Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm
Contrary to what conservative lawmakers argue, the Supreme Court will increase risks by upholding state bans on gender-affirming care.
Dec 13, 2024 / Aziza Ahmed and Joanna Wuest
What Was the Biggest Factor in Kamala Harris’s Defeat? What Was the Biggest Factor in Kamala Harris’s Defeat?
As progressives continue to debate the reasons for Harris's loss—it was the economy! it was the bigotry!—Isabella Weber and Elie Mystal duke out their opposing positions.
Dec 13, 2024 / The Debate / Isabella M. Weber and Elie Mystal
Prison Journalism Is Having a Renaissance. Rahsaan Thomas Is One of Its Champions. Prison Journalism Is Having a Renaissance. Rahsaan Thomas Is One of Its Champions.
Thomas and his colleagues at Empowerment Avenue are subverting the established narrative that prisoners are only subjects or sources, never authors of their own experience.
Dec 13, 2024 / Piper French
My Dystopian Novel Predicted Trump 2.0 My Dystopian Novel Predicted Trump 2.0
SOLIS was meant to serve as a warning of what could come. With Trump’s reelection, it should serve as a blueprint for the bravery and activism needed to fight back.
Dec 11, 2024 / Paola Mendoza
My Brother, Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun, Was Killed Because He Fed Gaza’s Starving People My Brother, Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun, Was Killed Because He Fed Gaza’s Starving People
His killing by Israel sent a chilling message that no one is safe, including humanitarians who stand in the way of Gaza’s erasure.
Dec 11, 2024 / Hani Almadhoun
Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Why Shirley Chisholm Was Right Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Why Shirley Chisholm Was Right
The California Democrat explains why, during her 25 years in Congress, it was important for her “to disrupt and dismantle and build something that’s equitable and just and right.”...
Dec 9, 2024 / Q&A / John Nichols
A 150-Year Critique of the Electoral College A 150-Year Critique of the Electoral College
As far back as the 1870s, The Nation opposed the existence of the Electoral College as "so grotesque as to be almost ludicrous.”
Nov 28, 2024 / Richard Kreitner
Where Do We Go From Here? Where Do We Go From Here?
Thinkers, activists, and writers share their ideas on how to respond to the coming Trump era.
Nov 26, 2024 / Nation Contributors
Some Post-Election Reminders Some Post-Election Reminders
We’re all still processing Harris’s defeat. Here are some points to keep in mind before the infighting gets too venomous.
Nov 26, 2024 / Robert L. Borosage for The Nation
Reckoning With the Election Results Reckoning With the Election Results
What went wrong—and what we have to do now.
Nov 26, 2024 / D.D. Guttenplan