Why Bernie Sanders Went to Coachella Why Bernie Sanders Went to Coachella
The senator is building a movement, and he knows young voters are essential to making it work.
Apr 16, 2025 / John Nichols
The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering
The Ivy League is silently complicit in Trump’s war on international students.
Apr 14, 2025 / Jeet Heer
The Democrats’ Lost Millions The Democrats’ Lost Millions
The people who really decided the 2024 election are the ones who didn’t vote at all—and they could hold the key to a Democratic comeback.
Apr 10, 2025 / Feature / Kali Holloway
The Epidemic of Capitulation Suggests the Liberal Order Has Been Rotting From Within The Epidemic of Capitulation Suggests the Liberal Order Has Been Rotting From Within
What old-school civics taught us about checks and balances isn’t working. The absence of a will to fight, to defend the institutions of liberal democracy, is breathtaking.
Apr 8, 2025 / Jodi Dean for The Nation
Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration
The ongoing internal witch hunt led by the far-right provocateur is a sign of a GOP crack-up.
Apr 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer
What’s Kat Abughazaleh’s Deal? What’s Kat Abughazaleh’s Deal?
She’s a 26-year-old social media star challenging a progressive stalwart in a congressional district she doesn’t live in yet. We asked her why.
Apr 7, 2025 / Elsie Carson-Holt
A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy A Cowardly Congress Is Letting Trump Crash the Economy
The president’s tariff war is also a constitutional crisis.
Apr 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump
The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism.
Apr 3, 2025 / Ellen Schrecker
Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again
The administration’s targeting of international students is a return to a disgraced tradition of xenophobic anti-intellectualism.
Mar 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer