Reckoning With the Election Results
What went wrong—and what we have to do now.
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December 2024 Issue
Cover art by: Brian Stauffer
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Editorial
Some Post-Election Reminders
We’re all still processing Harris’s defeat. Here are some points to keep in mind before the infighting gets too venomous.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Thinkers, activists, and writers share their ideas on how to respond to the coming Trump era.
Subscribers Only Congresswoman Barbara Lee on Why Shirley Chisholm Was Right
The California Democrat explains why, during her 25 years in Congress, it was important for her “to disrupt and dismantle and build something that’s equitable and just and righ...
Subscribers Only A Popular Opinion
The Nation has long opposed the Electoral College.
Good Luck Finding Legal Representation if You Support Palestine
A law firm dumped me as a client because of my support of students’ right to protest Israel’s actions. I’m far from the only one shut out.
Column
Subscribers Only What’s—Still—the Matter With Kansas?
As recent events bear out, when Thomas Frank lamented, “We’ll have to drag the Democrats kicking and screaming to victory" in 2017, if anything he was understating the challenge.
The Democrats Will Keep Losing Until They Solve Their Plutocracy Problem
The party’s habitual deference to big donors makes it impossible to effectively oppose Trumpism.
Subscribers Only Georgia’s Disastrous Medicaid Work Requirements
Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said that 345,000 would enroll in the state’s Medicaid program, which has strict work requirements—so far just 5,118 people have.
Everyone Needs to Disavow Neom
Now that they know about the staggering number of deaths the Saudi megaproject has caused, architects have absolutely no more excuses.
Feature
Subscribers Only Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail
Amid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.
Subscribers Only Who’s Watching the Kids
Republicans are pushing a dangerous solution to the nation’s childcare crisis: deregulation.
Subscribers Only Journalism’s Next Wave
In 2024, writers with StudentNation captured the stories of an emerging generation—and revealed the future of journalism.
Climate Change Is the Real National Security Threat
In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, it’s clear we’re defending against the wrong perils.
Subscribers Only The Nonstop Gay Sex Party on the Mexico City Subway
The city’s metro hosts—and authorities unofficially sanction—a queer institution unlike any other.
Books & the Arts
The Impossible Story of Commumism
How do you tell the history of a global movement in all its hope and contradiction?
Life and Luxury in the World Beyond the Nation-State
In The Hidden Globe, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines what globalization has come to look like for the rich.
Subscribers Only The Long History of the “Elsewhere Museum”
Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented?
The Apprenticeship of Donald Trump
A new film examines Trump's formative years under the tutelage of Roy Cohn.
