David Berman’s Parting Gift David Berman’s Parting Gift
One of rock’s great lyricists died earlier this week. His last album, Purple Mountains, is a fitting bookend to his rich and wrenching career.
Aug 9, 2019 / Nathan Goldman
The Myth of Resistance Inside the Trump Administration The Myth of Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
The adults in the room are complicit in a dangerous presidency.
Aug 9, 2019 / Jeet Heer
Mexico’s Crackdown Is Making the Migrant Crisis Worse Mexico’s Crackdown Is Making the Migrant Crisis Worse
Under pressure from the US to ramp up deterrence, security forces have been implicated in the killing of at least two migrants this year.
Aug 9, 2019 / John Washington
Brianna Wu Is Used to Fighting Bullies Brianna Wu Is Used to Fighting Bullies
The Gamergate veteran tells The Nation why she’s challenging a Democratic incumbent in the Massachusetts congressional primary.
Aug 9, 2019 / Q&A / John Nichols
USA Homegrown Terrorism USA Homegrown Terrorism
No other country makes buying assault weapons so easy.
Aug 9, 2019 / OppArt / Edel Rodriguez
Toni Morrison’s Cosmos Toni Morrison’s Cosmos
Like a new planet, she shifted the flow of gravity in American culture.
Aug 8, 2019 / Jesse McCarthy
Why Do We Hate Immigrants? Why Do We Hate Immigrants?
Whether we are indigenous to this land, whether we came in the hull of a slave ship or landed at Ellis Island, our government’s brutal response to the migrant crisis is an affront ...
Aug 8, 2019 / Kevin Powell
The Democratic Debates Don’t Need to Be This Awful The Democratic Debates Don’t Need to Be This Awful
Progressive Democrats can and should demand deeper and sharper lines of questioning and more diverse moderators.
Aug 8, 2019 / John Nichols
Puzzle No. 3506 Puzzle No. 3506
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Nobel-winning author is yellowish, and sadly blue on the inside (4,6) 6 50 percent failure dogs onboard computer (…
Aug 8, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Jia Tolentino On Wringing Joy Out of Our Nightmare World Jia Tolentino On Wringing Joy Out of Our Nightmare World
The New Yorker staff writer talks to us about all the cultural obsessions and crises she chronicles in her debut nonfiction collection Trick Mirror.
Aug 8, 2019 / Quinn Moreland