Nation Voices

  • Bryce Covert

    Bryce Covert is a contributing writer at The Nation and was a 2023 Reporter in Residence at Omidyar Network. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Wired, the New Republic, and others. She won a 2016 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus and the John Swett Merit Certificate fro...

  • Jane McAlevey

    Jane McAlevey has been a UAW member for a decade, including participating in the largest academic strike—against the UC system in 2022 (she’s also a member of the UAWD, a group within the UAW working to transform from corrupt to democratic). She’s been a columnist for The Nation and was the magazine’s strikes correspondent from 2019 to 2023. Her books include A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organ...
    Columnist

  • Tom Tomorrow

    Tom Tomorrow’s weekly cartoon, This Modern World, appears online at The Nation, Daily Kos, and The Nib, and in approximately 80 papers across the country. His cartoons have also been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, U.S. News & World Report, Esquire, The Economist, and numerous other publications. He is a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist and the 2013 Herblock Prize winner. He ...

  • Leslie Savan

    Leslie Savan writes about media and politics for The Nation. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for her Village Voice column about advertising, Savan is the author of Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and, Like…Whatever and The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture. She has been widely published, including in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker,...

  • Peter Rothberg

    Peter Rothberg is the Nation’s associate publisher for special projects. He oversees StudentNation content as well as the magazine’s activism program, Take Action Now. His previous positions with The Nation include editor of TheNation.com, publicity director, special projects director, and intern. Rothberg, a former speechwriter for civil rights leader Julian Bond, is the editor of Lived Histor...
    Associate Publisher, Special Projects

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  • Mike Konczal

    Mike Konczal is a contributor to The Nation and a director at the Roosevelt Institute, where he focuses on inequality, unemployment, and new economic ideas. He is author of Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand (The New Press).

  • Sarah Jaffe

    Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at Type Media Center and the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt and Work Won’t Love You Back.

  • Emily Douglas

    Emily Douglas is a senior editor at The Nation. She tweets at @EmilySDouglas.
    Senior Editor

  • Kai Wright

    Kai Wright is editor and host of WNYC’s narrative unit, and a columnist for The Nation. His reporting and writing is focused on racial justice, economic inequity, healthcare, and sexuality. Formerly features editor of The Nation, he was the host of the podcast “The United States of Anxiety,” a partnership of The Nation and WNYC Studios. The podcast explored America’s debate over its national id...
    Columnist

  • Barry Schwabsky

    Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation. He also writes regularly for such publications as New Left Review and Artforum (where is co-editor of international reviews). He has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, and Goldsmiths College (University of London), among others. His recent books include two collections of poetry,...
    Art Critic