Not Just Numbers Not Just Numbers
Gun deaths mount as politicians bloviate.
Jun 22, 2023 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards
“The Nation” Leads the Relaunch of “Bookforum” “The Nation” Leads the Relaunch of “Bookforum”
Resurrecting a leading voice of US literary criticism, the quarterly will remain editorially independent, with the first new issue out August 2023.
Jun 22, 2023 / Press Room
The Federal Government Is “Affirming Everything That Black People Have Been Saying” The Federal Government Is “Affirming Everything That Black People Have Been Saying”
The Department of Justice report slamming the Minneapolis Police Department is also a cause for hope.
Jun 22, 2023 / Ibrahim Hirsi
A Failson Meets a Failed Justice System A Failson Meets a Failed Justice System
The right-wing outrage machine is whirring up over Hunter Biden's plea deal—but the real scandal is the Justice Department's neglect of white-collar crime.
Jun 22, 2023 / Chris Lehmann
Affirmative Action Is in the Supreme Court’s Crosshairs Affirmative Action Is in the Supreme Court’s Crosshairs
And the man who got it there is not, as he likes to claim, an iconoclastic one-person organization.
Jun 22, 2023 / Column / Kali Holloway
A Forum on “Dobbs”: “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat” A Forum on “Dobbs”: “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat”
One year after the overturning of Roe, contributors in the Nation-verse have much to say about its impact.
Jun 22, 2023 / Various Contributors
Just Another RFK Jr. Lie. I Know, Because It’s About Me. Just Another RFK Jr. Lie. I Know, Because It’s About Me.
I edited Kennedy’s error-ridden piece on a vaccine-autism link, which Salon later retracted. We caved to the truth, not Big Pharma.
Jun 22, 2023 / Joan Walsh
Nona Fernandez and the Black Hole of Collective Memory Nona Fernandez and the Black Hole of Collective Memory
Her book-length essay Voyager examines life after Pinochet—and the disjunctures in public remembering the era produced—through an exploration of the stars.
Jun 22, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Amanda Paige Inman
Why Does Ro Khanna Want Modi to Address Congress? Why Does Ro Khanna Want Modi to Address Congress?
Despite his condemnations of Hindu nationalism, Representative Ro Khanna pushed for Modi to speak to a joint session of Congress and has received more than $110,000 from Hindu nati...
Jun 21, 2023 / Deeksha Udupa
It’s Official: The DOJ Stalled the Investigation Into Donald Trump It’s Official: The DOJ Stalled the Investigation Into Donald Trump
Merrick Garland has long claimed he’s been methodically building his investigation into January 6 from the bottom up—but a Washington Post exposé shows otherwise.
Jun 21, 2023 / Elie Mystal