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Amazon delivery driver Leah Cross has alleged that Amazon’s delivery quota amounts to workplace discrimination. Here, a Lakewood, Colorado, driver makes deliveries in 2023.

The EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand The EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand

The agency is unlawfully giving up on fighting disparate impact discrimination—meaning it’s “open season” on employees.

Dec 16, 2025 / Bryce Covert

Demonstrators at the Indiana Statehouse denounce the proposed mid-decade gerrymander promoted by the Trump administration.

Indiana’s Gerrymander Victory Won’t Save Us Indiana’s Gerrymander Victory Won’t Save Us

The Hoosier State’s Senate showed rare backbone in resisting the Trump White House’s demand for a mid-cycle gerrymander. But the Roberts court gets the final say.

Dec 15, 2025 / David Daley

People pause outside of the engineering and physics building at Brown University, the site of a mass shooting that left at least two people dead and nine others injured the day before, December 14, 2025, in Providence, Rhode Island.

In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace

A growing number of US residents have lived through more than one massacre.

Dec 15, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Noam Chomsky delivers a speech in the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, May 30, 2014.

What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us

Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”

Dec 15, 2025 / Greg Grandin

Regina Treitler and her husband.

The Supreme Court v. My Mother The Supreme Court v. My Mother

After my mother escaped the Holocaust, she broke the law to save her family. Her immigration story is more pertinent today than ever before.

Dec 13, 2025 / Leo Treitler

What to Do With the Ballroom in 2029?

What to Do With the Ballroom in 2029? What to Do With the Ballroom in 2029?

Kristi Kremed.

Dec 12, 2025 / Steve Brodner

The Supreme Court Has a Serial Killer Problem

The Supreme Court Has a Serial Killer Problem The Supreme Court Has a Serial Killer Problem

In this week's Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent recaps a major death penalty case that came before the high court as well as the shenanigans of a man who’s angling...

Dec 12, 2025 / Elie Mystal

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks at a news conference at the Capitol on December 1, 2025.

Corporate Democrats Are Foolishly Surrendering the AI Fight Corporate Democrats Are Foolishly Surrendering the AI Fight

Voters want the party to get tough on the industry. But Democratic leaders are following the money instead.

Dec 12, 2025 / Jeet Heer

A farmer feeds cattle in Montrose, Missouri.

White Farmers Are Getting a Taste of Their Own Medicine White Farmers Are Getting a Taste of Their Own Medicine

Trump’s tariffs and immigration raids are driving the latest farm crisis. White farmers have stood by him year after year—and still do.

Dec 12, 2025 / Kali Holloway

A still from the doomed McDonald's AI-generated holiday ad.

The Slop of Things to Come The Slop of Things to Come

This past week boasted many overhyped AI breakthroughs, but the healthiest one was the fierce repudiation of a contemptuous McDonald’s ad.

Dec 12, 2025 / Matt Alston

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