Good News Alert: Democrats Might Actually Flip the Michigan Legislature Good News Alert: Democrats Might Actually Flip the Michigan Legislature
What’s their secret sauce? Support for public education.
Oct 28, 2022 / Jennifer C. Berkshire
Your College RA Deserves a Union Your College RA Deserves a Union
Resident Advisers are workers and should demand employment status, union recognition, and fair wages. Universities cannot function without them.
Oct 28, 2022 / StudentNation / Ava Young-Stoner
How Useful Is Theory In Moments of Crisis? How Useful Is Theory In Moments of Crisis?
A conversation with sociologist Dylan Riley about the state of left politics, defending social theory as a political tool, and his new book Microverses.
Oct 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ishan Desai-Geller
Will the Haitian Crisis Lead to Yet Another Military Intervention? Will the Haitian Crisis Lead to Yet Another Military Intervention?
With gangs holding the country hostage, and violence spinning out of control, the US and the UN play pass the parcel.
Oct 27, 2022 / Amy Wilentz
Stacey Abrams Explains Her Work, and Remembering Mike Davis Stacey Abrams Explains Her Work, and Remembering Mike Davis
On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, we talk with the Georgia gubernatorial candidate and play an interview with the late author and friend of The Nation, Mike Davis.
Oct 27, 2022 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
How Black Landowners in the South Are Recovering Lost Generational Wealth How Black Landowners in the South Are Recovering Lost Generational Wealth
Industry encroachment and farm consolidation contributed to decades of Black-owned land loss. In North Carolina, many are fighting to recoup what was lost.
Oct 26, 2022 / Photo Essay / Cameron Oglesby
Mike Davis: 1946–2022 Mike Davis: 1946–2022
A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory.
Oct 25, 2022 / Obituary / Jon Wiener
Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy
Pollster Stanley Greenberg is the Cassandra warning of Democratic Party complacency.
Oct 24, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Trans People’s Rights Are on the Ballot, but Many Won’t Be Able to Vote Trans People’s Rights Are on the Ballot, but Many Won’t Be Able to Vote
Over 850,000 trans Americans are eligible to vote in the midterms. But strict voter ID laws, less mail-in voting, and other barriers will make it more difficult.
Oct 24, 2022 / StudentNation / Theia Chatelle
Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives Leaderless, Rudderless Britain Is at the Mercy of Desperate Conservatives
Liz Truss was a hopeless, incompetent leader. But the temptation of a return to the discredited certainties of free-market dogma proved impossible for her party to resist.
Oct 21, 2022 / Gary Younge