Closing Rikers Is Long Overdue Closing Rikers Is Long Overdue
Mass decarceration is exactly what’s needed to ensure that people aren’t simply being shuttled from one inhumane situation to another.
Nov 2, 2021 / Victoria Law for The Nation
Do We Need Faith as the World Feels Like It’s Ending? Do We Need Faith as the World Feels Like It’s Ending?
Barbara Sostaita writes that religion helps people envision a more just world while Phil Zuckerman argues that faith can lead to pious inaction.
Oct 29, 2021 / The Debate / Barbara Sostaita and Phil Zuckerman
Joe Manchin Is Reviving Harmful Myths About Poverty Joe Manchin Is Reviving Harmful Myths About Poverty
The Democratic Party has finally recognized that income inequality, not “dependency,” is what’s harming families. But Manchin is still pushing that 1990s-era belief.
Oct 28, 2021 / Joan Walsh
In Our Orbit: Dave Zirin’s “The Kaepernick Effect” In Our Orbit: Dave Zirin’s “The Kaepernick Effect”
The Nation’s sports editor has a new book out on the politics of “taking a knee.”
Oct 21, 2021 / Peter Rothberg
To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them
Land-based nuclear weapons are world-ending accident waiting to happen, and completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent.
Oct 19, 2021 / Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon
Poverty Can Happen to Anyone Poverty Can Happen to Anyone
Our new podcast, Going for Broke, lets Americans living on the edge have the last word.
Oct 18, 2021 / Podcast / Ray Suarez
Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible. Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible.
Critics of the American Rescue Plan made two dire predictions. Both proved wrong.
Oct 15, 2021 / Mike Konczal
There Are No Borders for the Rich There Are No Borders for the Rich
For the ruling class, the nation-state is an indispensable fiction.
Oct 15, 2021 / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for The Nation
Biden’s Immigration Policy Picks Up Where Trump Left Off Biden’s Immigration Policy Picks Up Where Trump Left Off
The administration is carrying out mass expulsions cribbed straight from the Stephen Miller playbook.
Sep 30, 2021 / Aída Chávez for The Nation
Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist? Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist?
Two OWS participants debate the ideology at the core of the anti-capitalist movement.
Sep 21, 2021 / The Debate / Natasha Lennard and Nikil Saval