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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The administration’s tariff policies have thrust soybean farmers into economic chaos as they navigate higher input costs and shifts in global trade.

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 ...

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

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.