![People sit on an MTA bus as the sun sets along 72nd Street on June 12, 2024, in New York City.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/nyc-bus-getty.jpg)
A Year Without Fares: Lessons From New York’s Free Bus Pilot A Year Without Fares: Lessons From New York’s Free Bus Pilot
Albany must embrace transformational change to bring NYC transit back on track and be ready for the challenges of tomorrow.
The Mpox Outbreak Is a Damning Indictment of the Global Health System The Mpox Outbreak Is a Damning Indictment of the Global Health System
The inequalities and injustices in our medical infrastructure have made the outbreak so much worse than it could have been.
How Wisconsin Democrats Easily Defeated 2 Conservative Constitutional Amendments How Wisconsin Democrats Easily Defeated 2 Conservative Constitutional Amendments
The August partisan primary marked the second time since 1996 that voters in the state rejected a constitutional amendment.
Liz Cheney Finally Proved Me Right Liz Cheney Finally Proved Me Right
Fifteen years ago, she told me we had no common ground. I disagreed. This week she endorsed Kamala Harris, and she has my gratitude.
Latest
![Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) listens as the Senate Finance Committee votes on February 4, 2025, to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next secretary of health and human services.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197620383.jpg)
Cassidy Caves to MAGA Threats Cassidy Caves to MAGA Threats
Feb 4, 2025 / Joan Walsh
![Grassroots action: Our Revolution at the Democratic National Committee leadership election on Saturday.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/our-revolution-protest.jpg)
Defeating the Democratic Party Elites Is Just the First Step Defeating the Democratic Party Elites Is Just the First Step
Feb 4, 2025 / Joseph Geevarghese
Parenting In the Age of Trump Parenting In the Age of Trump
Feb 4, 2025 / Elie Mystal
The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine
Feb 4, 2025 / Dave Zirin
M23, the DRC, and Rwanda M23, the DRC, and Rwanda
Feb 4, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison
What the Neocons Do—and Don’t—Explain About Trump What the Neocons Do—and Don’t—Explain About Trump
Feb 4, 2025 / David Klion
Nation Voices
“swipe left below to view more authors”Swipe →Popular
“swipe left below to view more authors”Swipe →-
Parenting In the Age of Trump Parenting In the Age of Trump
-
Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup? Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup?
-
Think There’s Nothing You Can Do to Stop ICE? Think Again. Think There’s Nothing You Can Do to Stop ICE? Think Again.
-
The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai
From the Archive
![This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How We Helped Start the ‘Melville Revival’ of the 1920s](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/hermanmelville_cc_img.jpg)
January 4, 2014: This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How We Helped Start the ‘Melville Revival’ of the 1920s This Week in ‘Nation’ History: How We Helped Start the ‘Melville Revival’ of the 1920s
An article in our pages in 1919 helped rescue the long-deceased scribe from obscurity and secured him a prominent place in the American canon.
2024 Election
![The Russia Today logo is seen on a computer screen.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-872544312.jpg)
The Right-Wing Influencers Cashing Checks From Russia The Right-Wing Influencers Cashing Checks From Russia
A DOJ indictment charges MAGA-loyal media figures with delivering talking points furnished by Russian state media.
![A commuter at a ticket kiosk at New Jersey Transit train station at Penn Station in New York.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NJ-Transit-And-Amtrak-Leave-NYC-Commuters-With-90-Minute-Delays.jpg)
Transportation Should Be a Bigger Issue in the 2024 Election Transportation Should Be a Bigger Issue in the 2024 Election
As November approaches, the safety, accessibility, and equity of active transit users has, so far, been a footnote at best.
![Meet the MAGA Zealots Who Are Gunning to Become Their State’s Top Prosecutors](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ROBINSON-Mystal-RAGA-ftr.jpg)
Meet the MAGA Zealots Who Are Gunning to Become Their State’s Top Prosecutors Meet the MAGA Zealots Who Are Gunning to Become Their State’s Top Prosecutors
The Republican Attorney Generals Association is working overtime to install authoritarian AGs across the country.
