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 / Back Page / Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian T. Warren
What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation
Its fall once represented the enduring spirit of American freedom. A new documentary shows how that myth is being undone.
Oct 22, 2020 / Sophia Steinert-Evoy
The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity
Why former telethon participants are protesting the return of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s most famous fundraising effort.
Oct 22, 2020 / Sara Luterman
Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7
The centrist filmmaker captures the drama of the 1960s, but tries too hard to make radicals palatable to contemporary liberals.
Oct 21, 2020 / Jeet Heer
A Dilemma of Intimacy A Dilemma of Intimacy
An Asian American writer grapples with interracial love in a time of disaster.
Oct 21, 2020 / Anne Anlin Cheng
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
Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums
After untold exploitation and erasure, Native artwork is being undermined by fraud.
Oct 20, 2020 / Chris O’Connell, Savannah Maher, and The Texas Observer
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