Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami is the author of four novels, including The Moor's Account, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and The Other Americans, a National Book Award finalist. Her most recent book, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, is a work of nonfiction. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.

Columnist

Dave Zirin

Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is also the coproducer and writer of the new documentary Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a frequent guest on ESPN, MSNBC, and Democracy Now! He also hosts The Nation’s Edge of Sports podcast.

Sports Editor

Ari Berman

Ari Berman is a former senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a Fellow at The Nation Institute. His book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was published in August 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has written extensively about American politics, civil rights, and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in Th...

Lizzy Ratner

Lizzy Ratner is deputy editor for print at The Nation.

Deputy Editor (for print)

Juan Cole

Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three and a half decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. He is also the author of  The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle...

John Palattella

John Palattella is an editor-at-large of The Nation, and was the magazine’s literary editor from 2007 to 2016. He has written for numerous publications, including the The Nation, the London Review of Books, and The American Scholar. He is a former poetry editor of The Nation and the co-editor of Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists who Covered It.

Editor-at-Large

Roane Carey

Roane Carey, former senior editor at The Nation, is the editor of The New Intifada (Verso) and, with Jonathan Shainin, The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (New Press).

Managing Editor

Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard is the environment correspondent of The Nation and the executive director of the global media collaboration Covering Climate Now. His new book is Big Red’s Mercy:  The Shooting of Deborah Cotton and A Story of Race in America.

Richard Kim

Richard Kim is editor in chief of TheCITY.NYC, New York City's nonprofit, nonpartisan, local news organization. He was formerly executive editor of HuffPost, and before that, spent over two decades at The Nation, where he held positions ranging from intern to columnist to executive editor.

Ben Ehrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich’s most recent books include The Way to the Spring, based on his reporting from the West Bank, and Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time, which was awarded an American Book Award in 2021.