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

Trump has put the nation’s capital under federal occupation. Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed ...

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

Walking into Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson’s election night party, I recognized very few people. The mainstream Democratic standard-bearers were all missing. In their place was a crowd of 20- ...

His deals are informed by hyper-transactional dealmaking.

Zohran Mamdani’s favorite mayor was nobody’s idea of a shoo-in—until he became inevitable.

New York's political establishment threw the whole post-9/11 playbook against the Democratic nominee for mayor, and came up ...

Red scares in the American past and present. What are the parallels between the rise of McCarthyism in the 1950s and today?  ...

The state’s attorney general, Letitia James, has emerged as a North Star in the chaos of the second Trump administration.

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 ...