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The Brooklyn Potluck That Helped Black Literature Flourish

The Brooklyn Potluck That Helped Black Literature Flourish The Brooklyn Potluck That Helped Black Literature Flourish

In Courtney Thorsson's cultural history The Sisterhood, she details how intimate gatherings played a role in the golden age of Black women's writing.

Sep 17, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Marina Magloire

JD Vance smiling

JD Vance Can’t Even Bullshit Properly JD Vance Can’t Even Bullshit Properly

Donald Trump is a world-class BS artist. His running mate is just a twitchy liar.

Sep 16, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Private Equity Steps Up to the Plate

Private Equity Steps Up to the Plate Private Equity Steps Up to the Plate

Diamond Baseball Holdings is taking over minor league baseball and reaping the benefits of hundreds of millions in taxpayer subsidies.

Sep 16, 2024 / Amos Barshad

Republican vice presidential nominee US Senator JD Vance (R-OH) speaks with the media at the airport before he departs on September 14, 2024, in Greenville, North Carolina.

How the Liberal Media Gave Us JD Vance How the Liberal Media Gave Us JD Vance

The months-long romance between Vance and an easily duped press in 2016 led directly to his sordid political rise.

Sep 16, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

A tryptich of Reid Hoffman, Barry Diller, and VP Kamala Harris

Kamala’s Capitalist Class Kamala’s Capitalist Class

Both parties have little trouble attracting support from the superrich. But a closer look reveals fissures within the ruling class.

Sep 16, 2024 / Doug Henwood

JD Vance speaks with attendees during the Farm Science Review event in London, Ohio, in September 2021.

JD Vance, AppHarvest, and the Hazards of “Rural Vibes” JD Vance, AppHarvest, and the Hazards of “Rural Vibes”

The Ohio senator was supposed to bring “rural credibility” to Donald Trump’s third run for the White House. But his only attempt at farming crashed and burned through $800 million...

Sep 16, 2024 / Sarah Taber

Gary Oldman, Rosalind Eleazar, and Dustin Demri-Burns in “Slow Horses.”

The Ornery Intrigues of “Slow Horses” The Ornery Intrigues of “Slow Horses”

Emblematic of post–prestige television drama, AppleTV+’s spy thriller relies on the dyspeptic repartee and verbal sparring instead of sophisticated plot twists.

Sep 16, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte

A Philly Thrive protest at the auctioning of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in New York City.

Will the Closure of an Oil Refinery Bring Justice or Gentrification to Philadelphia? Will the Closure of an Oil Refinery Bring Justice or Gentrification to Philadelphia?

Four years after the largest oil refinery on the East Coast shut down, residents in South and Southwest Philadelphia still don’t know what will come next.

Sep 16, 2024 / StudentNation / Amber X. Chen

Nation Poetry

[“I knew almost for certain...”] [“I knew almost for certain...”]

Sep 16, 2024 / Poems / Vasyl Stus

Former president Donald Trump and Ohio Senator JD Vance attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, in New York City.

Trump and Vance Won’t Be Happy Until Springfield Haitians Die Trump and Vance Won’t Be Happy Until Springfield Haitians Die

Trump’s gambit is bad, but Vance’s is even worse. He’s one of Ohio’s senators; these are his constituents. How can he endanger them like this?

Sep 13, 2024 / Joan Walsh

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