Journalists and Journalism

World Press, Pope Leo, Sweeney Todd

World Press, Pope Leo, Sweeney Todd World Press, Pope Leo, Sweeney Todd

American pie.

May 10, 2025 / Steve Brodner

A worker assembles components of modular housing in the Capsys factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York in 2016, shortly before it was repurposed as the Nehemiah Spring Creek housing development.

When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance

Neither Klein and Thompson nor many of their critics on the left offer a robust strategy for actually building affordable homes. Here’s one that has been proven to work.

May 7, 2025 / Mike Gecan

The Last (Michael) Waltz

The Last (Michael) Waltz The Last (Michael) Waltz

We should welcome the humiliation of Trump’s hawkish, neocon national security adviser.

May 2, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Presidential timber? United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain speaks to guests at an election-night watch party.

Shawn Fain for President! Shawn Fain for President!

Centrist Democrats hate the union leader because he puts the working class first.

Apr 18, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define

Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define

Tariffs and trade are not side issues, but a central front in the battle against monopoly power—and for self-government.

Apr 17, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout

We Must Save Public Media to Change It

We Must Save Public Media to Change It We Must Save Public Media to Change It

We need public media more than ever—it’s too precious to let Trump defund it. But to live up to its democratic promise, we must support public media to serve our needs.

Apr 15, 2025 / Victor Pickard

People walk among the rubble of the residential buildings targeted in Israel's attack in Gaza, Palestinian territories on April 9, 2025.

Israel’s Genocide Has Resumed—and So Have the Media’s Failures Israel’s Genocide Has Resumed—and So Have the Media’s Failures

Israel has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months.

Apr 14, 2025 / Assal Rad

The Rebellions of Murray Kempton

The Rebellions of Murray Kempton The Rebellions of Murray Kempton

One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.

Apr 8, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Katrina vanden Heuvel Resumes Editorship of “The Nation”

Katrina vanden Heuvel Resumes Editorship of “The Nation” Katrina vanden Heuvel Resumes Editorship of “The Nation”

D.D. Guttenplan, Nation editor from 2019 to 2025, returns to his reporting roots as special correspondent and host of a new Nation podcast.

Apr 3, 2025 / Press Room

Sophomore Kavya Racheetim looks through the first edition of The Retrograde.

Texas Student Journalists Are Being Censored, but That Won’t Stop the Presses Texas Student Journalists Are Being Censored, but That Won’t Stop the Presses

On University of Texas campuses, students have found other ways of newsmaking that free their publications from editorial control by their schools and state.

Apr 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Aaron Boehmer

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