What Amy Coney Barrett Means for the Future of Voting Rights What Amy Coney Barrett Means for the Future of Voting Rights
Unless we act, I fear a return to Jim Crow regime under which my grandparents and tens of millions of Black people suffered is inevitable.
Oct 26, 2020 / Mondaire Jones
Trump’s Message of Covid-19 Happy Talk Amounts to Surrender Trump’s Message of Covid-19 Happy Talk Amounts to Surrender
Practicing the power of positive thinking and flirting with herd immunity, Trump is endangering his own reelection bid at the cost of countless lives.
Oct 26, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Vote for What You Believe In Vote for What You Believe In
Words of optimism.
Oct 26, 2020 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
‘PEN15’ Is So Good It Hurts ‘PEN15’ Is So Good It Hurts
How the Hulu show reinvents the coming-of-age story.
Oct 26, 2020 / Quinn Moreland
Progressive Democrats Sweep Rhode Island Progressive Democrats Sweep Rhode Island
Challengers from the left ousted eight incumbents in the state’s Democratic primaries, and five more won open seats.
Oct 26, 2020 / Julia Rock and Harry August
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
Fewer and fewer reporters cover the local institutions whose decisions most directly affect their neighbors’ lives.
Oct 26, 2020 / Gwen Florio
Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey
The economist predicted that America would be hit harder than our peers by the Covid pandemic because we don’t have national paid leave.
Oct 26, 2020 / Bryce Covert
Checking the Systems That Hold Us Back Checking the Systems That Hold Us Back
On The Nation’s new podcast, System Check, hosts Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren set about diagnosing and repairing our malfunctioning democracy.
Oct 26, 2020 / Q&A / Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian T. Warren
Can Georgia’s Jon Ossoff Finish the Job This November? Can Georgia’s Jon Ossoff Finish the Job This November?
Donations to the Democrat’s campaign are surging, while his opponent, Senator David Perdue, is sinking under the weight of his (and Trump’s) bigotry.
Oct 26, 2020 / Joan Walsh
‘The Nation’ Launches ‘System Check,’ A New Podcast With Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren ‘The Nation’ Launches ‘System Check,’ A New Podcast With Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren
The latest addition to The Nation’s stable of popular podcasts seeks to diagnose and repair our malfunctioning democracy.
Oct 26, 2020 / Press Room