Category: Politics

On the night of the military-style raid at a Chicago apartment complex, a loud boom woke the Nigerian man who lived in Unit 215. Tolulope Akinsulie stood up from his bed and saw heavily armed federal agents rushing into his apartment. He then felt the jaws of a large dog biting into his right ankle, […]

By conflating Judaism and Zionism, institutional leaders have made Jews everywhere less safe. Ad Policy A United Jewish Appeal sign outside a synagogue. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd. / NurPhoto via Getty Images) For several years now, Jewish communal leaders and institutions have been warning of a precipitous rise in antisemitism in the United States—and for […]

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, This is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the hour: Jews against Zionism: During the firs part of the 20th century, 100,000 Eastern European Jews joined a socialist organization we call the Bund, and they believed that Jews should fight for full rights wherever they were, not […]

The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is. Ad Policy Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answers a question on the hantavirus in the Oval Office on May 11, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) First, the good news: If you are in the United States, you are not going to […]

May 13, 2026 Their insult will arouse us—and put Republican incumbents’ own seats at risk. Ad Policy Democratic South Carolina State Representatives Hamilton Grant and Annie McDaniel look over a proposed congressional map during a meeting in the Blatt Building at the South Carolina State Capitol in Columbia on Friday, May 8, 2026.(Sam Wolfe / […]

Virginia Democrats’ appeal to the Supreme Court to save their state’s new congressional map is a sad case in point. Ad Policy A “Vote Yes” sign urging voters to support a referendum to redraw Virginia’s Congressional map.(Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Democratic Party is reeling. The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. […]

From illegal war on Iran to an inhumane fuel blockade of Cuba, from AI weapons to crypto corruption, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence.  Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations, The Nation publishes stories that hold the powerful to account and center the communities too […]

Denise Powell pulled ahead Tuesday night in a close race with John Cavanaugh in Tuesday’s 2nd Congressional District primary in

NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut about Pentagon spending on the U.S. war against Iran.

Can New York’s mayor govern as a democratic socialist? (Matthew Hoen / NurPhoto via Getty Images) This article appears in the June 2026 issue, with the headline “Mamdani’s New Era.” My route to Knockdown Center—the cavernous music venue in Maspeth, Queens, where New York’s mayor and his supporters celebrated the first 100 days of what […]