Economy

a Fox news anchor interviews a gym owner with a crowd behind him

A Fox News Anchor Egged On a Clash With Police. It Didn’t Work. A Fox News Anchor Egged On a Clash With Police. It Didn’t Work.

New Jersey gym owners defied the state’s coronavirus lockdown to reopen Monday. Protesters gathered. Police let it happen. Fox blew the real story.

May 18, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Sunrise Movement Pelosi Office

How Do You Organize Students Without a Campus? How Do You Organize Students Without a Campus?

Student climate activists across the country are quickly learning how to organize in an atomized world—because even after the pandemic, they’re worried about their future.

May 18, 2020 / StudentNation / Jacob Wallace

Puerto Rico’s Sex Workers Are Struggling to Survive

Puerto Rico’s Sex Workers Are Struggling to Survive Puerto Rico’s Sex Workers Are Struggling to Survive

The challenge of making ends meet was difficult before Covid-19. Now it’s even worse.

May 18, 2020 / Photo Essay / Gabriella N. Báez, The Nation, and Magnum Foundation

Pelosi Sends a Message

Pelosi Sends a Message Pelosi Sends a Message

The House passed the HEROES Act, which is a good start, but our new normal demands a bold progressive agenda.

May 15, 2020 / Robert L. Borosage

Baseball’s Plan to Reopen Is All Risk for the Players

Baseball’s Plan to Reopen Is All Risk for the Players Baseball’s Plan to Reopen Is All Risk for the Players

The media and the owners are pressuring the players to take a lousy deal and return to the field during a pandemic. 

May 15, 2020 / Dave Zirin

Biden in red Corvette

Would You Buy a Used Progressive Agenda From This Man? Would You Buy a Used Progressive Agenda From This Man?

Progressive voters have to balance hope with skepticism as they are wooed by the former vice president.

May 15, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Artist creating a mural of Ahmaud Arbery

Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Understood White Freedom Perfectly Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Understood White Freedom Perfectly

They saw themselves as entitled to police the movements, motivations, and ultimately, the right to exist of a black stranger.

May 15, 2020 / Column / Kali Holloway

LA Tenant Protest

Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants

The city’s emergency measures will only delay a huge wave of evictions until later this year.

May 14, 2020 / Jacob Woocher

Conversations With ‘The Nation’: Ai-jen Poo

Conversations With ‘The Nation’: Ai-jen Poo Conversations With ‘The Nation’: Ai-jen Poo

Join the labor activist in discussion with Nation editorial director/publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel for our weekly virtual series.

May 14, 2020 / The Nation

A women in a car with a poster reading

There Is Only One Way to Prevent Mass Deaths in Prisons: Let Them Out There Is Only One Way to Prevent Mass Deaths in Prisons: Let Them Out

A lawsuit about conditions at Danbury prison shows why it is impossible to keep the incarcerated safe.

May 14, 2020 / Daniel Fernandez

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