While the US was a troubled nation long before the coronavirus, our failure to treat the pandemic as an enduring emergency ...

An interview with the best-selling author about her latest project, The Portable Feminist Reader.

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Elon Musk's rampage through the government is a classic PE takeover, replete with bogus numbers and sociopathic executives.

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The detention and attempted deportation of Khalil is a test by Trump to see how far he can go—and a test of us to see how ...

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The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...

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