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June 16, 2021
Loss Runs Like a River Through My Life
On grief’s unequal racial burden, and the Internet as a vehicle to negotiate survival and turn collective grief into collective action.
Malkia Devich-Cyril
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June 14, 2021
Raoul Peck’s World
In Exterminate All the Brutes, Peck offers a bold new history of colonialism and violence.
Ed Morales
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June 14, 2021
Are Dems Incapable of Defending Democracy? Or Just Unwilling?
Bolstering voting rights is both urgent and popular. Yet for all his talk of “existential crisis,” Biden hasn’t turned up the heat on Manchin or Sinema.
Jeet Heer
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June 9, 2021
Democracy on a Ventilator
Two crises, two emergency lockdowns, but only one is called a matter of public health.
S. Eudora Smith
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June 8, 2021
What Joe Manchin Doesn’t Get About the GOP’s Voter Suppression
It’s central to Republicans’ political strategy, because their platform is an electoral loser.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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June 1, 2021
The Gilded Age’s Democratic Contradictions
A new history examines how the late 19th century’s raucous party system gave way to a more sedate and exclusionary political culture that erected more and more barriers to participation.
Eric Foner
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May 12, 2021
Chuck Schumer: ‘I Believe That Democracy Is at Risk and We Cannot Fail’
The Senate majority leader talks in a Nation exclusive about the night before the insurrection, his weekly leadership conference, and his timeline for passing major legislation like S 1.
John Nichols
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May 4, 2021
Ranked-Choice Voting Is Already Changing Politics for the Better
In an era of heated divisiveness, cynical punditry, and exhausting negativity in politics, we need to push for systemic electoral change.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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April 22, 2021
Fritz Mondale and Decency
Jimmy Carter thought the vice presidency was a “wasted national asset.” Walter Mondale, who died last week, changed that forever.
Kai Bird
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April 14, 2021
Undanced Dances During a Pandemic
From inside a California prison come choreographies of the mind.
Suchi Branfman