A DIY Cartoon for Your Post-Election Spiral A DIY Cartoon for Your Post-Election Spiral
Now, it’s just a waiting game.
Nov 3, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
Letters From the November 16/23, 2020, Issue Letters From the November 16/23, 2020, Issue
L'union fait la force… A familiar playbook… The fine print… Please don’t go!
Nov 3, 2020 / Our Readers
Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller
Hari Kunzru’s ambitious new novel Red Pill plumbs the depth of right-wing and liberal ideas as it tracks one man’s descent into a web-induced mania.
Nov 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano
What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free
Annelien de Dijn’s new book looks at how the modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.
Oct 29, 2020 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
The Supreme Court Has Never Been on the Side of Working People The Supreme Court Has Never Been on the Side of Working People
If Democrats could acknowledge it’s a political institution, they’d have a chance to harness its power.
Oct 29, 2020 / D.D. Guttenplan for The Nation
Welcome to the Trump Tower of Terror Welcome to the Trump Tower of Terror
Be very afraid.
Oct 27, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
Checking the Systems That Hold Us Back Checking the Systems That Hold Us Back
On The Nation’s new podcast, System Check, hosts Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren set about diagnosing and repairing our malfunctioning democracy.
Oct 26, 2020 / Q&A / Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian T. Warren
It’s Not Trump’s Job to Be Informed, Is It? It’s Not Trump’s Job to Be Informed, Is It?
Welcome to the longest two weeks in human history.
Oct 20, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
How Did We Get Here? How Did We Get Here?
Three new books by prominent liberal intellectuals—Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Let Them Eat Tweets, Robert B. Reich’s The System, and Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles’s ...
Oct 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Lemann
How Did American Cities Become So Unequal? How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?
A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
Oct 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein