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New York Governor Kathy Hochul

Hochul Is Using Public Money to Defend Cuomo Hochul Is Using Public Money to Defend Cuomo

New York’s governor has retained a firm to challenge her own attorney general’s report on her disgraced predecessor’s predations.

Jul 31, 2024 / Column / Alexis Grenell

a pensive Joe Manchin

Manchin Is Leaving the Senate Manchin Is Leaving the Senate

Jul 30, 2024 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Workers digging a hole to install a cable

Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout” Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout”

Working- and middle-class Americans take pride in their work. If Democrats want to win their votes, they need to acknowledge and appeal to that pride, not dismiss or patronize it....

Jul 23, 2024 / Column / Erica Etelson

Marchers at a racial justice protest, with several holding up portraits of George Floyd.

We’re Caught in Another Cycle of Racial Progress and Retrenchment We’re Caught in Another Cycle of Racial Progress and Retrenchment

The racial justice uprisings in 2020 led to some minor achievements—and a major backlash.

Jul 16, 2024 / Column / Kali Holloway

Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden

Résumés Don’t Win Elections Résumés Don’t Win Elections

The Democratic Party has a habit of staking its electoral hopes on its candidates’ credentials. Do voters care?

Jul 15, 2024 / Column / Chris Lehmann

Screenshot of CGI image in proposal titled “From Crisis to Prosperity.”

The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai

The Netanyahu administration seems to have learned from neighboring petrostates that spectacle can distract from ethnic cleansing.

Jul 9, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner

Joe Biden and Jill Biden

Running Biden Against Trump Is Just Plain Irresponsible Running Biden Against Trump Is Just Plain Irresponsible

If American democracy is on the line, as Democrats have rightly insisted, why nominate someone who has trouble keeping up with his opponent?

Jul 3, 2024 / Column / Sasha Abramsky

Metaphorical Advice to Those Who Want to Be Donald Trump’s Running Mate

Metaphorical Advice to Those Who Want to Be Donald Trump’s Running Mate Metaphorical Advice to Those Who Want to Be Donald Trump’s Running Mate

Jul 2, 2024 / Column / Calvin Trillin

John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon stand at podiums during one of their four debates in 1960.

The Lost Lessons of the First Televised Presidential Debates The Lost Lessons of the First Televised Presidential Debates

In 1960, The Nation asked a collection of thinkers and critics to grapple with the significance of the televised debates between Nixon and Kennedy. Here’s what they said.

Jun 27, 2024 / Column / Richard Kreitner

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is bowman-flag-getty.jpg Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) lost his bid for reelection to New York’s 16th Congressional District.

Jamaal Bowman Didn’t Lose Because of AIPAC Jamaal Bowman Didn’t Lose Because of AIPAC

Their astonishing spending mattered less than how the congressman’s Jewish constituents weighed his words and actions.

Jun 26, 2024 / Column / Alexis Grenell

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