Aída Chávez

Aída Chávez is The Nation’s D.C. correspondent. She was previously a congressional reporter at The Intercept. Chávez has also written for The Washington Post, The Hill, and Refinery29. She studied journalism and political science at Arizona State University and is currently in a heterodox economics master’s program at the City University of New York.

D.C. Correspondent

Ken Klippenstein

Ken Klippenstein is a reporter and The Nation's former D.C. correspondent.

Wilfred Chan

Wilfred Chan is a contributing writer to The Nation. He was previously a journalist based in Hong Kong.

Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column Morbid Symptoms. The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Th...

National Affairs Correspondent

Kali Holloway

Kali Holloway is a columnist for The Nation and the former director of the Make It Right Project, a new national campaign to take down Confederate monuments and tell the truth about history. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Time, AlterNet, Truthdig, The Huffington Post, The National Memo, Jezebel, Raw Story, and numerous other outlets.

Columnist

Ludwig Hurtado

Ludwig Hurtado is The Nation's executive producer and multimedia editor. He is also a writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, NBC News, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.

Multimedia Editor

Elie Mystal

Elie Mystal is The Nation’s justice correspondent—covering the courts, the criminal justice system, and politics—and the force behind the magazine’s monthly column “Objection!” He is also an Alfred Knobler Fellow at the Type Media Center. His first book, the best-selling Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, was released on March 1, 2022. Mystal is a graduate of Harvar...

Justice Correspondent & Columnist

Stephen Kearse

Stephen Kearse is a contributing writer for The Nation. He has contributed to The Baffler, Pitchfork, and The New York Times Magazine.

Contributing Writer

Erin Schwartz

Erin Schwartz is a contributing writer for The Nation. They write frequently on television, popular culture, and books.

Bijan Stephen

Bijan Stephen is a music critic for The Nation. He lives in New York and his other work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Esquire, and elsewhere.