To Fight Trump, Take to the Streets!
The Trump administration gets more malicious, harmful, and absurd every day. So why aren’t many of us outside protesting?
Katha PollittImmigration Policy
A Weekend of Trumpian Cruelty: Remember, That’s the Point
Mike Pence’s border visit wasn’t sanitized, because the Trump administration wants its base to see brown people in cages. The ICE raids that didn’t happen were pre-announced for the same reason.
Joan WalshLaw
Donald Trump and the Plot to Take Over the Courts
How the 45th president has packed the courts with ultraconservatives—and reshaped the judiciary for a generation.
Elie MystalGovernment
Trump Can Always Find Someone Worse
To replace a disgraced secretary of labor, Trump has elevated a sweatshop lobbyist.
Jeet HeerLatest from the nation
Today 12:11 pm Labor
6 Years After the Rana Plaza Collapse, Are Garment Workers Any Safer?
Despite major advancements in accountability, workers across the Global South are still struggling to gain real power in the workplace.
Michelle Chen
Today 8:00 am
Stars and Stripes. ‘Never Again’ Is Now.
Today 8:00 am History
How Do We Build Resistance Before Disaster Strikes?
July 12, 2019 Labor
Unions Are Finally Learning to Love the Green New Deal
July 12, 2019 The Left
Leftists Shouldn’t Go on Tucker Carlson
Politics
Trump’s Retreat on the Census Question Is Not a Victory
It’s a warning for the next time the Supreme Court rules against him.
Elie Mystal
When Trump Is Tweeting Racist Attacks on Progressive Democratic Women, It’s Time to Impeach
Rashida Tlaib sums it up: “Want a response to a lawless and complete failure of a President? He needs to be impeached.”
John Nichols
Donald Trump and the Plot to Take Over the Courts
How the 45th president has packed the courts with ultraconservatives—and reshaped the judiciary for a generation.
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Nation Voices
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“There are few places where one can still read courageous journalism. The Nation is one.” - Alec Baldwin
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June 3-10, 2019, Issue
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Editorial
Trump May Not Want War With Iran—but the Coalition of the Killing May Give Him One
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Books & the Arts
Jenny Odell and the Quest to Log Off
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Books & the Arts
The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz
By Timothy Shenk
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world
The American Left Is Failing Hong Kong
Why is Marco Rubio doing more than the Democratic Party to support the people of Hong Kong?
Rosemarie Ho
How Do We Build Resistance Before Disaster Strikes?
Thirty-five years ago, organizers devised a new way to fight injustice before our government enacts a horrific policy: a pledge of resistance.
Mark Engler
America’s Colonial Climate Crisis
What should the United States’ island territories expect from rising sea levels and global warming?
Chris Gelardi
culture
The Class Politics of the Civil War
By naming a common enemy—the privileged class of slaveholders—the Republican Party and Union Army were able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.
James Oakes
The Worlds of Kathleen Collins
The quiet brilliance of her films and fiction was found in her ability to to place the interior and subjective in the context of the social and political.
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Black People Don’t Need Murals To Remember Injustice
Critics of a San Francisco school’s decision to paint over art forget that people of color have a bright future, not just a tragic past.
Jennifer WilsonWatch and Listen
Listen: The 29-Year-Old Politician Taking on the NRA in Florida
Anna Eskamani was devastated by the Pulse nightclub shooting—but she took that anger and used it to fuel her successful run for office.
July 9, 2019
Listen: The Chronicles of Kevin Durant
The Athletic’s national NBA writer Michael Lee joins the show to talk NBA, free-agency, and more.
July 2, 2019
View: PHOTOS: ‘I Haven’t Met Anybody in the Area Who Actually Wants to Take the Walls Down’
Belfast’s so-called “peace lines” were supposed to come down over a decade ago. Why are they still there?
June 5, 2019
opp-art: Dispatches from the resistance
