Letters From the July/August 2025 Issue Letters From the July/August 2025 Issue
The radical Self… In defense of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon (online only)… George Foreman in a new light (online only)… Elon Musk’s apartheid influences (online only)…
Jun 10, 2025 / Our Readers
If Trump Could Make John Wayne the Head of Homeland Security, He Would If Trump Could Make John Wayne the Head of Homeland Security, He Would
Trump’s appeal stems from the way he combines restoration and revolution. His reactionary modernism may have beguiled Silicon Valley, but the rest of us should expect repression.
Happy 160th Anniversary to “The Nation”! Happy 160th Anniversary to “The Nation”!
Since 1865, we’ve held fast in our belief in the liberating power of simply telling people the truth.
Jun 10, 2025 / D.D. Guttenplan
These Dis-United States These Dis-United States
The country and the nation: Fifty writers and artists report on the states of our dis-union.
Jun 10, 2025 / Feature / Various Contributors
How America Failed the Unhoused How America Failed the Unhoused
Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor.
Jun 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Libby Watson
How the Low Culture of 1999 Predicted Modern America How the Low Culture of 1999 Predicted Modern America
On this episode of American Prestige, Ross Benes on the year that laid the groundwork for life as we know it.
Jun 10, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner
Trump Calls Up the Marines. Democracy Is in Danger. Trump Calls Up the Marines. Democracy Is in Danger.
The president is creating fake emergencies and then implementing real military interventions.
Jun 9, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky
MAGA’s Bogus Civilization Myth MAGA’s Bogus Civilization Myth
The Trump administration’s rhetoric echoes the same old fantasy of racial purity that animated the 20th-century right.
Jun 9, 2025 / Column / Chris Lehmann
Will Trump and Musk Bring the Whole MAGA Coalition Down With Them? Will Trump and Musk Bring the Whole MAGA Coalition Down With Them?
The rift between the former first buddies goes well beyond both men, intensifying fractures that have long lurked beneath MAGA’s surface.
Jun 9, 2025 / Laura Jedeed
Now That He’s Turned on Trump, Should Democrats Align With Elon Musk? Now That He’s Turned on Trump, Should Democrats Align With Elon Musk?
No! Hell no! Never! The enemy of your enemy is still a corrupt plutocrat who wants to destroy democracy.
Jun 9, 2025 / Jeet Heer