Trans People’s Rights Are on the Ballot, but Many Won’t Be Able to Vote Trans People’s Rights Are on the Ballot, but Many Won’t Be Able to Vote
Over 850,000 trans Americans are eligible to vote in the midterms. But strict voter ID laws, less mail-in voting, and other barriers will make it more difficult.
Oct 24, 2022 / StudentNation / Theia Chatelle
Barack Obama Is Wrong to Oppose Expanding the Supreme Court Barack Obama Is Wrong to Oppose Expanding the Supreme Court
There is too much at stake—and too little time left—to give in to the former president’s caution on this issue.
Oct 21, 2022 / Mondaire Jones
Cash Is Never Neutral: A Conversation on the Politics of Money Cash Is Never Neutral: A Conversation on the Politics of Money
Stefan Eich talks to The Nation about the role monetary policy plays in crisis, if money can be turned into a more democratic tool, and his new book, The Currency of Politics.
Oct 10, 2022 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
How the Police Became an Occupying Army How the Police Became an Occupying Army
Riotsville, U.S.A. documents the origins and rise of what the activist George Jackson called the “the corporate-military-police complex.”
Oct 5, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Yasmina Price
The Migrants Sent North Don’t Have a Happy Ending Yet The Migrants Sent North Don’t Have a Happy Ending Yet
The fact that asylum-seekers are being welcomed in the cities they’ve been sent to is good news, but they’ve still got immigration cases to win.
Sep 23, 2022 / Gaby Del Valle
Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Realizes the Dream of the Religious Right Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Realizes the Dream of the Religious Right
For evangelicals and conservative Christians, the former president's cult-like rallies have placed their ritualized militancy at the center of American politics.
Sep 23, 2022 / Chris Lehmann
Jana Prikryl’s Poetry of Perpetual Motion Jana Prikryl’s Poetry of Perpetual Motion
In her new collection, Midwood, she travels through the borders of space, time, life, and death.
Sep 12, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Rhian Sasseen
The Left Takes Chicago The Left Takes Chicago
At the 2022 Socialism Conference, a new generation of radical young organizers revivifies the US left.
Sep 12, 2022 / Raina Lipsitz
Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives Rationing of Medical Equipment Is Costing Disabled People Their Lives
With the government refusing to make medicine and medical equipment accessible, sick, and disabled people have to rely on each other for support.
Aug 26, 2022 / First Person / Nolan Trowe
Defund the Police Algorithms Defund the Police Algorithms
Law enforcement is increasingly turning to software to surveil and anticipate crime. But a grassroots movement is emerging to resist algorithmic policing.
Aug 25, 2022 / Michelle Chen