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Hunter Biden at the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 18, 2022.

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

Supporters of affirmative action rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on October 31, 2022.

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

Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 15, 2023.

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking at a podium next to an American flag.

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

The Atacama desert, 2022.

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

Joe Biden and Narendra Modi

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

Former president Donald Trump arrives at a rally, August 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis.

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

We Are Born to Be Happy

We Are Born to Be Happy We Are Born to Be Happy

Street art from Oaxaca, Mexico.

Jun 21, 2023 / OppArt

Cormac McCarthy, 1973.

Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire

He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.

Jun 21, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin

Jimmie Durham in London, 2015.

The Unsettled Life and Art of Jimmie Durham The Unsettled Life and Art of Jimmie Durham

A retrospective in Naples magnifies the mystery of the conceptual artist’s work. 

Jun 21, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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