Culture

Janiform on display at the Louvre

Emily LaBarge’s Life Stories Emily LaBarge’s Life Stories

In “Dog Days,” LaBarge blurs the lines between memoir and criticism.

Jul 20, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Poole

Richard Lingeman, longtime executive editor of The Nation, at the magazine’s copy office sometime in the 1990s.

Paying Tribute to Richard Lingeman—Longtime Executive Editor and a Quiet Force at “The Nation” for More Than Three Decades Paying Tribute to Richard Lingeman—Longtime Executive Editor and a Quiet Force at “The Nation” for More Than Three Decades

A man of few spoken words, on the page he was a marvel.

Jul 17, 2026 / Obituary / Nation Contributors

Robin Dembroff speaking at the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

What We Get Wrong About Patriarchy What We Get Wrong About Patriarchy

A conversation with philosopher Robin Dembroff about their new book, Real Men on Top, identity categories, and the possibility of undoing patriarchy.

Jul 13, 2026 / StudentNation / Andrés Muedano

Walls of Solidarity

Walls of Solidarity Walls of Solidarity

Street art in Barcelona expressing solidarity with Palestine, June 2026.

Jul 10, 2026 / OppArt / Bob Bingenheimer

Wallace Shawn Reflects on His Art in the Age of Antagonism

Wallace Shawn Reflects on His Art in the Age of Antagonism Wallace Shawn Reflects on His Art in the Age of Antagonism

“Now our country is run by people who really believe in crushing the poor and killing them.”

Jul 9, 2026 / Q&A / Elaine Schiff

A still from “Disclosure Day.”

Steven Spielberg’s Aliens Steven Spielberg’s Aliens

“Disclosure Day” has plenty of UFOs and extraterrestrial species but very little of the human insights found in the filmmaker’s past work.

Jul 1, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse

Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in the mid-1920s.

What Makes American Architecture American? What Makes American Architecture American?

It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big.

Jun 30, 2026 / Feature / Kate Wagner

The labor-activist group Union Now was founded with support from Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.

How to Win the Next 250 Years for the Working Class How to Win the Next 250 Years for the Working Class

It begins with building back a strong union movement
rooted in deep solidarity.

Jun 30, 2026 / Feature / Sara Nelson

Nation Poetry

Agate Head Agate Head

Patricia Lockwood

Jun 30, 2026 / Poems

The founding father included a recipe for abortions in The American Instructor, his 1748 reprint of a popular British textbook.

Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition

More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.

Jun 29, 2026 / Feature / Regina Mahone

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