Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed that independent journalism has the capacity to bring about a more democratic and equitable world.

Pamela Alma Weymouth writes at The Mother Battle. She’s working on a novel, The Great Mexican Do-Over: Lessons In Life, Death, Heartbreak & Hope, and a memoir, Surviving Twinland: The Shock & Awe of ...

Trump and RFK Jr. have made every effort to undermine one of the major civilizing advances of the 20th century—our public ...

These rollbacks are part of the debilitating horror that right-wing dogmatists experience before the workings of secular and skeptical inquiry—the prospect that the ownership of their children (and ...

The railroad once represented the American dream of expansion—and exploitation. But is train travel becoming a thing of the past?

Journalist Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Lovato is also an assistant ...

Walking into Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson’s election night party, I recognized very few people. The mainstream ...

His deals are informed by hyper-transactional dealmaking.

At a moment when large-scale resistance can feel futile,
there are other ways to oppose, engage, and fight back.

The United States is so polarized that it often seems on the verge of civic breakdown, if not civil war. But one issue still has the power to unite the political elite: the shared desire among ...

Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed that independent journalism has the capacity to bring about a ...

Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed that independent journalism has the capacity to bring about a ...