Republicans Are on the Retreat in California
Shifting tides after the attempted recall vote show that voters are concerned more with policy than with rhetoric.
Sasha AbramskyLabor Organizing
Why Alabama Coal Miners Are Still on Strike
Greg Pilkerton has been fighting for better pay and working conditions for 10 months. He explains why he and his union comrades aren’t giving up.
Kim KellyJobs
The Revolution Against Low-Wage Work
Workers used the additional resources of the past year to demand better pay and conditions.
Mike KonczalWorld
Chile’s “New Left” Brings Hope
With capital already taking flight and the rise of the far right, Gabriel Boric’s administration isn’t in for an easy ride.
Franck GaudichaudYear in Review
These Progressives Fought the Good Fight in 2021—and Gave Us Hope for 2022
For a year that saw progress come slowly and presidential approval ratings decline, these progressives held the line, speaking truth to power, defending democracy, and showing up for the American people.
John NicholsA Year on a Hinge of History
If we want to save the republic, we will have to do it ourselves.
D.D. GuttenplanPolitics
Defusing the Global Climate Emergency Depends on Defusing the Democracy Emergency
On the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, we’re reminded that the future hinges on rejecting the two Big Lies.
Mark Hertsgaard
Will Garland Do What It Takes to Bring the Insurrectionists to Justice?
A lot is riding on the attorney general’s prosecution of January 6 insurrectionists—including whether future coup plotters think they’ll be able to get away with it.
Elie Mystal
What Conservative Justices Talk About When They Talk About Religious Liberty
The conservative majority on the US Supreme Court has honed a new, radical approach to religious liberty, the significance of which cannot be overstated.
Katherine Franke and The NationCulture
Randall Kennedy Says It Loud
A conversation with the Harvard law professor about his new essay collection, the state or racial politics, campus activism, and much more.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
The False Promise of Criminal Justice Reform
Why we have to look past reformism and embrace the politics of prison abolition.
Charlotte Rosen
How Private Capital Strangled Our Cities
By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.
Samuel Zipp
World
No Other Way to Live: Why Ai Weiwei Left China
Xi Jinping’s tenure has been marked by harsh crackdowns on human rights activism.
Yaqiu Wang
2 Decades of Military Force Got Us Nowhere
Twenty years of war, around $6 trillion, and nearly 1 million corpses later, there are now more terrorist groups than in 2001.
Nick Turse
The Russian Supreme Court Moves to Shut Down a Prominent Human Rights Group
Despite what may seem like a hopeless situation, Memorial has refused to give up.
Finley MuratovaNation Voices
Watch and Listen
Listen: Remembering Rennie Davis, Remembering Joan Didion
Interviews with two we lost in 2021.
December 30, 2021
Listen: What Were Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior, and Eric Doing on January 6?
Amy Wilentz on the insurrection, plus Tom Lutz on The Kindness of Strangers.
December 23, 2021
