Books and Ideas

Why We Keep Reading “All Quiet on the Western Front”

Why We Keep Reading “All Quiet on the Western Front” Why We Keep Reading “All Quiet on the Western Front”

A new translation vividly renders the sadly evergreen influence of the Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel.

Dec 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

Jules Feiffer, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers

In Memoriam: Beautiful Writers, Influential Editors, Committed Activists In Memoriam: Beautiful Writers, Influential Editors, Committed Activists

A tribute to Nation family we lost this year—from Jules Feiffer to Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, and Peter and Cora Weiss

Dec 23, 2025 / Obituary / Richard Kreitner

Dev Hynes performing as Blood Orange.

Blood Orange’s Sonic Experiments Blood Orange’s Sonic Experiments

Dev Hynes moves between grief and joy in Essex Honey, his most personal album yet.

Dec 23, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen

How the Border Patrol Moved Inland—and Created a Police State

How the Border Patrol Moved Inland—and Created a Police State How the Border Patrol Moved Inland—and Created a Police State

In 1994, the writer Leslie Marmon Silko wrote a piece for The Nation warning of a frightening new immigration regime.

Dec 19, 2025 / Richard Kreitner

A still from the video of the 1992 police beating of Rodney King. LAPD chief Daryl Gates defended the department’s racist police regime until he was forced out in the wake of King’s beating.

Breaking the LAPD’s Choke Hold Breaking the LAPD’s Choke Hold

How the late-20th-century battles over race and policing in Los Angeles foreshadowed the Trump era.

Dec 17, 2025 / Feature / Danny Goldberg

Seattle, Washington, 2022.

Organized Labor at a Crossroads Organized Labor at a Crossroads

How can unions adapt to a new landscape of work?

Dec 17, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Nelson Lichtenstein

Nation Poetry

Tooqborni Tooqborni

Dec 17, 2025 / Poems / Peter Twal

Recently discharged Marine Faris Touhy recreates an image of him drinking a cup of coffee after two days of fighting on Eniwetok Atoll in February, 1944.

David Nasaw’s Unsparing Tour of America’s World War II and Its Aftermath David Nasaw’s Unsparing Tour of America’s World War II and Its Aftermath

A gimlet-eyed and honest accounting of the war’s hidden costs that still affect us today.

Dec 16, 2025 / Richard Parker

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel

Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.

Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman

The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance

The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance

What we can learn from a great American city’s refusal to bend to Trump’s invasion.

Dec 16, 2025 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols

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