![Elon Musk (L) shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump backstage during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds on October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/musktrump-1.jpg)
Donald Trump’s Billionaire Boys Club Donald Trump’s Billionaire Boys Club
Even some actual billionaires are happy to betray democracy for Trump’s favors—and fear and greed help keep the rest in line.
Oct 28, 2024 / Jeet Heer
![Former first lady Michelle Obama at a podium, speaking and holding up her hand in a gesture.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/michelle-obama-michigan-gt-img.jpg)
Michelle Obama Is Finally Ready to “Go Low” Against Donald Trump Michelle Obama Is Finally Ready to “Go Low” Against Donald Trump
The former first lady’s incandescent speech on Saturday night in Michigan centered women’s bodies and excoriated the man who gropes but won’t protect them.
Oct 28, 2024 / Joan Walsh
![A man carries an injured child, fleeing down a road in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gaza-child-1440x907px.jpg)
We Are Failing Children Around the World With Our War-Making We Are Failing Children Around the World With Our War-Making
What today’s conflicts are doing to the children trapped by them.
Oct 28, 2024 / Nick Turse
![Screenshot of NBC News segment on the many, many, many opinion polls currently out there.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/FotoJet-64.jpg)
Enough Is Enough: No More Polls! Enough Is Enough: No More Polls!
They distort our democracy, have little value, and make us all insane. We should do what other countries do, and ban them this close to an election.
Oct 28, 2024 / Chris Lehmann
![Signs lie in the grass during a rally celebrating National School Choice Week.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/School-Choice-2024-Election.jpg)
These 3 States Could Use Millions in Public School Funding for Private Schools These 3 States Could Use Millions in Public School Funding for Private Schools
In Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska, referendums on “school choice” are on the ballot in the 2024 election.
Oct 28, 2024 / StudentNation / Owen Dahlkamp
![A black-and-white photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on TV, speaking at a microphone.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/martin-luther-king-riverside-church-gt-img.jpg)
Who Is the Best Candidate to Support Our Democracy and Constitutional Right to Protest? Who Is the Best Candidate to Support Our Democracy and Constitutional Right to Protest?
If Kamala Harris is elected, we can continue to pressure her to end the war on Gaza. The other option for president, Donald Trump, is a threat to our right to protest.
Oct 28, 2024 / Rev. Dr. Bernice King
![LAPD officers on the UCLA Campus in May of this year.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Robbins-Campus_Speech-getty.jpg)
The Politics of Speech on the American Campus The Politics of Speech on the American Campus
Freedom of speech on campuses has long been under attack, but now more than ever.
Oct 28, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
![What’s Really Happening in Springfield, Ohio](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SEJ2024013G3827.jpg)
What’s Really Happening in Springfield, Ohio What’s Really Happening in Springfield, Ohio
After Trump and Vance spread unfounded claims about Haitian migrants in the small town, this photographer went to see who and what are really there.
Oct 27, 2024 / Photo Essay / Jerome Sessini
![A hazmat worker outside the old Washington Post building in 2001.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WaPoCrop.jpg)
The Washington Post’s Craven Capitulation to the Billionaire Class The Washington Post’s Craven Capitulation to the Billionaire Class
What the newspaper’s editorial-page editor really meant was, “My corporate paymasters want to wallow in Donald Trump’s tax cuts.”
Oct 25, 2024 / Chris Lehmann