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“The Worst Abuser You Could Ever Have”

Tracy McCarter did everything we tell survivors to do, but that did not protect her from the abuse she suffered at the hands of the state.

Victoria Law

The Artwork of Guantánamo Detainees

Interrogated, tortured, and held for decades without charges, Gitmo prisoners held onto their humanity by creating art.

Erin L. Thompson

Journey to Guantánamo: A Week in America’s Notorious Penal Colony

A journalist heads to the US naval base and detention center, seeking out truths we’re not meant to see.

Moustafa Bayoumi

Does Building Luxury Condos Create More Affordable Housing?

Brian Hanlon and Ned Resnikoff write that building market-rate housing lowers prices for everyone while John Washington and Tara Raghuveer argue that the private sector can’t fix itself.

Brian Hanlon, Ned Resnikoff, John Washington and Tara Raghuveer

Cuba One Year After the Protests

Twelve months after nationwide demonstrations galvanized by deep economic discontent, Cubans are still waiting for change.

William M. LeoGrande

How the Supreme Court Became the Extreme Court

During the past 30 years, Republicans began stacking the court with a new kind of justice—the zealot who not only ignores precedent but ignores reality itself.

Elie Mystal for The Nation

48 Hours on the Abortion Hotline After “Roe” Fell

By Friday afternoon, nine states were enforcing total bans on abortion. The volunteers who connect people seeking abortion to resources heard a wave of desperation from callers.

Amy Littlefield

Bullying, Shaming, and Legislating Against LGBTQ People Are on the Rise

The right is again firing up a sex and gender panic.

Kali Holloway

The Rise of Bad Art and the Decline of Political Candor

Though the language of cliché has switched from the middle-class respectability of the 1950s to our current obsessions with “inclusion” and concern for the marginalized, the practice of washing our clean linen in public endures in our culture.

David Bromwich

Tove Ditlevsen’s Unsentimental Education

The Danish novelist and poet was a rare writer—one who shunned sentiment but not empathy in her stories.

Lily Meyer

The Gilded Age of Magazines

The decline and fall of the glossy.

Kevin Lozano

The Democrats at a Crossroads

Michael Kazin’s new book examines the contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

Nicholas Lemann

We Are All God’s Poems

Amit Majmudar

Self-Managed Abortion May Become More Important Than Ever

In our post-Roe world, we must be ready to make this option as safe as possible.

Regina Mahone