Raina Lipsitz

Raina Lipsitz has written about politics and culture for a variety of publications. She is the author of The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics.

Collier Meyerson

Collier Meyerson is a Knobler Fellow at the Nation Institute, where she focuses on reporting about race and politics, and an investigative fellow at Reveal. She received an Emmy for her work on the MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes and won the National Association of Black Journalists' 2016 award for commentary. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Glamour Magazine, and MSNBC among others. Co...

David Dayen

David Dayen is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. He contributes to The Nation, The Intercept, The American Prospect, Vice, and more.

Patrick Lawrence

Patrick Lawrence is a longtime columnist, essayist, critic, and lecturer. He was a correspondent abroad (writing as Patrick L. Smith) for many years, chiefly for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker, and chiefly in Asia. His most recent books are Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World (Pantheon) and Time No Longer: America...

Alexis Grenell

Alexis Grenell is a columnist for The Nation. She is a political consultant who writes frequently about gender and politics. Her work has appeared in the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, Newsday, the New York Post, El Diario, and City & State.

Columnist

Joshua Holland

Joshua Holland is a contributor to The Nation. He’s also the host of Politics and Reality Radio.

David Hajdu

David Hajdu is the music critic of The Nation. Hajdu is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has written on the arts for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. As an editor and magazine writer, Hajdu has been a finalist ...

Joan Walsh

Joan Walsh is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation, a coproducer of The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show, and the author of What’s the Matter With White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America. Her new book (with Nick Hanauer and Donald Cohen), Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power and Wealth In America, will be published O...

National Affairs Correspondent

Sean McElwee

Sean McElwee is a researcher and writer based in New York City, and co-Founder of Data for Progress. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMcElwee.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the Nation’s Civil Rights correspondent, and President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival, and Professor in the Practice of Public Theology and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. His most recent ...