At the start of the school year, two professors provide some hard truths about the state of academia and what you should ...

Peter Kuper Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The Nation. His graphic novel Insectopolis, a history of insects, will be ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during a cabinet meeting at the White House in ...

Jon Batiste sympathizes with the growing number of people avoiding the news these days, but the global music star has an ...

A new monthly column from The Nation takes on the plutocrats wielding their wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us ...

Silenced and sidelined and between nation-states, young people are organizing for an independent Kashmir.

The victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell’s sex-trafficking scheme are increasingly banding together—and could wind ...

With Trump’s power grabs escalating, the Democratic establishment is still taking the time to fret over a rising star in its ...

Clint Eastwood at Cannes Film Festival, 2017. Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven is a movie filled with men whose ornery, world-beating reputations precede them. One of these is the braggadocious gunslinger ...

Dan-el Padilla Peralta is most recently the author of Classicism and Other Phobias (Princeton University Press, 2025).

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.

Nine decades have passed since aerial technology began assisting war makers—since then, it has become a tool of systemic brutality.