Subscribers Only The Epstein Survivors Are Demanding Accountability Now
The passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act is a big step—but its champions are keeping the pressure on.
Print Magazine
January 2026 Issue
Cover art by: Edel Rodriguez
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Editorial
Subscribers Only Are Cell Phones to Blame for the Youth Loneliness Epidemic?
David Landes argues that cell phones represent an isolated life whereas Kimberly Hassel blames a society unable to support or protect its youth for the loneliness crisis.
Subscribers Only How the Border Patrol Moved Inland—and Created a Police State
In 1994, the writer Leslie Marmon Silko wrote a piece for The Nation warning of a frightening new immigration regime.
How North Carolina Rose Up Against Trump’s Latest Anti-Immigrant Crackdown
“Operation Charlotte’s Web” may mobilize North Carolina’s working-class Latino members and allies to shift the political balance of power at the local, state, and national levels.
Backsliding in Belém
Petrostates at COP30 quash fossil fuel and deforestation phaseouts.
Column
The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy
In making frequent, ill use of the “shadow docket,” the high court is not just handing Trump policy victories. It’s upending the rule of law.
Subscribers Only Why Epstein’s Links to the CIA Are So Important
We won’t know the full truth about his crimes until the extent of his ties to US intelligence are clear.
Subscribers Only How the Groypers Hope to Remake Trump's GOP
The perilous politics behind the elevation of Nick Fuentes.
Letters
Letters From the January 2016 Issue
Malice aforethought… Sheep throat… Standing room only… Correction…
Feature
The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance
What we can learn from a great American city’s refusal to bend to Trump’s invasion.
Subscribers Only Mayor of LA to America: “Beware!”
Trump has made Los Angeles a testing ground for military intervention on our streets. Mayor Karen Bass says her city has become an example for how to fight back.
Subscribers Only Breaking the LAPD’s Choke Hold
How the late-20th-century battles over race and policing in Los Angeles foreshadowed the Trump era.
Subscribers Only The Fight to Keep New Orleans From Becoming “Everywhere Else”
Twenty years after Katrina, the cultural workers who kept New Orleans alive are demanding not to be pushed aside.
Subscribers Only Reclaiming Our Power, Redeeming the Work of Fools
These progressives fighting for our democracy know what has always been true: The people have the power.
What Your Cheap Clothes Cost the Planet
A global supply chain built for speed is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage.
Subscribers Only The Tunnel Home: A Story of Housing First
In the 1990s, a group of New Yorkers helped prove the effectiveness of a bold but simple approach to homelessness. Now Trump wants to end it.
Books & the Arts
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel
Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.
Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda
In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.
Subscribers Only Organized Labor at a Crossroads
How can unions adapt to a new landscape of work?
Subscribers Only The Remaking of Trump’s Washington, DC
The ballroom and his other proposed building projects are many things, but they are not exactly works of architecture.
Subscribers Only Blood Orange’s Sonic Experiments
Dev Hynes moves between grief and joy in Essex Honey, his most personal album yet.
