Q&A

Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s

Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s Drew Faust on Growing Up in the ’60s

A conversation with Harvard’s first woman president about how she became a civil rights and anti-war activist.

Aug 28, 2023 / Q&A / Jon Wiener

Why These Leftists Oppose Free Money

Why These Leftists Oppose Free Money Why These Leftists Oppose Free Money

A conversation with Daniel Zamora Vargas and Anton Jäger about why a “basic income” isn't such a progressive welfare idea. 

Aug 23, 2023 / Editorial / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

What It Takes to Be a Public Intellectual

What It Takes to Be a Public Intellectual What It Takes to Be a Public Intellectual

In 2014, Adam Shatz’s “Writers or Missionaries” appeared in The Nation, a piece about his relationship, as a Jewish American journalist, to the political conflicts in the Arab-spea…

Aug 15, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Howard Rosier

Jenn Shapland's new collection of essays, Thin Skin (Pantheon), probes the capacity of essay as a form to examine and question the lines we draw between ourselves and others, ourselves and the non-human world, and the past we’ve wrought with the present in which we live.

Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin” Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin”

An interview with the writer about her new collection of essays, Thin Skin, and her hopes for the life it takes on in the world.

Aug 15, 2023 / Q&A / Sara Franklin

A History of the Crack Epidemic From Below

A History of the Crack Epidemic From Below A History of the Crack Epidemic From Below

Donovan X. Ramsey explains how documenting the history of the drug war is a “community project” and looks back on 1990s rap music's anti-crack hits.

Aug 4, 2023 / Editorial / Naomi Elias

Esther Newton, left; Holly Hughes, right.

Surviving Hate Through Queer Kinship Surviving Hate Through Queer Kinship

Anthropologist Esther Newton and artist Holly Hughes tell Laura Flanders how they’ve flourished through decades of culture wars.

Aug 3, 2023 / Q&A / Laura Flanders

Black Refuge and the Novel of Ideas: A Conversation With Maya Binyam

Black Refuge and the Novel of Ideas: A Conversation With Maya Binyam Black Refuge and the Novel of Ideas: A Conversation With Maya Binyam

“Fiction is so incredibly rife with ethical questions.”

Aug 3, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho

Cornel West speaking at a lectern

Cornel West: The Christian Socialist Running for President Cornel West: The Christian Socialist Running for President

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, the candidate talks church, state, prophecy—and politics.

Jul 31, 2023 / Q&A / Wen Stephenson

Colin Kaepernick onstage at ACLU dinner

Colin Kaepernick’s Defense of Black Studies Colin Kaepernick’s Defense of Black Studies

The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback tells Dave Zirin why he’s raising the alarm about government attacks on Black history.

Jul 19, 2023 / Q&A / Dave Zirin

Common Sense Fiscal Policy or Austerity by Another Name?

Common Sense Fiscal Policy or Austerity by Another Name? Common Sense Fiscal Policy or Austerity by Another Name?

An interview with Clara E. Mattei about how liberal economists help quash working class movements and her new book The Capital Order. 

Jul 18, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

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