![Who let the cats out? Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/vance2.jpg)
J.D. Vance’s Hatred of Cat Ladies Is Weirder and More Dangerous Than You Think J.D. Vance’s Hatred of Cat Ladies Is Weirder and More Dangerous Than You Think
Patriarchy, plutocracy, and ethnonationalism fuel the vice-presidential candidate’s bizarre slur.
Jul 26, 2024 / Jeet Heer
![Biden Steps Down, Kamala Harris Steps Up](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1440_FEAT-15.jpg)
Biden Steps Down, Kamala Harris Steps Up Biden Steps Down, Kamala Harris Steps Up
Democrats get energized!
Jul 24, 2024 / OppArt / Colleen Quinn
![A student looking for a book in a school library.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/High-School-Library.jpg)
At My High School, the Library Is for Everything but Books At My High School, the Library Is for Everything but Books
The administration has rebranded our library as a communal space for doing almost everything except reading.
Jul 24, 2024 / StudentNation / Jeannine Chiang
![Workers digging a hole to install a cable](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Handup-not-handown-AP.jpg)
Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout” Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout”
Working- and middle-class Americans take pride in their work. If Democrats want to win their votes, they need to acknowledge and appeal to that pride, not dismiss or patronize it....
Jul 23, 2024 / Column / Erica Etelson
![The torch has been passed: Vice President Kamala Harris with President Biden at the White House in May.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/kamala-harris.jpg)
By Withdrawing in Favor of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden Proves That Only the GOP Is a Personality Cult By Withdrawing in Favor of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden Proves That Only the GOP Is a Personality Cult
Democrats acted as a proper political party, while Republicans remain in thrall to a dangerous authoritarian.
Jul 22, 2024 / Jeet Heer
![Big Brother, 25](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1440_FEAT-11.jpg)
Big Brother, 25 Big Brother, 25
Swas Ticker, Degeneration X.
Jul 19, 2024 / OppArt / Marc Murphy and Gary Taxali
![President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) walk across the South Lawn after returning to the White House on board the Marine One presidential helicopter on April 22, 2024, in Washington, DC.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/bidensanders-2.jpg)
Why Are Bernie Sanders and the Squad Propping Up Joe Biden? Why Are Bernie Sanders and the Squad Propping Up Joe Biden?
A wounded Biden is running on a platform that progressives have long dreamed about.
Jul 18, 2024 / Jeet Heer
![Bernie Sanders (I-VT) questions witnesses during a hearing about working hours in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol H](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2083892403.jpg)
Bernie Sanders’s 60-Year Fight Bernie Sanders’s 60-Year Fight
The independent senator from Vermont spoke to The Nation’s president about why he still believes political revolution can change the United States for the better.
Jul 18, 2024 / Q&A / Bhaskar Sunkara
![Trump leans toward J.D. Vance to shake his hand, onstage at the RNC.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trump-vance-gt-img.jpg)
The He-Man, Woman-Hater’s GOP Presidential Ticket The He-Man, Woman-Hater’s GOP Presidential Ticket
By picking the banal natalist Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, Donald Trump seems to be aiming for an even smaller share of the women’s vote than he earns on his own.
Jul 17, 2024 / Joan Walsh