Racism and Discrimination

Florida resident Ann Richter holds antisemitic flyers she found on her lawn.

Some Inconvenient Truths About Antisemitism and the Left Some Inconvenient Truths About Antisemitism and the Left

By ceding the space on antisemitism—responding when we are accused of it, but not taking up the fight against it as our cause—we’ve created a strategic opportunity for the right.

Feb 14, 2025 / Rachel Shabi

Mass Deportations Aren’t Just Evil. They’re Also Terrible Economics.

Mass Deportations Aren’t Just Evil. They’re Also Terrible Economics. Mass Deportations Aren’t Just Evil. They’re Also Terrible Economics.

Immigrants don’t steal citizens’ jobs and wages. They grow the economy for all.

Feb 14, 2025 / Column / Bryce Covert

Barbed Wire

Barbed Wire Barbed Wire

Trump’s immigration policies recall the camps of Nazi Germany.

Feb 13, 2025 / OppArt / Gio

Elon Musk prepares to speak at Donald Trump's Inauguration Day rally at the Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025.

Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid

Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.

Feb 13, 2025 / Elie Mystal

Screenshot of NewsNation segment about Donald Trump cutting federal DEI programs.

DEI Was Never Going to Save Us DEI Was Never Going to Save Us

Trump’s racist attacks on diversity initiatives must be resisted—but that shouldn’t prevent an honest conversation about the limits of what DEI can actually achieve.

Feb 13, 2025 / Malaika Jabali

Immigrant Resilience

Immigrant Resilience Immigrant Resilience

Illegal raids at workplaces, schools, and churches are instilling fear in the most vulnerable communities, but immigrant resistance is growing stronger.

Feb 7, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is GettyImages-2194583291.jpeg President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2025.

The White Nationalist in Chief’s Return to Power The White Nationalist in Chief’s Return to Power

No president in the post-civil-rights era has been as racially aggressive as the now-47th president.

Feb 7, 2025 / Clarence Lusane for The Nation

Still leaning left?: Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Senate Democrats Are Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons Senate Democrats Are Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for the Wrong Reasons

Preferring to defend spy agencies and line up behind the hawkish consensus, the bipartisan elite ignores the director of national intelligence nominee’s rampant Islamophobia.

Jan 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Protesters march through downtown Chicago, opposing Donald Trump's presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025.

The United States Has Always Been a Divided Nation The United States Has Always Been a Divided Nation

Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our nation—the one dedicated to the proposition of equality.

Jan 30, 2025 / Steve Phillips

Demonstrators march on the 60th anniversary of the March On Washington and Martin Luther King Jr's historic

Keep Going: Our Mission Has Not Changed Keep Going: Our Mission Has Not Changed

We owe it to our forebears, our families, our communities, and future generations to keep fighting for just causes, writes Nina Turner. We, too, shall overcome.

Jan 24, 2025 / Nina Turner

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