Books and Ideas

Who Gave Away the Skies to the Airlines?

Who Gave Away the Skies to the Airlines? Who Gave Away the Skies to the Airlines?

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.

Mar 11, 2025 / Feature / Elie Mystal

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk joins President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.

The Ballad of Elon Musk The Ballad of Elon Musk

Mar 11, 2025 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller

The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller The Cruel World According to Stephen Miller

How did he become the Trump era’s architect of hate? 

Mar 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David Klion

Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza?

Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza? Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza?

The fight inside the historical profession heats up.

Mar 6, 2025 / Van Gosse

An interior view of a model condominium at the sales center for the Platinum luxury condominiums in New York City, 2008.

Rumaan Alam’s Haves and Have-Nots Rumaan Alam’s Haves and Have-Nots

With his latest novel, Entitlement, he asks: Can wealth inequality make you lose your mind?

Mar 5, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman

How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education?

How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education? How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education?

A conversation with Eve L. Ewing about the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy and her book Original Sins.

Mar 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Elias

Art Spiegelman, “Self-Portrait With Maus Mask,” 1989.

Art Spiegelman and the Inescapable Shadow of Fascism Art Spiegelman and the Inescapable Shadow of Fascism

The creator of Maus has learned that the past is always present.

Mar 3, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Nation Poetry

Death in Captivity, a Surrender Death in Captivity, a Surrender

Feb 28, 2025 / Poems / Mai Der Vang

A backcountry road is covered in recent snow, February 2, 2024, in the Catskills Mountain region of New York.

February Storms in a Country That Still Works—for Now February Storms in a Country That Still Works—for Now

The reliable knot that pulls together the threads of basic human life in America is beginning to unravel, and there suddenly arises the possibility that the center will not hold.

Feb 26, 2025 / Susan Brind Morrow

Ronald Johnson

Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism

Books & the Arts / February 26, 2025 Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s natu…

Feb 26, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs

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