![Dan Osborn, independent candidate for the US Senate, speaks during a news conference on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at his Omaha, Nebraska, home announcing that he will not accept any party or political endorsements.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/osborn.jpg)
Meet Dan Osborn, the Heartland Populist From Nebraska Who’s Running for the Senate Meet Dan Osborn, the Heartland Populist From Nebraska Who’s Running for the Senate
He knows the breadbasket of the country and has a record of helping working people put food on the table.
Oct 8, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
![A student uses their cell phone after unlocking the pouch that secures it from use during the school day at Bayside Academy in California.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/School-Cell-Phone-Ban.jpg)
Why a School Cell Phone Ban Isn't the Right Call Why a School Cell Phone Ban Isn't the Right Call
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has considered a statewide ban on smart devices in schools, but many parents, students, and teachers have a more nuanced view.
Oct 8, 2024 / StudentNation / Ushoshi Das
![California Explains It All](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/full-tzhou-reskinoff.jpg)
California Explains It All California Explains It All
To understand US politics—for better and for worse—look to the Golden State.
Oct 8, 2024 / Ned Resnikoff
![A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave at St Thomas A. Beckett churchyard, Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, 2011.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-136200753.jpeg)
The Silencing of Sylvia Plath The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes.
Oct 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Feeley
![Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a rally at Ripon College on October 3, 2024, in Ripon, Wisconsin.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KamalaHarrisPodium.jpg)
Kamala Harris Is Taking a Big Risk by Playing It Safe Kamala Harris Is Taking a Big Risk by Playing It Safe
The Democratic nominee is acting like protecting her small lead is more important than energizing her base. We’ve seen this story before—and it didn’t end well.
Oct 7, 2024 / Jeet Heer
![A Year Ago Today](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/1440_FEAT-5.jpg)
A Year Ago Today A Year Ago Today
A horrific attack and monstrous war with no end in sight.
Oct 7, 2024 / OppArt / Tayseer Barakat
![A sea of Palestinian flags waved by fans in the stands of the UEFA Champions League football match between Borussia Dortmund and Celtic in Dortmund, western Germany on October 1, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/celtic.jpg)
In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel
FIFA banned apartheid South Africa. It banned Russia for invading Ukraine. But about Israel, FIFA does nothing.
Oct 7, 2024 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin
![A Palestinian woman carrying her child in her arms cries in front of a building destroyed in Israel's attack on the Bureij Refugee Camp on September 19, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2172142139.jpg)
‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’ ‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’
Dispatches from Gaza on surviving a year of genocide.
Oct 7, 2024 / Lujayn, Mohammed R. Mhawish, Ahmed Abu Artema, and Hani Almadhoun
![Protesters rally in support of Gaza and Lebanon in Washington Square Parl on October 5, 2024, in New York City.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2176078850.jpg)
Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again
Day by day, for a year, the Israeli military waged an unrelenting campaign of extermination against Palestinians in Gaza. Day by day, people of conscience tried to stop it.
Oct 7, 2024 / Noura Erakat
![Kamala Harris walks out with former US representative Liz Cheney during a rally at Ripon College on October 3, 2024 in Ripon, Wisconsin.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2175688442.jpg)
Kamala Harris—Not Liz Cheney—Is Calling Republicans Back to Their Party’s Roots Kamala Harris—Not Liz Cheney—Is Calling Republicans Back to Their Party’s Roots
The Republican Party was not founded as a vehicle for Trumpism or Cheneyism. It was a radical party that championed economic and social and racial justice.
Oct 7, 2024 / John Nichols