The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk
How 1980s punk music birthed its own kind of radical politics.
Jan 6, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp
What We Can Learn About Activism Today in the Archives of Queer History What We Can Learn About Activism Today in the Archives of Queer History
Cait McKinney’s Information Activism argues that archiving work illustrates how access to information has improved the lives of marginalized people.
Jan 5, 2021 / Books & the Arts / M. Jesuthasan
Breakfast Table With Jewish Newsletters Breakfast Table With Jewish Newsletters
An argument with myself.
Jan 1, 2021 / Wallace Shawn
What Can We Learn From the 1918 Pandemic? What Can We Learn From the 1918 Pandemic?
A recent history of the pandemic illuminates not just parallels with our moment but how a public health crisis can become a political one as well.
Dec 29, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
2020 2020
We’ve had a year, you must admit, Whose misery would just not quit. At last, we offer this obit: We’re glad to see the back of it.
Dec 29, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
How the Fight Over Spain’s Anti-Fascist Legacy Involves a Former ‘Nation’ Editor How the Fight Over Spain’s Anti-Fascist Legacy Involves a Former ‘Nation’ Editor
Spain’s progressive government is protecting the tomb of Julio Álvarez del Vayo, foreign minister for the Republic during the Civil War and later a Nation editor. Spain’s right win...
Dec 28, 2020 / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
Somewhere Real Somewhere Real
Get in, George Eliot. I packed PB&Js. I’m bringing that rainbow parachute we held hands under as eight year olds. Get in, right beside Autumn, beside every manic pixie dream gi…
Dec 28, 2020 / Poems / Shira Erlichman
The Groundbreaking Honesty of Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism The Groundbreaking Honesty of Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism
His decades-long project of reportage in graphic form works like oral history—bearing witness to the historical traumas of his subjects.
Dec 28, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
Good Riddance to Robert E. Lee Good Riddance to Robert E. Lee
…and to “very fine people on both sides” apologias for Confederate infamy.
Dec 22, 2020 / John Nichols
How Should We Remember Ellis Island? How Should We Remember Ellis Island?
Ellis Island: A People’s History looks at the everyday injustices that have haunted the country’s stance on immigration for centuries.
Dec 22, 2020 / Books & the Arts / J. Howard Rosier