The “Crisis” of Male Adolescence Is Nothing New The “Crisis” of Male Adolescence Is Nothing New
Boys don't need special treatment—it's entitlement that's getting them into trouble.
May 13, 2025 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Never Mind the Stock Market, the Economy Is Blinking a Big Warning Never Mind the Stock Market, the Economy Is Blinking a Big Warning
Tariff-induced higher prices and supply chain problems are just the start of the pain Trumponomics will inflict.
May 13, 2025 / Dean Baker for The Nation
Will the Creative Class Go MAGA? Will the Creative Class Go MAGA?
It may be hard to resist the lure of power and patronage.
May 13, 2025 / D.D. Guttenplan
India’s Attack on Pakistan Was a Strategic Flop India’s Attack on Pakistan Was a Strategic Flop
It was a conflict with no winners. But in the end, India lost.
May 12, 2025 / Hasan Ali
The Sky-High Corruption of Donald Trump The Sky-High Corruption of Donald Trump
The Democrats missed their first chance to spotlight Trump’s repeated violations of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. They shouldn’t miss their second.
May 12, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
What It Feels Like to Starve What It Feels Like to Starve
What we are witnessing now in Gaza is not a famine of nature. It is famine as a weapon of mass destruction.
May 12, 2025 / Mohammed R. Mhawish
Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished
The president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him.
May 12, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Israel Is Spiraling Israel Is Spiraling
The government’s genocidal fervor is ripping through the carefully constructed layers of self-delusion that power this country.
May 12, 2025 / Ori Goldberg
The Invention of Close Reading The Invention of Close Reading
By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?
May 12, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Dan Sinykin