Massachusetts’s Governor Is Playing an Ugly Game of Covid Politics With Teachers’ Lives Massachusetts’s Governor Is Playing an Ugly Game of Covid Politics With Teachers’ Lives
Governor Charlie Baker’s attack on education unions for wanting vaccines for teachers recalls Scott Walker’s crude anti-labor politics.
Mar 15, 2021 / John Nichols
How One Cozy Relationship Influenced Cuomo’s Covid Response How One Cozy Relationship Influenced Cuomo’s Covid Response
The story begins before the coronavirus hit New York state.
Mar 12, 2021 / Ross Barkan
Byproducts of the Pandemic Byproducts of the Pandemic
An ocean of garbage.
Mar 12, 2021 / OppArt / Janis Selby Jones
VIDEO Ben Jealous Makes the Case for Immediate Democracy Reform VIDEO Ben Jealous Makes the Case for Immediate Democracy Reform
Ben Jealous, president of People For the American Way, joined The Nation for an intimate conversation about how democracy reform is fundamental to every other policy change he and…
Mar 12, 2021 / The Nation
Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past
It’s past time to give the narratives of the 20th century a decent burial. Doing so may be a precondition for our very survival.
Mar 12, 2021 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Democrats Make a Down Payment on a Radically More Just Economy Democrats Make a Down Payment on a Radically More Just Economy
The American Rescue Plan goes beyond Covid relief to address the deep inequities the pandemic revealed. Will those changes be a Band-Aid, or heal a broken system?
Mar 11, 2021 / Joan Walsh
Stacey Plaskett’s ‘How Dare You?’ Indictment Demolished a Dog-Whistling Republican Stacey Plaskett’s ‘How Dare You?’ Indictment Demolished a Dog-Whistling Republican
After Glenn Grothman claimed advocates for Black lives don’t like “the old-fashioned family,” Plaskett gave him no quarter.
Mar 11, 2021 / John Nichols
Vivian Gornick in Reverse Vivian Gornick in Reverse
A conversation with the writer about her life and work.
Mar 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party? Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party?
Regardless of which party is in power, US foreign policy since 9/11 has meant a unified government under the masters of war.
Mar 11, 2021 / Column / David Bromwich