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The Flame of a Silent Fort The Flame of a Silent Fort

Jun 9, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Ahmad Shamlou

Commemorative print celebrating the passage of the 15th Amendment.

The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make the Constitution Equal for All The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make the Constitution Equal for All

The effort to transform the United States’ founding document into a vehicle for egalitarian politics.

Jun 9, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Steven Hahn

Special Issue: America at 250

Special Issue: America at 250 Special Issue: America at 250

The debate over our national experiment is as old as the country, and as new as this issue of The Nation.

Jun 9, 2026 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols

Bust of Thomas Paine atop his monument at New Rochelle, New York.

Tom Paine’s Fight Tom Paine’s Fight

The pamphleteer’s insistence that America live up to its revolutionary vows still rings true 250 years later.

Jun 9, 2026 / John Nichols

A map showing the US empire in 1898

On “The Nation” and Empire On “The Nation” and Empire

Our magazine has refused to accept what contributor Gore Vidal once described as the “cozy unremitting war” that puts this country in a state of conflict, year after year.

Jun 9, 2026 / Katrina vanden Heuvel for The Nation

Marjane Satrapi in France in 2023.

Marjane Satrapi’s Rebellious Art Marjane Satrapi’s Rebellious Art

The radical legacy of the cartoonist and filmmaker who created Persepolis.

Jun 8, 2026 / Obituary / Jeet Heer

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in “The Drama.”

How Much On-Screen Violence Is Too Much? How Much On-Screen Violence Is Too Much?

I’ve always been a little sensitive about films that depict school shootings. But Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama was an outlier.

Jun 6, 2026 / Vikram Murthi

What’s Behind the Corporate Pillaging of “60 Minutes”

What’s Behind the Corporate Pillaging of “60 Minutes” What’s Behind the Corporate Pillaging of “60 Minutes”

By firing veteran correspondent Scott Pelley, the leaders of CBS News have elevated toadying over truth-telling.

Jun 5, 2026 / Ben Schwartz

The New York Mets celebrating their game 7 win during the 1986 World Series.

The Cruel Optimism of Being a Mets Fan The Cruel Optimism of Being a Mets Fan

A new book by A.M. Gittlitz tells the story of a beloved baseball team.

Jun 4, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Will Harrison

Children looking at a mural of Antonio Gramsci, 1975.

The Ghosts of Antonio Gramsci The Ghosts of Antonio Gramsci

Andy Merrifield’s Roses for Gramsci, a highly personal history of the Italian thinker and his work, examines his influence across generations.

Jun 3, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Aditya Bahl

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