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“There Is No Military Solution Out of This Ukraine Crisis”

Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee warn against posturing that might make it more difficult to find “a diplomatic way out of this crisis.”

John Nichols

Society

The GOP Dials Up Its Attacks on Critical Race Theory

The campaigns are focused on racially diverse communities with declining numbers of white students that are located in politically competitive districts.

Sasha Abramsky
Labor

Ah Quon McElrath and the Power of Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity

The Chinese Hawai’ian labor activist and social worker would ask, “Look, you are exploited, what are you going to do about it?”

Kim Kelly
Environmental Activism

A Transformative Green New Deal Requires Inclusive Manufacturing

Without a new approach to manufacturing, we may protect the environment better but continue to reinforce racial and economic inequality.

Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher Jr. and Nina Gregg
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Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers

The Making of a Coronavirus-Criminal Presidency

The Making of a Coronavirus-Criminal Presidency

If you want to know how the US ended up in a pandemic with a swindler president who could not be bothered to take basic steps to save lives, don’t start with Trump.
John Nichols
The United States is the product of an accountability movement that was never fully realized. Thomas Paine called the country into being with Common Sense, a pamphlet that invited the beleaguered residents of 13 British colonies on the eastern shore of North America to indulge their fury at the imperial… Continue Reading >

Politics

Five Palestinian flags planted in a row among rolling hills

How the Democratic Party Alienates Young Jews: A Reply to Alexis Grenell

A young generation of Jews are changing the rules of our community’s political positions, and all of us need to catch up.

Dave Zirin
Ron Johnson’s Reelection Strategy Is to Amplify Covid Conspiracy Theories

Ron Johnson’s Reelection Strategy Is to Amplify Covid Conspiracy Theories

The Wisconsinite is using the Senate as a platform to amplify discredited doctors who are more worried about vaccines than Covid.

John Nichols
We Don’t Need a Department of Homeland Security

We Don’t Need a Department of Homeland Security

Since 9/11, we’ve overfunded a second Pentagon capable of focusing on whatever it considers to be most politically expedient.

Andrea Mazzarino

Culture

The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery

The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery

Does his first posthumous collection, Parallel Movement of the Hands, help answer the riddle of his poetic project? 

Ryan Ruby
The Story of Capitalism in One Family

The Story of Capitalism in One Family

The Lehman Trilogy proposes that the downfall of a financial dynasty is enough to tell the economic and political history of America

Alisa Solomon
The Surprising History of the Comic Book

The Surprising History of the Comic Book

Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire. 

J. Hoberman

World

Residencias de la Memoria

Stumbling on Chilean Stones—and Chilean History

Chile has a new leader and a bright future. But a country in which 44 percent of the electorate voted for an admirer of Pinochet is in need of as many obstacles to forgetting as possible.

Ariel Dorfman
A three by five grid of shipping containers has the Cuban flag painted over it.

Cuba: 60 Years of a Brutal, Vindictive, and Pointless Embargo

Where Obama was willing to try “engagement,” Biden administration policy remains mired in Cold War clichés. The Nation has always believed there is a better way.

Peter Kornbluh
The Cruel, Petty Killing of an Anti-Occupation Activist

The Cruel, Petty Killing of an Anti-Occupation Activist

Hajj Suleiman, an elder of the anti-occupation movement, was run over by a tow truck while protesting an Israeli “operation” to confiscate cars in his village.

Ben Ehrenreich

Watch and Listen

Listen: A Professor With an Alternative Way Forward for College Sports

USC professor Ben Carrington talks about Lincoln Riley and the systemic issues plaguing college athletics today.

January 25, 2022

Listen: California Dems’ Big Moves on Health Care

Sasha Abramsky on politics, plus Ellen Schrecker on the ’60s.

January 20, 2022

Listen: Eric Dickerson Brings the Smoke

We talk to NFL great Eric Dickerson about his new book.

January 18, 2022
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