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Gwendolen Cates Demonstrators gather near the United Nations in New York on September 24, 2026, protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and its policies.

Leena Barakat, Pamela Shifman We must counter fear and division with solidarity.

Katrina vanden Heuvel One is an imperial gangster; the other seeks to create a world “not based on greed but based on justice, on decency.”

Elie Mystal This term the Supreme Court has plans to trample even more of our rights.

Brianna Di Monda Teaching in the South of France, I learned that equality was just a story teachers told about themselves.

June Loper, Harrison Stetler France’s education system is stretched to its limits, as student anger kicks off a hot fall protest season.

Steve Brodner No fatties.

Elie Mystal In this week’s Elie v.

John Nichols Even before her state botched another execution, gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green was telling Tennesseans that “the death penalty has always been inhumane, expensive, and biased.”

Andrea Arroyo Censorship targets those who dare to challenge power.

Sam Levine When every price and wage is personalized, organizing gets harder.

Pietro A.

Sasha Abramsky Trump’s refusal to heed the warnings from within the tech industry might end up being his most asinine legacy.

David Faris The American action in the contested strait isn’t sustainable—and won’t alter the economic and political fallout from its closure.

Jeannine Chiang Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to Ithaca students about tuition hikes, sexual violence, free speech, and university governance.

Clay Jones Is now OK.

Mark Hertsgaard The world’s third- and fourth-largest economies have pledged to environmental protections.

Aaron Ross Coleman Justin Leroy’s The Lowest Freedom points toward the limits of liberty under racial capitalism.

Katrina vanden Heuvel It has never been more urgent to revive the idea of peace, not as a slogan, but as the only serious, respectable, responsible, reasonable, humane position.

Lindsay Owens How the subscription squeeze is ending.

Elie Mystal While the president is unlikely to face any consequences for his patently illegal, taxpayer-funded ads, it’s essential to remember he should.

Barry Schwabsky That so much of the art of “In Minor Keys” is muted in effect is ironic, because so much of it is overproduced, aspirationally eye-catching, and so big.

Jeanne Flavin A call for freedom written across a pedestrian overpass, framed by wire.

Kali Holloway By redefining the meaning of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act, the administration is giving big corporations a gift they have long demanded.

Marshall Ganz It’s the people, stupid.

Michael T.

Sena Chang Sanseitō has attracted young voters through a robust social-media strategy, Charlie Kirk–like public speaking events, and anti-establishment messaging.

Nicole Froio A conversation with the author of Sex and Dissent about what American feminists can learn from the Green Wave movement.

Chris Lehmann But as brazen and authoritarian as these ad spots are, they seem likely to backfire.

Richard Kreitner In the 1940s, The Nation asked questions about the atomic bomb we’re asking of artificial intelligence today.

Anonymous At Trump’s visit.

Jeannine Chiang A new lawsuit alleging that a former student was drugged and gang-raped by Chi Phi fraternity members is sparking outrage in the Cornell community.

Austin Frerick A conversation with Eric Schlosser.

Jules Boykoff, Dave Zirin Bazunu’s decision raises the perennial question: Why is a country that is currently committing a genocide allowed to compete in the first place?

Ray Epstein, Shannon Porter Braden Peters consistently acts as though the autonomy of women is a maladaptive trait, and dogmatically dismisses any claim to female equality as an outlying aberration.

Jeet Heer The US Ambassador to Greece is making suspicious deals for her buddies.

Peter Kuper Trump ignores the threat of extinction.

Luca GoldMansour An interview with historian Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi about the generations of US presidents who have tried to destroy the Iranian regime.

Harrison Stetler, June Loper Between a budget crisis and a cost-of-living squeeze, Macron is leaving a country feeling more insecure than ever—and ready to take to the streets.

Sara Krolewski I grew up in a neighborhood manufactured by the University of California, Irvine.

Steve Brodner Bro magnon.

Elie Mystal In this week’s Elie v.

Ella Fanger Scenes from the defiant protest against the genocidal leader’s UN speech.

Grace Byron I talked to the political prisoner about the politics of love, her case, surviving as a trans woman in a men’s prison, and how she makes it through the day.

Jeet Heer Despite being embroiled in scandal, the Maine senator is benefiting from Democratic Party divisions.

Mark Kaplan Through the tulips.

Mark Hertsgaard On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting and New York Climate Week, the California governor called AOC “the real damn deal.”

Sasha Abramsky It was just one more of many examples of the president mirroring a fascist leadership.

Gregg Gonsalves If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.

Samantha Camire Disillusioned with the nuclear family and apprehensive of tethering their reproductive futures to the bleak hellscape of modern love, young people are seeking a different way.