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people hold flags at a may day rally in Brazil

With Lula in Charge, What’s Next for the Brazilian Left? With Lula in Charge, What’s Next for the Brazilian Left?

Brazilian labor leaders Artur Henrique and Marcio Pochmann share their thoughts on the continuing danger of the far right in Brazil.

May 15, 2023 / Q&A / Bill Fletcher Jr. and Bill Gallegos

Appalachia Mountains

What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia

Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel shows the reality of the opioid and foster care crises in the region without resorting to stale stereotypes.

May 15, 2023 / StudentNation / Jessica Miller

Introducing the 2023 Puffin Student Writing Fellows

Introducing the 2023 Puffin Student Writing Fellows Introducing the 2023 Puffin Student Writing Fellows

Selected from a highly competitive applicant pool of entrants from coast to coast, ten student journalists will be mentored by leading Nation voices, bestselling authors, and award...

May 15, 2023 / StudentNation / Press Room

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100 Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100

We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office, from helping Nixon derail the Paris Peace Talks and prolong the Vietnam War to green-lighting the invasion o...

May 15, 2023 / Feature / Greg Grandin

Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile

Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile

The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.

May 15, 2023 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh

Big Bill Haywood, Adolph Lessing, and Carlo Tresca, Paterson, New Jersey, 1913.

The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union

A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.

May 15, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin

Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign speaks at the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival Rally at the US Supreme Court on October 27, 2021.

The Poor People’s Campaign Launched on Mother’s Day 2018 The Poor People’s Campaign Launched on Mother’s Day 2018

It culminated in a season of nonviolent direct action.

May 14, 2023 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Emmett Louis Till, 14, with his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, at home in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune file photo/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

He Called for His Mother He Called for His Mother

Mamie Till-Mobley was one of the first in a far-too-long line of Black mothers to seek justice for their sons.

May 14, 2023 / Lottie Joiner

Cable Noose

Cable Noose Cable Noose

Golden calf.

May 12, 2023 / Steve Brodner

Former president Donald Trump greets supporters at a campaign rally in

Republican Voters Are Ready for the Next Culture War Republican Voters Are Ready for the Next Culture War

After Donald Trump was found liable for battery and defamation in federal court, his base has continued to rally behind him.

May 12, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky

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