‘Like a Sunburn on Your Lungs’: How Does the Climate Crisis Impact Health? ‘Like a Sunburn on Your Lungs’: How Does the Climate Crisis Impact Health?
Children, pregnant people, and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and heat—but the impact is already being felt across every specialty of medicine.
Sep 16, 2019 / Emily Holden
Mitch McConnell’s Blood Oath Mitch McConnell’s Blood Oath
As the death toll mounts, he continues to profit.
Sep 16, 2019 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
An Astonishing New Cancer Memoir Brings Radical Politics to the Genre An Astonishing New Cancer Memoir Brings Radical Politics to the Genre
Anne Boyer’s The Undying insists on a Marxist and feminist reading of the disease, opposing narratives confined to individual triumph or tragedy.
Sep 16, 2019 / Alex Ronan
The Neo-Nazi Murder Haunting Germany The Neo-Nazi Murder Haunting Germany
The assassination of a local politician is waking up the country to the threat of the radical right.
Sep 16, 2019 / Feature / Jordan Stancil
Why Today’s UN Climate Action Summit Matters Why Today’s UN Climate Action Summit Matters
The media and climate activists must “name and shame” laggards, says the UN special envoy.
Sep 16, 2019 / Mark Hertsgaard
Have Americans Become More Conspiratorial? Have Americans Become More Conspiratorial?
In their new book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum argue that a new form of conspiracy thinking is consuming our culture in dangerous and alarming ways. But is it?
Sep 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Sophia Rosenfeld
The Israeli Elections Are a Referendum on Who Can Treat Palestinians Most Harshly The Israeli Elections Are a Referendum on Who Can Treat Palestinians Most Harshly
While Netanyahu’s talk of annexing parts of the West Bank caused a flurry, the reality is that few parties would oppose it.
Sep 16, 2019 / Diana Buttu
A New Beginning for Climate Reporting A New Beginning for Climate Reporting
Could it be that the press, especially the US press, is finally waking up to the climate story?
Sep 16, 2019 / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
Naomi Klein: ‘We Are Seeing the Beginnings of the Era of Climate Barbarism’ Naomi Klein: ‘We Are Seeing the Beginnings of the Era of Climate Barbarism’
The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes, and how she finds hope.
Sep 15, 2019 / Natalie Hanman
Notes From a Small Village: The Meet-and-Greet Notes From a Small Village: The Meet-and-Greet
This is the first of a year-long series of dispatches about life and politics in rural America, written by former Nation managing editor Karen Rothmyer.
Sep 13, 2019 / Karen Rothmyer