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Republicans Have the Biden Presidency Caught in a Unity Trap Republicans Have the Biden Presidency Caught in a Unity Trap

While fake unity just means doing whatever Republicans want, authentic unity requires marginalizing the promoters of lies and racism in the interest of creating a more genuinely eq...

Feb 5, 2021 / Column / Jeet Heer

46 and Done: Why Joe Biden Should Be Our Last President

46 and Done: Why Joe Biden Should Be Our Last President 46 and Done: Why Joe Biden Should Be Our Last President

Parliamentary democracies give their citizens tuition-free college, state-subsidized child care, generous paid leave, socialized medicine. We get “Hail to the Chief.”

Feb 5, 2021 / Column / Alexis Grenell

Democrats Need to Make Good on Their Promises

Democrats Need to Make Good on Their Promises Democrats Need to Make Good on Their Promises

Improving people’s financial well-being is good politics.

Feb 5, 2021 / Bryce Covert

‘The Nation’ Announces New Columnists David Bromwich, Alexis Grenell, and Jeet Heer

‘The Nation’ Announces New Columnists David Bromwich, Alexis Grenell, and Jeet Heer ‘The Nation’ Announces New Columnists David Bromwich, Alexis Grenell, and Jeet Heer

Incisive writers and thinkers join Katha Pollitt, Elie Mystal, and Kali Holloway in award-winning line-up of leading voices on the left.

Feb 5, 2021 / Press Room

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If Senators Won’t Kill the Filibuster, They Should at Least Sweat for It If Senators Won’t Kill the Filibuster, They Should at Least Sweat for It

The current version of the filibuster demands nothing of senators other than the desire to gum up democracy. That has to change.

Feb 4, 2021 / Elie Mystal for The Nation

Vaccine Shortage

Vaccine Shortage Vaccine Shortage

The impact of the shortage of Covid vaccines adds to the inequity in access and distribution.

Feb 4, 2021 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Can a Novel Really Capture the Spirit of the Internet?

Can a Novel Really Capture the Spirit of the Internet? Can a Novel Really Capture the Spirit of the Internet?

Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and the limits of literary fiction’s obsession with life online.

Feb 4, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Schurman Wallace

St. Louis Considers Spy Planes to Survey the City 18 Hours a Day

St. Louis Considers Spy Planes to Survey the City 18 Hours a Day St. Louis Considers Spy Planes to Survey the City 18 Hours a Day

Representative Cori Bush, who represents St. Louis, warns that aerial surveillance would have dire consequences for the city.

Feb 4, 2021 / Eoin Higgins

In India, Farmers Are Resisting Narendra Modi’s Propaganda Machine

In India, Farmers Are Resisting Narendra Modi’s Propaganda Machine In India, Farmers Are Resisting Narendra Modi’s Propaganda Machine

The government is using a pliant media and its social-media warriors to paint protesting farmers as secessionists.

Feb 4, 2021 / Ullekh N.P.

Sophie

I Wish We Could Be Dancing to Sophie I Wish We Could Be Dancing to Sophie

It’s an added cruelty that we cannot mourn the loss of the avant-pop icon properly.

Feb 4, 2021 / Annie Howard

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