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 ...

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.

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Our bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, requires the attorney general to release the files within 30 days while ...

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

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

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

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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 ...