Will the Creative Class Go MAGA?
It may be hard to resist the lure of power and patronage.
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It may be hard to resist the lure of power and patronage.
Tariff-induced higher prices and supply chain problems are just the start of the pain Trumponomics will inflict.
Dean Baker for The Nation
Hegseth is terrible at every part of his job except the one that matters to Trump—a willingness to break with norms that keep the military in check.
The global press corps must stop looking at Gaza as someone else’s crisis—and start demanding justice.
As a candidate he promised a “massive” crackdown. But since taking office his actions, though designed to be as frightening as possible, have fallen far short of that.
From the moment the McCarran-Walter Act was passed in 1952, The Nation has sounded the alarm about the danger it posed to politically active immigrants.
For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
At a Jalisco ranch, investigators found bone fragments and three suspected crematoria. Families toured the camp, hoping to find clues about their missing family members.
“We work in the heat and cold to put food on the table [in] this country, but they call us criminals,” said one worker. “We need to lift up our voice.”
As the Trump administration tries to remake society along apartheid lines, your vote to stop the assault, however unlikely, is absolutely essential.
Boys don't need special treatment—it's entitlement that's getting them into trouble.
Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech.
Boys don’t cry… A call to action… The war party… Traveling to Cuba… Bill vs. Hill… Burning questions… The best medicine… Correction…
Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.
While most of the world looked away, a new nuclear arms race has broken out between the US, Russia, and China, raising the risk of nuclear confrontation to the highest in decades.
The legalization and rapid spread of sports betting has made problem gambling everyone’s problem.
A graphic episode from Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me.
The promoters of scam currency spent more money than any other group in 2024. They're now realizing a massive return on investment in Donald Trump’s White House.
By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?
The radical life and work of the historian.
Her fiction are studies of fragmentation and ambivalence.
In the aftermath of this year's catastrophic fires, architects and urban planners begin to consider how to rebuild.
In their new albums, the musicians look backward as much as forward.