How Students Are Fighting for Birth Control Access How Students Are Fighting for Birth Control Access
As reproductive rights shrink nationwide, university students are building grassroots networks to get contraception to their peers.
May 15, 2026 / StudentNation / Nikole Rajgor
How Netflix Cashes In on the Comedy Culture Wars How Netflix Cashes In on the Comedy Culture Wars
The streamer managed to make a celebrity roast for the innocuous comedian Kevin Hart into an ideological free-fire zone—another sign of the Trumpification of pop culture.
May 15, 2026 / Ben Schwartz
Is Antitrust Enough? Is Antitrust Enough?
Tim Wu’s Age of Extraction lays out an antitrust strategy for fighting platform capitalism. But does the challenge posed by Big Tech require a new playbook?
May 14, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Michael Eby
The Billionaires’ Bathos Club The Billionaires’ Bathos Club
American plutocrats can’t stop whining about how extremely modest tax increases are killing their initiative.
May 12, 2026 / Elizabeth Spiers
Care Workers Are Saying No to 24-Hour Workdays Care Workers Are Saying No to 24-Hour Workdays
Fed up with the inhumane practice, they took their message to City Hall on May Day. Will Zohran Mamdani listen?
May 11, 2026 / Matthew Vickers
“Nobody Heard Me at Amazon” “Nobody Heard Me at Amazon”
Pregnant workers at the mega-corporation say they endure unsafe conditions and are punished when they asked for accommodations.
May 11, 2026 / Feature / Bryce Covert
Illinois Is Helping People Awaiting Trial Get Back to Court and Stay Out of Jail Illinois Is Helping People Awaiting Trial Get Back to Court and Stay Out of Jail
The state has a successful pilot in four counties to offer free services to those on pretrial release. But federal budget cuts put the program at risk.
May 8, 2026 / Bryce Covert
Spain’s Left Has a New Frontier: Democracy at Work Spain’s Left Has a New Frontier: Democracy at Work
Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz speaks about the next frontier of labor rights and how her government is making the case for workplace democracy.
May 5, 2026 / Q&A / The Nation
Did You Know There’s an Independent Bookstore Revival Underway? Did You Know There’s an Independent Bookstore Revival Underway?
Americans fight back against big tech.
May 5, 2026 / Katrina vanden Heuvel