The Left Must Adapt or Die

This new era of climatic instability desperately demands a strategy based on the facts of today, not some imagined future.

Samuel Miller McDonald for The Nation

The Anti-Trans Crusade Comes to New Jersey

I returned to my New Jersey middle school to watch the school board support a dangerous anti-trans policy.

Sarah Baum

“Bidenomics” vs. “Reaganomics”

What will it take for Biden’s economic agenda to transform the political landscape the way to Reagan’s did?

Mike Konczal

We’ve Entered a New Era of Tiered Constitutional Rights

In a string of cases, the US Supreme Court’s conservative justices have elevated rights of religious liberty, free speech, and guns over other rights.

Katherine Franke

Maternal Mortality Is Rising, and Pro-Lifers Don’t Care

Abortion opponents expect all pregnancies to be carried to term. But they won't lift a finger to help mothers.

Katha Pollitt

The Pence Campaign Struggles

Calvin Trillin

The Supreme Court Has Kicked the Door Wide Open to Jim Crow–Style Bigotry

The court's conservatives used a case literally based on a homophobe’s fantasies to blow a huge hole in our antidiscrimination laws and revive the spirit of Plessy v. Ferguson....