at the ancient roots of photography to understand how the medium became so distorted in the present.
Will Fenstermaker
B. Traven: Fiction’s Forgotten Radical
The enigmatic author’s anarcho-communist politics seep into his novels about wage labor, class consciousness, and the violence of capital.
Clinton Williamson
How ‘Things’ In Fiction Shape the Way We Read
Sarah Wasserman’s recent book looks at how the objects we take for granted in stories can reveal even deeper meaning.
Sophie HaigneyWatch and Listen
Listen: The Legendary ‘Cobra’ Dave Parker
Legendary baseball player Dave Parker joins the show to talk about his recent book and his storied career.
April 13, 2021
Listen: The Next Fight Against Voter Suppression
Dale Ho on Georgia, plus Karen Greenberg on ending our forever wars.
April 8, 2021
