Reckoning With the Election Results
What went wrong—and what we have to do now.
Print Magazine
We’re all still processing Harris’s defeat. Here are some points to keep in mind before the infighting gets too venomous.
Thinkers, activists, and writers share their ideas on how to respond to the coming Trump era.
The California Democrat explains why, during her 25 years in Congress, it was important for her “to disrupt and dismantle and build something that’s equitable and just and right.” John Nichols
As far back as the 1870s, The Nation opposed the existence of the Electoral College as "so grotesque as to be almost ludicrous.”
A law firm dumped me as a client because of my support of students’ right to protest Israel’s actions. I’m far from the only one shut out.
As recent events bear out, when Thomas Frank lamented, “We’ll have to drag the Democrats kicking and screaming to victory" in 2017, if anything he was understating the challenge.
The party’s habitual deference to big donors makes it impossible to effectively oppose Trumpism.
Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said that 345,000 people would enroll in the state’s Medicaid program, which has strict work requirements—so far just 5,118 have.
Now that they know about the staggering number of deaths the Saudi megaproject has caused, architects have absolutely no more excuses.
Amid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.
From Kansas to South Carolina, Republican have come up with a terrifying solution to the childcare crisis: remove some of the basic guardrails ensuring safe, quality care for young children.<...
In 2024, writers with StudentNation captured the stories of an emerging generation—and revealed where journalism is headed.
In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, it’s clear we’re defending against the wrong perils.
The city’s metro hosts—and authorities unofficially sanction—a queer institution unlike any other.
How do you tell the history of a global movement in all its hope and contradiction?
In The Hidden Globe, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines what globalization has come to look like for the wealthy.
Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented?
A new film examines Trump's formative years under the tutelage of Roy Cohn.