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How Profiteers Hijacked the CDC’s Covid Response

Mass death was turned into a business opportunity.

Nina Burleigh

How Teachers Fought for Their Safety in the Pandemic—and Won

As the debate over in-person schooling roiled, teachers’ unions secured significant protections­—often with parents’ support.

Bryce Covert

Meet the Woman Who Would Transform the Nation’s Most Powerful DA’s Office

The Manhattan district attorney’s office is a vital cog in New York City’s vast incarceration machine. Tahanie Aboushi is running to change that.

Moustafa Bayoumi

The California Prosecutors Who Want to Keep People Out of Jail

In the state that once pioneered the punitive Three Strikes policy, a coalition of recently elected district attorneys is pushing back against mass incarceration.

Sasha Abramsky

Will the GOP Scaremonger Us Out of Child Care and Family Leave?

Biden’s big proposals are popular, even with Republicans. So to oppose them, GOP leaders aren’t looking at the future; they’re looking way back.

Joan Walsh

We’re Suing Google. Here’s Why.

Together with The Progressive and Genius Media Group, Inc., we’re fighting back against the tech giant’s predatory pricing and monopoly practices that put independent journalism at risk.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Sharing the Vaccine Is Just the First Step

Now we need to make sure poorer countries have the resources and technical capacity to ramp up production.

Gregg Gonsalves for The Nation

Was the Failed Union Drive in Bessemer a Net Positive for the Labor Movement?

Will it demonstrate the need for labor law reform—or will it scare workers away from organizing?

Alex Han and Adam Ryan

Brett Kavanaugh Remains As Incorrigible as Ever

In a recent decision, the man who argued he shouldn’t be judged by his youthful indiscretions had no problem sending young people to prison for life without parole.

Elie Mystal

Jordan Peterson’s New Rules Are Old News

The Canadian contrarian is back with another book. It isn’t any better than the last one.

Katha Pollitt

Why Trump Still Insists That He Won the Election

Calvin Trillin

Why Do We Eat Bad Food?

Mark Bittman’s new history looks at the economy and politics of junk food.

Bill McKibben

Richard Wagner’s Pandemonium

The contested life and afterlife of the composer.

Mina Tavakoli

The City That Embodies the United States’ Contradictions

In the history of St. Louis, we find both a radical and reactionary past—and a more hopeful future too.

Robert Greene II

The Craft of John Edgar Wideman

A conversation with one of the greatest living Black American writers on work, life, and why good fiction is like a game of basketball.

Elias Rodriques