Art Is How We Remember What Power Wants Us to Forget Art Is How We Remember What Power Wants Us to Forget
At the steps of the Statue of Liberty on Sunday, I organized more than 50 people to turn our grief into a collective demand: Free the 238 men unlawfully disappeared into CECOT.
Jun 2, 2025 / Paola Mendoza
Elon Musk’s Real Drug Problem Is Much Worse Than You Think Elon Musk’s Real Drug Problem Is Much Worse Than You Think
What happens when you mix ketamine, ecstasy, and mushrooms with far-right ideology? Spoiler: The results aren’t pretty.
Jun 2, 2025 / Jeet Heer
One Solution to the Housing Crisis Is in Plain Sight One Solution to the Housing Crisis Is in Plain Sight
The shortage can be addressed not through costly new development but by reusing existing buildings.
Jun 2, 2025 / Kate Wagner
The Human Rights Crisis We’re Ignoring In Our Jails The Human Rights Crisis We’re Ignoring In Our Jails
Pregnant people are undergoing constant horrors at the hands of the carceral state, and the laws we’ve passed aren’t helping enough.
Jun 2, 2025 / Ira Memaj
My Kindergarten Class Taught Me What’s Really at Stake in “Mahmoud v. Taylor” My Kindergarten Class Taught Me What’s Really at Stake in “Mahmoud v. Taylor”
As the Supreme Court debates this case, I am reminded of the students I taught over two decades ago who gave me an invaluable lesson about what representation really means to them...
Jun 2, 2025 / George Theoharis
Famine in Gaza Famine in Gaza
People in Gaza are starving, sick, and dying as the aid blockade continues.
Jun 2, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
When the Red Scare Came for Jessica Mitford When the Red Scare Came for Jessica Mitford
A graphic episode from Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me.
Reclaiming Language: A Conversation With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Reclaiming Language: A Conversation With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas.
Jun 2, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Rhoda Feng
Who Does Nathan Fielder Think He Is? Who Does Nathan Fielder Think He Is?
The second season of his HBO series The Rehearsal—which tackles the crisis facing the aviation industry—is better understood as an extreme form of reality TV.
Jun 2, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
What Was “Expat Lit”? What Was “Expat Lit”?
American writers have long made European misadventures the stuff of fiction, but what does it mean to be an expatriate today? Andrew Lipstein’s Something Rotten is one answer.
Jun 2, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Oscar Dorr