Inequality

Karen Bass at news conference

Will LA’s New Mayor Karen Bass Reset the City’s Labor and Housing Markets? Will LA’s New Mayor Karen Bass Reset the City’s Labor and Housing Markets?

Or will her administration stand by as a series of high-profile sporting events turn the city into Doha on the Pacific?

Dec 2, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky

International Students

Why Do So Many International Students Leave the US? Why Do So Many International Students Leave the US?

There are nearly 1 million international students in the United States. Most want to stay in the country after graduation, yet less than half are able to do so.

Dec 2, 2022 / StudentNation / Madeline Armstrong

Biden receives Covid booster shot

Pandemic Year 3: Who’s Got the Power? Pandemic Year 3: Who’s Got the Power?

Has public health failed us? Or have we failed public health?

Dec 1, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Reverend William Barber’s Pastoral Letter to the Republican Party Reverend William Barber’s Pastoral Letter to the Republican Party

Remember the role your forebears played in America’s first Reconstruction.

Nov 30, 2022 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

Customers at Subway

Fast Food Runs in My Family Fast Food Runs in My Family

Me, my mother, and 10 years of the Fight for $15.

Nov 30, 2022 / Vanessa Ogle

John Fetterman with Josh Shapiro

A Tale of Two Campaigns in Pennsylvania A Tale of Two Campaigns in Pennsylvania

The Shapiro and Fetterman victories show there’s more than one way to win as a Democrat.

Nov 29, 2022 / Allison Troy and Jonathan Smucker

Nancy Fraser’s Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism

Nancy Fraser’s Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism Nancy Fraser’s Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism

She talked to The Nation about capitalism's evolutions and what the left can do to better prepare for the next political crisis.

Nov 29, 2022 / Q&A / Rhoda Feng

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, at the COP27 summit.

Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending.

Nov 25, 2022 / Tina Gerhardt

President Roosevelt about to carve a turkey

FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations FDR Served Up a Critique of Capitalism With His Thanksgiving Proclamations

The 32nd president regularly decried “greed and selfishness and striving for undue riches.”

Nov 24, 2022 / John Nichols

Counterprotesters rally in opposition to the Kentucky ballot initiative to add an anti-abortion amendment to the state’s constitution

How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky How We Beat an Anti-Abortion Amendment in Deep-Red Kentucky

The key was organizing, through which volunteers connected deeply, authentically, and vulnerably with voters who didn’t agree with them yet.

Nov 23, 2022 / Erin Heaney

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