Finally, someone in the administration is paying for their cruelty and incompetence.

Not even soccer is immune from Trump’s reverse Midas touch.

With a weak social safety net, a gun offers a false sense of personal power and security.

The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know.

Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting

With plans for city-owned grocery stores and a focus on affordability, the new mayoral administration offers fresh hopes of successfully confronting the food crisis among students.

This year’s Oscar-nominated international feature films—especially The Secret Agent and Sirāt—tackle what it means to live and die under tyranny.

By pandering to the president’s vanity, the New York mayor reinforced Trump’s image as a strongman commanding deference—an especially bad look on the eve of Trump’s war with Iran

Climate change is not a peripheral part of what we’re seeing in Iran—it’s structurally embedded in modern warfare.

The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.

As Israel’s role in pushing the war with Iran comes into ever sharper focus, it’s up to us to turn outrage into change.

She claims to be a free speech champion. But as her actions at CBS News keep showing, she seems to think free speech should run only in a rightward direction.

In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he reveals what the dictionary can still tell us about language in modern life

The precedent being set by the US in launching this war of aggression against Iran will long live in infamy.

UT-Austin has collapsed its race, ethnic, and gender studies into a single program while a new policy asks faculty to avoid “controversial” topics. But the attacks won’t end there.

Journalist Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers traces how the Internet affected daily life in China, showing how similar this corner of the Web is to the one experienced in the West.

Donald Trump’s attack may be surreal, unjustified, and illegal. But that’s not stopping the press from turning the propaganda dial way up.

The response to what could be the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 21st century is foot-dragging, silence, and sleepy, feigned opposition long after the deed is done.

The former Harvard president and Treasury secretary has resigned over humiliating disclosures in the Epstein files. But will that be enough to keep an ardent neoliberal down?

Congress has a duty to take up War Powers resolutions and assert its primacy over matters of war and peace.

This war looks designed to cause maximum chaos and instability. The world will pay a high price.

As a candidate, Zohran Mamdani made promises to New York City’s trans community. With two hospital systems ending trans youth care, he’s now facing his first test.

Only the total abolition of the DHS can restore freedom.

Keeping its distance from the novel, Emerald Fennell’s film ends up offering us a mirror of our own times.

We need to listen to those who oppose both the Islamic Republic’s authoritarianism and foreign military escalation.

The US has waged many wars—but this is one of the most senseless we've ever seen.

I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary.

The candidate may have started as a long-shot contender, but The Nation always took him—and his impact on political history—seriously.

In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores how Trump’s State of the Union turned authoritarian violence into a titillating event. Plus Kansas’s vile ban on driving-while-trans and XBox’s depressing AI turn.

The Vietnam-era practice is yet another example of ICE agents thrilling to the brutality they have been encouraged to cultivate.

Downfall.

The world’s largest crypto exchange often operates beyond the reach of the law. Now it’s helping to enrich the Trump family.

Industry partnerships in higher education are pushing STEM graduates into the business of weapons manufacturing and genocide profiteering.

Whether or not you have access to independent, scientifically sound public health guidance may depend on how your state voted for governor.

It was most mendacious State of the Union in US history. It was also the longest.

An interview with Representative Jim McGovern.

In his majority ruling in a sleeper case about mail delivery, Thomas opened the door to a new way for Republicans to suppress the Black vote.

The mayor mobilized New York's resources nimbly and creatively. Now, on to the budget

Bloomberg Green reveals the climate costs of the US-Japan trade deal.

Although climate change received no attention during the president’s speech, Americans must continue to find new ways of making progress against the ongoing environmental crisis.

Administration officials and their collaborators must know that if they break the law they will be punished. There must not be impunity for those attacking our democracy.

After putting on their very best performances of solidarity every Black History Month, this year corporate marketers have seemed at a loss for words.

Claire Baglin’s bracing On the Clock gives its readers a close look at work behind the fry station, and in the process asks what experiences are missing from mainstream letters.

We are seeing yet another example of state-sanctioned violence against the reproductive futures of those deemed outside the national body.

Time to save America from the SAVE America Act.

The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

The German auteur’s recent book presents a strange, idiosyncratic vision of the concept of “truth,” one that defines how he sees the world and his art.

The Brazilian star Vinicius Jr. has repeatedly been a victim of racist abuse from soccer fans. Now, it seems such vitriol can even come from players without much consequence.

How winning people’s trust involves listening to their challenges, ambition, ideas, and stories.

An increasingly unpopular Trump lurched from plodding teleprompter readings to gothic MAGA fantasies in his long-winded speech.

Within hours of losing the case, President Trump declared a new global tariff under a different statute.

The progressive representative from Pennsylvania will speak truth to Trump’s power tonight.

The 6–3 decision was a rare victory, but it was crafted out of conflicts that leave almost nothing certain—including future tariff rulings.

In James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, he questions the limits of human hegemony and our misplaced sense that we have any control over the Earth’s depleted watershed.

The secretary of state has provoked the ire of Britain’s first black woman lawmaker and put the spotlight once again on how the US has historically treated people of his own heritage.

What’s a flopping demagogue to do? Lash out at his enemies, pretend he’s doing great, and bore us all into submission.

The mayor announced that the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection will investigate employers where more than half their workers take no paid time off in a given year.

Boris Kagarlitsky and hundreds of unknown political prisoners remain in Russia’s prisons.

The real Olympic heroes were the athletes who stood up for each other—and against Trump.

Remarkably, Trump seems on the verge of outdoing George W. Bush in reckless, stupid militarism.

Field workers’ highway blockades send a warning to Mexico’s president.

Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction tells the story of how a critical mineral became the focus of a worldwide battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism.

As for virtually all SNAP recipients, my benefits have never been enough to cover monthly food expenses. Meanwhile, Trump calls any food aid at all “un-American.”

The president went on a wild rant alleging that the justices who struck down his tariffs were part of a vast global conspiracy to destroy him.

The thing.

The Gender Liberation Movement’s Raquel Willis says trans youth “are our future” and that new HHS rules amount to a national ban on gender-affirming care for young people.

The Boss’s most political tour yet will go from Minneapolis to Washington.

The president wants you to know he had a Black friend, sort of.

Two years after Trump’s infamous invitation to the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention, the organization is adapting and bracing for escalating hostility.

The right’s moral charade was always going to be undone by the Trump of it all.

Analilia Mejia’s upset victory in New Jersey offers invaluable insights about the past and present of liberal politics in America.

MAGA’s hate machine is—at least temporarily—sputtering.

The very notion of public service journalism is under assault at precisely the moment that it’s most needed.

Using an old playbook with powerful new tools, it may be closer than ever to turning a US–Iran war into reality.

The government has pulled back from massive cuts to the NIH, but it’s still destroying scientific research. So why are some groups appeasing the president?

The second season tackles everything from the role of AI in medicine to Medicaid cuts. But above all, it is about burnout.

Jackson’s lessons for today’s Democrats.

For all the good news, Democrats are at a dangerous moment politically.

The mayor, the governor, and the members of the city’s big-ticket tax base are all squaring off over prospective tax increases and service cuts.

How going it alone reduces our own sovereignty.

As Trump continues to dismantle federal agencies, this state shows what happens when a one-party-controlled government makes sweeping public health changes with little resistance.

We would be wise to follow the path he forged.

His films show how a regime’s wrongdoing can upend one’s sense of self and transform the very rhythm of daily life.

US politicians flooded the summit—but Europe no longer sees the United States as a reliable partner.

Fear but no panic on the streets.

The network tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration’s assaults on the First Amendment.

The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.