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The Disturbing World of the New GOP

The 2022 midterms saw the Republican Party complete its devolution into a party that has fully abandoned its conscience.

John Nichols

The Minnesota Workers Who Are Still Searching for Justice

A crew of mostly Indigenous workers faced inhumane conditions at a burial recovery site in northern Minnesota. They refuse to give up fighting for justice.

Cinnamon Janzer

When the NYPD Gets Desperate

In a high-profile murder case, New York police swabbed hundreds of Black men, illegally used a private DNA lab, and then concealed their tactics.

Amos Barshad

Dismantling Bretton Woods to Pay the Climate Bill

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending.

Tina Gerhardt

Can Raphael Warnock Win an Even Tougher Runoff Election?

The Georgia Senate race is again in a runoff election. But this time around, it’s a lot harder for voters to participate.

Joan Walsh for The Nation

Nancy Fraser’s Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism

She talked to The Nation about capitalism’s evolutions and what the left can do to better prepare for the next political crisis.

Rhoda Feng

I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You.

Twitter is an effective tool for challenging the status quo and powerful people and institutions. That’s why Elon Musk snatched it up.

Olayemi Olurin

This Supreme Court Case Is a Case Study in Conservative Hypocrisy

Just weeks after railing against race-conscious college admissions, the justices entertained a bogus race-based argument aimed at undermining Native sovereignty.

Elie Mystal

The Agenda of House Republicans

Calvin Trillin

Democrats Shouldn’t Take Women Voters for Granted

Far from alienating the electorate, an emphasis on abortion rights delivered victory.

Katha Pollitt

Can the Origins of Today’s Right Be Traced to the 1990s?

While some might remember the 1990s as an era of good feelings, Nicole Hemmer’s Partisans argues that this period coincided with the rise of a more combative conservative movement.

John Ganz

What the Grimkes’s Family History Tells Us About the United States

In The Grimkes, historian Kerri Greenidge offers a powerful and unique account of this family’s history—an account that offers tales of slavery, violence, loss, resilience, and redemption.

Kellie Carter Jackson

The World John von Neumann Built

Game theory, computers, the atom bomb—these are just a few of things von Neumann played a role in developing, changing the 20th century for better and worse.

David Nirenberg