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How to Kill the Oil Hydra—and Other Lessons From the Fight Against Keystone XL

What the Indigenous-led victory over Keystone XL tells us about the struggle to stop oil pipelines.

David Treuer

Misinformation Is Destroying Our Country. Can Anything Rein It In?

Trump is gone, but the right-wing media is alive and well—and will further undermine our democracy if we let it. 

Zoë Carpenter

How Covid Transformed US Theater

The art form has been forced to reinvent itself.

Alisa Solomon

American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror

History must be acknowledged before justice can be done.

Channing Gerard Joseph

Representative Mark Pocan on Amazon and ‘the Arrogance of Corporations That Get Too Big’

The Wisconsin representative whom Amazon attacked talks about the company’s self-serving apology, the Bessemer union vote, and the PRO Act.

John Nichols

We Should Shame Frequent Fliers

Pre-pandemic travel habits were destroying the earth. They must never be allowed to return.

Rafia Zakaria

Biden’s First Hundred Days: A Historical Audit

The president has made a promising start on a historically bold agenda. But to deliver, he’ll need to do more to explain how we got here, who is to blame—and what needs to be done.

Robert L. Borosage for The Nation

Dear Media, Let’s Treat the Climate Emergency Like the Pandemic Emergency

Journalism must reflect what science says.

Mark Hertsgaard

Minneapolis Grieves for George Floyd

With the murder trial for officer Derek Chauvin underway, these photos show how activists continue to honor him and other victims of police violence.

Tim Evans, Anna DalCortivo and Alyssa Oursler

In Derek Chauvin’s Trial, Will We Finally Get Justice?

Despite the extraordinarily clear evidence of police misconduct, a conviction in this case is far from assured.

Kali Holloway

Notes on Cant—and Other Ways of Saying What We Don’t Mean

A close relative of hypocrisy, cant speech conceals the iron fist of conformity inside the velvet glove of cliche.

David Bromwich

Was Marx Also a Social Democrat?

In a new book, Shlomo Avineri explores the social democratic impulses and Jewish origins of Karl Marx.

Bruce Robbins

Joe From Scranton

Since Biden has taken office, he has signed a wide array of legislation into law. But once the more immediate emergencies have passed, will he have the will and desire to enact a set of more radical and permanent policies? 

Kim Phillips-Fein

A Poem

Jos Charles

Overture to a Tragedy

Kim Ok & translated by Ryan Choi

Pharoah Sanders’s Grand Return

A new collaboration with electronic producer Floating Points has led to a modern-day masterpiece for the jazz master.

Marcus J. Moore

Letters From the May 3/10, 2021, Issue

Disability access… Where is the joy?… Calexit vs. the filibuster… Black sci-fi worldmaking…

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