Trump Is Feeding the Monster Trump Is Feeding the Monster
Beware the thing that ate America’s brain!
Sep 22, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
‘The Nation’ Unveils New Look, New Logo With Inaugural Redesigned Issue, ‘The Drowned and the Saved’ ‘The Nation’ Unveils New Look, New Logo With Inaugural Redesigned Issue, ‘The Drowned and the Saved’
With 20 percent more pages in each issue, and four special double issues per year, the new Nation offers even more room for vivid reporting, rigorous debate, long-form analysis, an...
Sep 22, 2020 / Press Room
Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College? Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College?
The system that is nobody’s first choice.
Sep 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
The New Look of ‘The Nation’ The New Look of ‘The Nation’
Our print magazine’s relationship to the world we cover has changed—now so have we.
Sep 22, 2020 / D.D. Guttenplan
A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office A Collective Art Project to Support Your Local Post Office
Postcards for Democracy! Because we need the Postal Service on Election Day and every day.
Sep 22, 2020 / Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe
Tea Tea
I can’t get away from it. Felted-up reenactors shoving a great fake crate of it into the Harbor and jeering. After the tour group leaves, they fish it back out and towel it off, un…
Sep 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Natalie Shapero
Apocryphal Apocryphal
You made me crude because you were afraid and too easily in awe— but I also loved that about you, the sincerity of your love, the centrality of your worry. Had I intervened to priv…
Sep 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Phelps
At a Military Cemetery, Trump Reflects on His Only War Hero At a Military Cemetery, Trump Reflects on His Only War Hero
He was the very model of a neighborhood podiatrist. For he could find the bone spurs that these losers’ doctors always missed. So if your name was on the list of those he needed to…
Sep 22, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
My Life in the Media Machine My Life in the Media Machine
The corporate media isn’t interested in journalism. It’s up to journalists—and readers—to keep it alive.
Sep 21, 2020 / Tom Scocca
Stephen F. Cohen, 1938–2020 Stephen F. Cohen, 1938–2020
Мой Cтив (My Steve): A personal recollection of Stephen F. Cohen, who died on September 18 at the age of 81.
Sep 21, 2020 / Obituary / Katrina vanden Heuvel