Why Does Ta-Nehisi Coates Say Less Than He Knows? Why Does Ta-Nehisi Coates Say Less Than He Knows?
The journalist’s best-selling memoir offers eloquent testimony to the vulnerability of black life, but it surrenders too much to despair.
Nov 15, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy
Don’t Tell the Student Protesters at Yale to ‘Grow Up’ Don’t Tell the Student Protesters at Yale to ‘Grow Up’
They are already plenty grown up. It’s their adult critics who are behaving like children.
Nov 13, 2015 / Bruce Shapiro
Does Larry David Deserve $5,000 for Kinda, Sorta Calling Donald Trump a Racist? Does Larry David Deserve $5,000 for Kinda, Sorta Calling Donald Trump a Racist?
Comedians and activists weigh in on whether David called attention to Trump’s racism or protected SNL from criticism.
Nov 12, 2015 / Katie Halper
Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou? Why Isn’t Yale As Radical as Mizzou?
University of Missouri students pulled all the right levers for structural change. Why hasn’t Yale done the same?
Nov 11, 2015 / StudentNation / Daniel Moattar
Am I the Only Person Who Thinks Larry David Wasn’t Funny on Trump’s ‘SNL’? Am I the Only Person Who Thinks Larry David Wasn’t Funny on Trump’s ‘SNL’?
Shouting “Trump’s a racist!” helped inoculate Trump—and SNL—from seeming racist.
Nov 10, 2015 / Leslie Savan
3 Lessons From University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s Resignation 3 Lessons From University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s Resignation
The administrators created a world in which universities revolve socially, politically, and economically around the exploited labor of football. Now let them reap what they sow.
Nov 9, 2015 / Dave Zirin
Letters From the November 23/30 Issue Letters From the November 23/30 Issue
Bombs without borders… burying inequality… objectively unreasonable… a real bad apple… et tu, MSNBC?…
Nov 5, 2015 / Letters / Our Readers
It’s Shocking How Relevant This 150-Year-Old Denunciation of American Racism Is Today It’s Shocking How Relevant This 150-Year-Old Denunciation of American Racism Is Today
In 1865, a writer in The Nation took aim at the deadly dehumanization of black lives that plagued the United States then as it does today.
Nov 4, 2015 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner
Why ‘Banning the Box’ Is Such a Big Deal for the Formerly Incarcerated Why ‘Banning the Box’ Is Such a Big Deal for the Formerly Incarcerated
One small step by President Obama could improve employment prospects for anyone with a conviction.
Nov 4, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Congressional Democrats Launch a New Strategy to Restore the Voting Rights Act Congressional Democrats Launch a New Strategy to Restore the Voting Rights Act
The 2016 election is a year away, and many states are holding local elections today, but not everyone will be able to vote.
Nov 3, 2015 / Ari Berman