World
![A mother holds her son as he receives his daily injection while being treated for mpox at the Kavumu health center in Kabare territory, South Kivu region, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2169643545.jpg)
The Mpox Outbreak Is a Damning Indictment of the Global Health System The Mpox Outbreak Is a Damning Indictment of the Global Health System
The inequalities and injustices in our medical infrastructure have made the outbreak so much worse than it could have been.
![Riot police hold back anti-immigrant protesters near a burning police vehicle in Southport, England.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2164489011.jpg)
The Recent Riots in the UK Should Be a Warning to Kamala Harris The Recent Riots in the UK Should Be a Warning to Kamala Harris
Like the Tories, the new Labour government wants to blame immigration for Britain’s current troubles, but these have less to do with immigration than with deprivation.
![Locals carry out search and rescue efforts after an Israeli attack on the Ridwan family home in Rafah, Gaza, on April 20, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2147936978.jpg)
“I Couldn’t Ask if She Was Still Alive”: A Girl, Her Mother, and a Bloody Night in Gaza “I Couldn’t Ask if She Was Still Alive”: A Girl, Her Mother, and a Bloody Night in Gaza
“I felt something warm on my hand. I couldn’t see what it was in the darkness. Then I realized it was blood.”
Books & the Arts
![“Summer Interior” by Edward Hopper, 1909. Located at the Whitney Museum of American Art.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-544173004.jpeg)
Vigdis Hjorth and the Novel of Ugly Love Vigdis Hjorth and the Novel of Ugly Love
In If Only, the Norwegian novelist distills a story of romance into all its private discomfort and claustrophobia. Its intense ambivalence in regards to love feels truer to life. …
![The Elion-Hitchings Building in 2020 before its demolition.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Elionhitchingsbuilding2020_1.jpeg)
The Dubious Return of the Brutalists The Dubious Return of the Brutalists
Why the stark 20th-century architectural style is back in vogue.
![The Art of Reading Like a Translator](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/translation-book-light-art-1440x907-1.jpg)
The Art of Reading Like a Translator The Art of Reading Like a Translator
In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of the translator and of the writer.
Politics
![Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., announcing his retirement from the court.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-50365167.jpg)
The Powell Memo Helped Create Project 2025 The Powell Memo Helped Create Project 2025
A new investigative podcast shows the toxic legacy of the founding father of modern American plutocracy.
![JD Vance smiles looking at Melania and Eric Trump.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/VanceUshaGetty.jpg)
With Kamala Harris and Usha Vance, Indian Americans Are Enjoying a Moment in the Spotlight With Kamala Harris and Usha Vance, Indian Americans Are Enjoying a Moment in the Spotlight
Yet as both JD Vance and Kamala Harris struggle to introduce their South Asian families to the wider culture, America’s “Passage to India” remains beset by racism and backlash.
![Jack Burkman, the lobbyist who has put a sizable donation to solve the murder of Seth Rich, shakes hands with a resident after a short discussion of the case on January 10, 2017, in Washington, DC.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Jack-Burkman-getty.jpg)
The Never-Ending Grift of DC Influence Peddling The Never-Ending Grift of DC Influence Peddling
Right-wing fraudsters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman got caught lying about their lobbying firm, but K Street has long been a breeding ground for bottom-feeding grifters.
Features
“swipe left below to view more features”Swipe →Latest Podcasts
The Nation produces various podcasts, including American Prestige, Tech Won’t Save Us, Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal, Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener, Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer, and Edge of Sports with Dave Zirin, and our new election podcast, See How They Run.
SubscribeM23, the DRC, and Rwanda M23, the DRC, and Rwanda
Podcast / American Prestige
Robert Lipsyte On How YA Novels Can Save The World Robert Lipsyte On How YA Novels Can Save The World
Podcast / Edge of Sports
Project 2025 For Real Project 2025 For Real
Podcast / The Time of Monsters