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Steven Thrasher on “The Viral Underclass”
The Nation spoke with Thrasher about who makes up the viral underclass—the subject of his new book—and what we should do to confront the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Charlotte Rosen
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August 5, 2022
The Democrats’ Working-Class Deficit
Why is the party of working people in danger of becoming the party of upscale voters? Don’t blame the left.
Katrina vanden Heuvel and The Nation
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August 4, 2022
When Did Cars Become Weapons of the Right?
The politicization of big-box personal vehicles is now almost complete.
Stan Cox
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July 29, 2022
David Moberg, 1943–2022
For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.
Peter Dreier
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July 19, 2022
Voting Isn’t Enough. Our Democracy Requires Radical Reform.
Our country is in the midst of a legitimacy crisis, with the Supreme Court at the heart of it. Here’s how we can fix it.
Representative Ilhan Omar
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July 15, 2022
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July 13, 2022
This Doesn’t Have to Hurt: An Argument Against BDSM Economics
Inflicting pain on workers to fix inflation isn’t just unfair. It’s stupid, ineffective, and completely unnecessary.
Zack Exley and Robert Hockett
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July 12, 2022
Buffalo Community Activists Show How to Fight Gerrymandering
From the folks who backed India Walton, a community-led approach to redistricting.
Geoff Kelly
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July 11, 2022
The Rise of Bad Art and the Decline of Political Candor
Though the language of cliché has switched from the middle-class respectability of the 1950s to our current obsessions with “inclusion” and concern for the marginalized, the practice of washing our clean linen in public endures in our culture.
David Bromwich
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July 8, 2022