We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.
It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.
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It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.
The president’s unprecedented and lawless attacks supposedly target drug cartels, but serve a far more troubling political agenda.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
The country’s Gen Z uprising illustrates both the promise and limitations of online-brokered protest
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
At the start of the school year, two professors provide some hard truths about the state of academia and what you should fight for.
The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.
It’s time to break up Big Media, Big Tech, and the finance system that binds them together.
He’s abusing his office to force cultural institutions to bend the knee, too—to let MAGA install its version of our American story at museums, universities, and media companies.
As far back as 1958, Nation writers were grappling with the prospect of ‘artificial brains,’ particularly when placed in the hands of the military.
Democratic Party leadership is way out of touch with where the American people are, and it’s almost frightening to see the kind of anger and contempt that people feel toward it.
Elon Musk’s car from space offered a vision for a sustainable and autonomous future. All along, it was as awkward, easily bruised, and volatile as the entrepreneur himself.
The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.
The influential group of lawmakers has damaged its reputation as “conscience of the Congress” by staying silent on the Gaza genocide.
He has chosen to unleash a powerful and potentially cataclysmic new technology on the world with no regard for consequences.
The Pulitzer Prize– and Emmy Award–winning journalist recounts a story of hope and heartbreak on the South Side of Chicago.
Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.
The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government.
Arguably no American journalist wielded as much influence as Walter Lippmann did in the 20th century. But what did he do with that power?
Himes helped reinvent the idea of the detective novel. He also transformed it into a powerful vehicle for social criticism.
On their new albums, the punk rockers and rapper break all the rules.