The author of The Overseer Class discusses how people in marginalized groups can “mistake representation for liberation and confuse visibility with safety,” as Kwaneta Harris put it.

The president’s successful campaign to remove the rebel congressman has a real chance of backfiring.

Archives are where forgotten lives, hidden histories, and unfinished stories wait to be rediscovered.

We are not in unprecedented territory. We are returning to form.

He’s a contender for the spot not so much for who he is now but because of the person he is clearly becoming.

The pioneering Chicano studies scholar, who died in March, reshaped the writing of history.

Revealing the dangerous alliance of techno-fascists with finance capital and the military-industrial complex.

Nixon and his henchmen went to great lengths to conceal their slush-money crimes. Trump and his MAGA coterie don’t have to worry about that.

In 1928’ s Ginster, the German writer broke the mold of the World War I novel by refusing politics for aesthetics.

Trump and Kim have something in common: their desire for total control.

And it will be paid for with your tax dollars.

After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island.

As his war in Iran wreaks havoc, Trump is fixated on personal glory and enrichment.

The spike in solitary confinement epitomizes the abuses of a migrant detention system that seems to be spinning out of control.

Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.

An outdated law has allowed Big Tech to evade accountability for 30 years. Now landmark court rulings are giving consumers a chance to fight back.

I talked to troops and cadets about the kind of masculinity the military encourages. Its ripple effects on mental health are dire.

Justice Alito called the Supreme Court’s order “unreasoned” and “remarkable,” while feigning ignorance over the decades of research pointing to mifepristone’s safety.

In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent examines Democrats’ strategy to combat GOP gerrymanders. Plus: a look at the next major anti-trans case.

Liberty and Justins.

Every war represents a colossal failure of the imagination, but this one, with the Trump trademark on it, should be considered the ur-war to oppose.

A conversation with the author about her new book’s regretful relevance amidst escalatingly violent ICE detainments.

The streamer managed to make a celebrity roast for the innocuous comedian Kevin Hart into an ideological free-fire zone—another sign of the Trumpification of pop culture.

As reproductive rights shrink nationwide, university students are building grassroots networks to get contraception to their peers.

Trump’s second term is unabashedly a project of self-enrichment and oligarchic rule.

The claim that the founders meant America to be a Christian nation isn’t just bad history—it’s a declaration of war by the religious right.

Our economy allows poor and working people to be shafted every day—does anyone care?

Higher temperatures, like this coming summer’s, bring more infectious diseases.

The mayor’s new budget finds him making deals—while trying to keep his promises.

A candidate from Philadelphia, running in America’s 250th year, has a plan to restore checks and balances on kingly presidents and renew the constitutional authority of Congress.

The Trump White House has weaponized all the arms of federal law enforcement to intimidate its political enemies and critics, undermining the rule of law and democracy.

The Nation was among the first publications to report the CIA’s role in the 1953 overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.

The art and architecture of New York’s vast and sweeping waterfront.

It’s incapable of producing anything creative that isn’t dreck.

Tim Wu’s Age of Extraction lays out an antitrust strategy for fighting platform capitalism. But does the challenge posed by Big Tech require a new playbook?

Red states aren’t just gerrymandering away voting rights—they’re working overtime to suppress the vote in as many ways as possible.

The death of the NBA’s first openly gay player at 47 underscores a hard truth: Male professional sports remains hostile terrain for openly queer athletes.

The authors want to inform people in women’s prisons about their rights. “There’s no way to survive in there unless we know what our rights are.”

By conflating Judaism and Zionism, institutional leaders have made Jews everywhere less safe.

Virginia Democrats’ appeal to the Supreme Court to save their state’s new congressional map is a sad case in point.

Their insult will arouse us—and put Republican incumbents’ own seats at risk.

Compared to her other films, The Fence is a minor work. But it contains within it a set of expansive themes.

The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is.

The Trump administration wields the full strength of its punitive power against immigrants, political opponents, and marginalized groups—and pardons January 6 offenders.