Brianna Wu Is Used to Fighting Bullies

The Gamergate veteran tells The Nation why she’s challenging a Democratic incumbent in the Massachusetts congressional primary.

John Nichols

The Democratic Debates Don’t Need to Be This Awful

Progressive Democrats can and should demand deeper and sharper lines of questioning and more diverse moderators.

John Nichols

After the El Paso Massacre, the Choice Is Green Socialism or Eco-Fascism

The alleged shooter mixes standard Trumpian racism with Malthusian fascism.

Jeet Heer

Why Americans Should Support BDS

Inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, it calls for Palestinian liberation on terms of full equality with Israelis and categorically opposes all forms of racism...

Omar Barghouti

Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of Sleaze

Epstein’s scientist “friends” should have known better than to associate with a crackpot transhumanist.

Katha Pollitt

John Ratcliffe as a Director of National Intelligence Nominee

Calvin Trillin

Boris Johnson Interviewed Me for His Column. Here’s What Didn’t Make It Into Print.

On Brexit, race, and criminal justice, Britain’s new prime minister has always played both sides for maximum expediency.

Patricia J. Williams

Letters From the August 26-September 2, 2019, Issue

Eyes wide open… The other stain… Sanders’s exceptionalism?… Human rights v. propaganda (web only)…

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