Conservatives’ Freakout Over the 1619 Project Reveals Their Fear of America’s Actual Past Conservatives’ Freakout Over the 1619 Project Reveals Their Fear of America’s Actual Past
It turns out conservatives love history—unless it’s true.
Aug 21, 2019 / Jeet Heer
Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Finish What FDR Started
And it could give Democrats a fighting chance in farm country and small-town America.
Aug 20, 2019 / John Nichols
Trump’s America Is Worse Than Orwell’s ‘1984’ Trump’s America Is Worse Than Orwell’s ‘1984’
As global warming intensifies, our world is becoming bleaker than one of the darkest dystopias ever imagined.
Aug 20, 2019 / Tom Engelhardt
Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias Bernie Sanders Has a Smart Critique of Corporate Media Bias
And thankfully, bad press matters less and less.
Aug 20, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Everything You Think You Know About ‘Free Speech’ Is a Lie Everything You Think You Know About ‘Free Speech’ Is a Lie
How far-right operatives manufactured the “crisis” of free speech with books, think tanks—and billions of dollars.
Aug 20, 2019 / P.E. Moskowitz
Graydon Carter’s E-mail Newsletter for the Rich and Boring Graydon Carter’s E-mail Newsletter for the Rich and Boring
His latest media venture, Air Mail, is an exercise in misplaced nostalgia for the heyday of glossy magazines.
Aug 19, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Chayka
How the US Media Demonizes Iran How the US Media Demonizes Iran
Lesson 1: When the missile is American, use the passive voice.
Aug 19, 2019 / Serge Halimi and Pierre Rimbert
I Don’t Want ‘The New York Times’ to Join the Resistance. I Want It to Tell the Truth. I Don’t Want ‘The New York Times’ to Join the Resistance. I Want It to Tell the Truth.
I’m not trying to drive a boycott. I’m trying to get the paper of record to listen.
Aug 16, 2019 / Joan Walsh
Bernie Sanders Is As Frustrated as Ever With Corporate Media Bernie Sanders Is As Frustrated as Ever With Corporate Media
The senator explains to The Nation why he is raising concerns not just about the presidential debates but about the media’s narrow coverage of national crises.
Aug 16, 2019 / John Nichols
Media Companies Are (Still) Failing When It Comes to Diversity Media Companies Are (Still) Failing When It Comes to Diversity
We all need to do better—and that includes The Nation.
Aug 15, 2019 / D.D. Guttenplan