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Just Because Cuomo Deserves Due Process Doesn’t Mean He Shouldn’t Resign

Sexual assault victims face an impossible burden of proof. We know enough to demand that the governor step down.

Alexis Grenell

Third Party Politics

How to Stop Andrew Yang

Ranked-choice voting allows New Yorkers to block this celebrity candidate even without a clear progressive front-runner.

D.D. Guttenplan
Africa

Voices Are Raised Against the NBA Launching Its New African League in Rwanda

Human rights groups are concerned that using Rwanda as a backdrop would provide a public relations boost for its autocratic leader.

Dave Zirin
Racism and Discrimination

White Supremacy Never Takes a Day Off

The Chauvin verdict seemed like a victory. Then came the racist reaction to the verdict—and the murder of Ma’Khia Bryant.

Elie Mystal and The Nation
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Politics

Republicans Are Risking a Major Realignment

If Democrats can convince even an eighth of swing voters to care more about the well-being of their families than about Dr. Seuss, the result would be landslides that no Republican legislature or voter-suppression law could reverse.

Mark Green

Jamaal Bowman Explains How Progressives Will Make Biden’s Presidency Even Bolder

In response to the president’s address and in an exclusive interview with The Nation, the new congressman calls for transformative change.

John Nichols

Kevin McCarthy Humiliates Himself Again

Covering up Trump’s role in the January 6 violence, he’s now vying to be speaker of the Insurrection.

Joan Walsh

Culture

Why Do We Forget Pandemics?

Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the catastrophe of the Spanish flu had been dropped from American memory.

Nina Burleigh

The Art of the Memoir With Japanese Breakfast

A conversation with indie pop artist Michelle Zauner on cooking, grieving, and the role politics plays in music.

Rosemarie Ho

The Caustic Grace of ‘French Exit’

This surreal “tragedy of manners” is a showcase for one of Hollywood’s most compelling actresses—Michelle Pfeiffer.

Vikram Murthi

World

The Toxic Legacy of the US Military in the Pacific

A Welsh journalist uncovers a decades-long environmental disaster around US bases in East Asia.

Tim Shorrock

Save the Planet or End Poverty? How to Escape the Extractivist Dilemma.

A nearly forgotten proposal could help keep oil in the ground and reduce inequality.

James North

The Fight Against Vaccine Apartheid Goes Global

Israel’s refusal to vaccinate Palestinians under occupation has stirred widespread outrage—and linked the struggle for justice in Palestine to struggles around the world.  

Yara M. Asi

Watch and Listen

Listen: How Does Whiteness Operate in Sports?

Former volleyball coach Jen Fry joins the show to talk about how race and sport interact.

April 20, 2021

Listen: The Next Fight Against Voter Suppression

Dale Ho on Georgia, plus Karen Greenberg on ending our forever wars.

April 8, 2021

View: Mexico Could Soon Become the Largest Legal Marijuana Market in the World

But activists say the law fails to address the widespread pain that decades of militarized enforcement have caused.

February 25, 2021
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