Cornel West Should Run as a Democrat

If he wants to go beyond preaching to the converted, he needs to take his socialist politics into the Democratic primaries.

D.D. Guttenplan and Bhaskar Sunkara

Donald Trump Goes Apocalyptic

Confronted with a long-overdue legal reckoning, the former president's rhetoric has only gotten more extreme.

Chris Lehmann

Is It Useful to Analyze Politics in Terms of Generations?

Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can provide clues to the operation of class while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it can obscure historically specific social relations.

Keir Milburn and Adolph Reed Jr.

The Anti-Abortion Movement Gets a Dose of Post-“Roe” Reality

A year after the Dobbs decision, some leaders in the movement are contending with the fact that abortion bans are more unpopular, and far less effective, than they expecte...

Amy Littlefield

Putin, Prigozhin, and Russia’s Future

Caution should be our guiding principle.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Supreme Court Has Killed Affirmative Action. Mediocre Whites Can Rest Easier.

The court ended one of our most effective social justice policies because anything that isn’t seen to primarily benefit white people is anathema to this country.

Elie Mystal for The Nation

The Masculinity of Lucas Kunce’s Bid for the US Senate

His campaign is a rebuke to Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s toxic vision of manhood.

Alexis Grenell

The Other Kennedy Curse

Kennedy family mythology is bad history, bad politics—and perhaps as unfair to the living Kennedys as to anyone else.

Jeet Heer

Chris Christie Declares

Calvin Trillin