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The Colorful Block in 2025.

Gaza Is Still Here Gaza Is Still Here

Despite a “ceasefire,” Israel’s killing has not ended. Neither has the determination of the Palestinian people to survive.

Feb 10, 2026 / Feature / Rayan El Amine, Lizzy Ratner, and Jack Mirkinson

Mayor Mamdani walks inside Kreyol Flavor with its owner, Cursy Saint Surin, in the neighborhood of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, on October 25, 2025.

Mayor Mamdani Offers a Progressive Vision for Small Businesses Mayor Mamdani Offers a Progressive Vision for Small Businesses

If successful, his policies might offer a new nationwide playbook.

Feb 10, 2026 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Nation Poetry

Rome, take your amethyst back Rome, take your amethyst back

Feb 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Ricardo Maldonado

Nation Poetry

How to Build a Moon Garden When the News Is All Horror How to Build a Moon Garden When the News Is All Horror

Feb 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Sunnyside Yard circa 1971.

Sunnyside Yard and the Quest for Affordable Housing in New York Sunnyside Yard and the Quest for Affordable Housing in New York

Constructing new residential buildings, let alone those with rental units that New Yorkers can afford, is never an easy task.

Feb 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Karrie Jacobs

The Riotous Worlds of Thomas Pynchon

The Riotous Worlds of Thomas Pynchon The Riotous Worlds of Thomas Pynchon

From “The Crying Lot of 49” to his latest noirs, the American novelist has always proceeded along a track strangely parallel to our own.

Feb 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel

Supporters of abortion rights rallied outside the Supreme Court on April 2, 2025.

What the Pro-Choice Movement Can Learn From Those Who Overturned “Roe” What the Pro-Choice Movement Can Learn From Those Who Overturned “Roe”

The anti-abortion movement was methodical and radical at the same time. The abortion-rights movement must be too.

Feb 10, 2026 / Amy Littlefield

Civil defense teams carry out operations to recover the bodies of five members of the Abu Nida family who were trapped under the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli attacks on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza Strip on February 0, 2026.

To Build Bridges, We Must Block the Bombs To Build Bridges, We Must Block the Bombs

Brad Lander in The Nation: “When I am elected to Congress, I will support the Block the Bombs Act to protect more Palestinians from being killed by Israel.”

Feb 10, 2026 / Brad Lander

Bad Bunny performs during the halftime show for Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium on February 8, 2026.

Bad Bunny’s Technicolor Halftime Stole the Super Bowl Bad Bunny’s Technicolor Halftime Stole the Super Bowl

The Puerto Rican artist’s performance was a gleeful rebuke of Trump’s death cult and a celebration of life.

Feb 9, 2026 / Dave Zirin

1933 Revisited

1933 Revisited 1933 Revisited

Trump’s ICE agents terrorize American citizens unchecked.

Feb 9, 2026 / OppArt / Gary Taxali

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