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The Virus, the Press, and the Comfortable Class

The Virus, the Press, and the Comfortable Class The Virus, the Press, and the Comfortable Class

Liberal and conservative elites aren’t grappling with the pandemic’s toll on working-class people—and the impossible choices they’re forced to make.

May 15, 2020 / Michael Massing

Artist creating a mural of Ahmaud Arbery

Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Understood White Freedom Perfectly Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Understood White Freedom Perfectly

They saw themselves as entitled to police the movements, motivations, and ultimately, the right to exist of a black stranger.

May 15, 2020 / Column / Kali Holloway

LA Tenant Protest

Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants

The city’s emergency measures will only delay a huge wave of evictions until later this year.

May 14, 2020 / Jacob Woocher

Conversations With ‘The Nation’: Ai-jen Poo

Conversations With ‘The Nation’: Ai-jen Poo Conversations With ‘The Nation’: Ai-jen Poo

Join the labor activist in discussion with Nation editorial director/publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel for our weekly virtual series.

May 14, 2020 / The Nation

The Supreme Court Has Given Its Blessing to Public Corruption

The Supreme Court Has Given Its Blessing to Public Corruption The Supreme Court Has Given Its Blessing to Public Corruption

With its Bridgegate decision, the Supreme Court put another nail in the coffin of our corruption laws.

May 14, 2020 / Elie Mystal

A women in a car with a poster reading

There Is Only One Way to Prevent Mass Deaths in Prisons: Let Them Out There Is Only One Way to Prevent Mass Deaths in Prisons: Let Them Out

A lawsuit about conditions at Danbury prison shows why it is impossible to keep the incarcerated safe.

May 14, 2020 / Daniel Fernandez

PPE for All Essential Workers, NOW!

PPE for All Essential Workers, NOW! PPE for All Essential Workers, NOW!

This image is a free download and stickers are available through the artist’s website.

May 14, 2020 / OppArt / Tamara Wyndham

‘God Friended Me’ Was the Strangest Show on TV

‘God Friended Me’ Was the Strangest Show on TV ‘God Friended Me’ Was the Strangest Show on TV

Each episode of the CBS comedy-drama functions as a morality play for a peculiar worldview.

May 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz

Kayleigh McEnany pointing at a person with their hand raised

Trump’s New Press Secretary Fits Right In Trump’s New Press Secretary Fits Right In

Everywhere you look, the president has appointed people who undermine their job’s essential reason for being.

May 14, 2020 / Column / Eric Alterman

A car drives past city hall, carrying signs that read

Undocumented Workers in Coronavirus Crisis Undocumented Workers in Coronavirus Crisis

“Immigrant workers give life, give a pulse, to our economy. We need to be taken into account.”

May 14, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

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