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Dave Zirin The Knicks shouldn’t let their legacy include genuflecting to Donald Trump, one of the most hated figures in the very city printed on their jersey.

Paul Karasik Science-fiction nightmares are now current events.

Hadas Thier In order to build a broad-based coalition, we need to work together—not practice purity politics.

Chuck Collins Private-equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has been busy pillaging healthcare and the life sciences.

Karrie Jacobs The president plans to remake the capital in his own image, but is all he is doing destroying what’s already there?

Jeet Heer Never mind some future apocalypse—AI is being used right now to cause enormous suffering.

Richard Kreitner The poet wrote for The Nation for decades, always demonstrating conscience and prescience.

Ilana Cohen Data center opposition can foster a bigger Democratic tent by aligning red and blue, and rural and urban communities.

Marcus Barnett But the autumn budget to be released at the end of October will offer needed details.

Stephen Zunes She believes that human rights and international law are universal principles that must be enforced regardless of violator’s ideology, ethnicity, or geostrategic alignment.

John Nichols Minnesotans say the raid on Omar’s home was all about politics.

Max Moran Corporate leaders say they should be shielded from congressional inquiries because they had no alternative but to collaborate with the Trump administration.

Katha Pollitt Everything that Jane Doe went through could have been stopped, if someone had bothered to intervene.

Prajwal Bhat After a federal agent shot an immigrant in New York, activists are questioning Mamdani’s handling of the NYPD and his relationship with the White House.

Andrea Arroyo Allegations of gang rape and sex trafficking at Cornell University highlight persistent concerns about rape culture, even years after the #MeToo movement.

David Futrelle …even as AI courts serial real-world disasters, defaces the environment with data centers, and is not about to return your empathy in kind.

Diana Sophia Cordoba Without full-time teachers, temperature-regulated classrooms, or school nurses, French students are turning their grievances into a national movement.

Lily Seltz, Lara-Nour Walton College sexual assault is predictable.

Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation Candidates in 2026 are responding to an electorate that’s ready to abolish ICE, tax the billionaire class, and free Palestine.

Jen Sorensen Fossils.

Lottie Joiner After the federal firings, Black women felt betrayed and disillusioned.

Jasper Craven The first major hazing scandal in American history occurred at West Point in 1900.

Heidi Ho The lack of access to university administration makes it hard for student reporters to report fully on campus affairs.

Sasha Abramsky I’m finally starting to understand why Jim Jones’s lieutenants didn’t try to stop him.

Jeannine Chiang “We won’t be silenced anymore.

June Loper, Harrison Stetler The speed and scale of the police response is unprecedented.

Victoria Law An interview with the author of The Hill about her debut novel and the artist’s role in documenting atrocities.

Peter Kuper Clarence Thomas, the picture of corruption.

Lottie Joiner Black women working for the federal government did what they were supposed to do.

Ben Schwartz The Ellison family's $110 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros.

Katrina vanden Heuvel Let’s build an economy where patients, renters, and even youth hockey teams are given priority over investor profits.

Luca GoldMansour Establishment Democrats obsessing over Hasan Piker’s every move seem to have no issue talking to Maher, despite his decades of open bigotry.

Ethan Sun From pro-life summits to Palantir résumé drops, the David Network is discreetly building a pipeline for conservative college students.

Mohammed R.

Felipe Galindo Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure heighten regional tensions and push up oil prices.

Lottie Joiner Trump’s federal workforce cuts dismantled a job pipeline for Washington, DC’s Black community and gutted the well-being of the women who hold up that community.

Camille Rivera With more than 900,000 Puerto Rican voters, Florida can be won in 2026 and put in play for 2028.

Kate Wagner The Austrian capital chose not to privatize the commons, and it shows.

Stephen Crowley Dangerous rhetoric has been escalating on both sides for some time now.

Zachary Clifton For the first time in 50 years, Yale students gathered around an iconic sculpture to protest their university and their government.

Elie Mystal The question is whether the Supreme Court will let it.

Eric Baker Trump.

Elsie Carson-Holt Talking to Tyler Hack, who leads the nation’s only political action group dedicated solely to getting trans rights supporters elected.

Cate Latimer, Alice Scott Milan van Dam says Gen Z is the generation that is most empathetic toward their peers.

Chris Lehmann The disgraced former congressman was a better representative of the GOP than the party would like to admit.

Jonathan Schlefer American analysts have long viewed inequality as a byproduct of technological causes.

Kate McMahon A new order for Khan al-Ahmar’s destruction failed to attract the international attention that had protected it in the past, and residents fear they can no longer stop the bulldozers.

William W.

Elizabeth Spiers I tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating.

Jeet Heer Christa Pike's botched lethal injection proves there is no humane form of execution.