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10 Stories From 2019 That Might Just Renew Your Faith in Politics

10 Stories From 2019 That Might Just Renew Your Faith in Politics 10 Stories From 2019 That Might Just Renew Your Faith in Politics

From funding for the Census to Stacey Abrams’s persistence, progressives did score some victories this year.

Dec 24, 2019 / Steve Phillips

Who Gets to Be Color-Blind?

Who Gets to Be Color-Blind? Who Gets to Be Color-Blind?

Thomas Chatterton Williams argues in his new book that race is something individuals can unlearn. But no matter how socially constructed racial identity may be, our lived experienc...

Nov 11, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Ismail Muhammad

Debt Is Holding Black Americans Hostage

Debt Is Holding Black Americans Hostage Debt Is Holding Black Americans Hostage

To break free, we need an honest conversation about reparations and forgiveness on a mass scale.

Nov 7, 2019 / Edna Bonhomme

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Letters From the November 11/18, 2019, Issue Letters From the November 11/18, 2019, Issue

A Matter of Degrees I have been most interested in The Nation’s coverage of the climate crisis, particularly Daniel Judt’s “https://www.thenation.com/article/senegal-climate-injust…

Oct 29, 2019 / Our Readers

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom

History has always been a weapon in the hands of Ta-Nehisi Coates. Now, in his debut novel, the social critic and essayist sets out to recover those struggles for emancipation that...

Oct 29, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques

The Workers That Built America

The Workers That Built America The Workers That Built America

A new book puts the black working class at the center of American history.

Oct 7, 2019 / Books & the Arts / William P. Jones

Do I Need Diversity in Every Issue of My Magazine?

Do I Need Diversity in Every Issue of My Magazine? Do I Need Diversity in Every Issue of My Magazine?

And a male teenager asks how about the line between “normal thoughts of sex and objectification.”

Sep 27, 2019 / Liza Featherstone

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Letters From the October 7, 2019, Issue Letters From the October 7, 2019, Issue

Sold out, again… Blame the media?…

Sep 24, 2019 / Our Readers

Bustos and Pelosi

In Repairing Its Image, the DCCC Has Only Scratched the Surface In Repairing Its Image, the DCCC Has Only Scratched the Surface

If the committee truly wants to diversify and strengthen the Democratic caucus, it should put its money where its mouth is.

Sep 18, 2019 / Steve Phillips

We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

The Arnautoff murals in San Francisco have been denounced as demeaning and triggering, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.

Sep 10, 2019 / Feature / Robin D.G. Kelley

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