Exclusive: Lee Atwaters Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy The Nation 2026-09-21 | Exclusive: Lee Atwaters Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy
What Just Happened: Election Post-Mortem The Nation 2022-11-09 | A special, extended, wide-ranging conversation in the wake of the most important midterm election of our lives, featuring justice correspondent Elie Mystal, national affairs correspondents Joan Walsh and John Nichols, and D.C. bureau chief Chris Lehmann and moderated by editor D.D. Guttenplan.
The Nation Poetry: Katie Farris, Ama Codjoe, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Ilya Kaminsky The Nation 2022-09-28 | This is a recording from our second virtual reading series of 2022 featuring poets from the magazine’s pages hosted by Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar. Katie Farris’s work appears in American Poetry Review, Granta, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the author of the chapbook A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, which won the 2020 Chad Walsh Poetry Award from Beloit Poetry Journal, and boysgirls, a hybrid-form book, as well as co-translator of many books of poetry. Her first book of poems, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2023.Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude and Blood of the Air, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support from Bogliasco, Cave Canem, Robert Rauschenberg, and Saltonstall foundations as well as from Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hedgebrook, Yaddo, Hawthornden, and MacDowell. Her recent poems appeared in The Nation, The Common, The Atlantic, and the Best American Poetry series. Among other honors, Codjoe has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation.Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley to formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants. She is the author of the poetry collection Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series 2017), recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar, Oxford American, Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, and fellowships from CantoMundo and Jack Jones Literary Arts. She is a doctoral candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is working on a poetry and an essay collection while raising her son in Los Angeles. Find her on Twitter @Vanessid.Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in a Odessa (Tupelo) and Deaf Republic (Graywolf). Born in Odesa, Ukraine, he now lives in Atlanta.
You Voted To Form a Union. Now What? The Nation 2022-08-31 | You won your vote to start a union.. Now comes the hard part. Negotiations aren’t easy. A year after workers vote to unionize, more than half still don’t have a contract.After a year without a contract, management can push to legally dissolve a hard-won union. Reaching a good contract matters—so how do we get there? The Nation’s Strikes Correspondent, Jane McAlevey explains 3 core principles that can help workers win better contracts, faster.CREDITS:Host: Jane McAleveySenior Producer: Ludwig HurtadoAssociate Producer: Lucy Dean-StocktonResearch: Karen Ng, Finley MuratovaGraphics: Drew Evans
NO SAFE PLACE TO HIDE - a response to NYCs nuclear war PSA The Nation 2022-08-03 | Have we forgotten there is no safe place to hide in a nuclear war? Inform yourself of the facts: • Alliance for Science – What the science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war? - https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/03/what-the-science-says-could-humans-survive-a-nuclear-war-between-nato-and-russia/• ICAN (The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) - icanw.org• PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility) - psr.org• Defuse Nuclear War - defusenuclearwar.org• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - ippnw.org• Television Event (2021) - geni.us/televisionevent
The Nation Spring Poetry Reading The Nation 2022-06-10 | The Nation‘s Spring Poetry Reading featuring readings from Golden, Donika Kelly, and other poets that have appeared in the magazine's pages. Hosted by Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar.
OppArt: Say Their Names, Uvalde Victims The Nation 2022-06-08 | Remembering Victims of another mass shooting: On May 24, 2022, a 18-year-old killed 19 children and 2 teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.Credits: Andrea Arroyo
OppArt: Say Their Names, Buffalo Mass Shooting The Nation 2022-05-30 | Remembering Victims of the May 14, 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, the gunman targeted African Americans specifically, killing 10 people and injuring 3.Credits: Andrea Arroyo
After Roe: An Urgent Conversation The Nation 2022-05-26 | It now appears virtually certain that the Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v Wade, throwing huge swaths of the country into abortion deserts and moving the immediate fight to defend reproductive rights to the states. Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Elie Mystal, and Regina Mahone discuss what comes next and how we can best oppose the restrictions on abortion rights.
After Amazon: Unions, Capitalism and the Future of the Labor Movement The Nation 2022-05-11 | From baristas to housekeepers, from taxi drivers to Amazon workers, working people are taking on the behemoths of American capitalism. And they are winning. Why are these nascent organizing efforts succeeding? What do they mean for the future of the labor movement in America? And how can concerned citizens join together to support them? Scholars and organizers from across the labor movement joined The Nation for this special conversation about how we can make sense of workers’ recent victories and explore strategies for building on them.
Beyond Inclusion: Meet the BIPOC Press The Nation 2022-04-13 | The Nation’s editor D.D. Guttenplan and senior editor Lizzy Ratner talk with the co-founders of URL media—a network of Black and Brown-owned media platforms—Sara Lomax-Reese and S. Mitra Kalita and Laura Flanders, host of The Laura Flanders Show.
Art Spiegelman and Viet Thanh Nguyen: Why Banning Books Never Works The Nation 2022-03-23 | Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Art Spiegelman and Viet Thanh Nguyen talk about book bans and how we can effectively oppose our country’s creeping cultural censorship.
Elie Mystal in conversation with Dahlia Lithwick The Nation 2022-03-17 | The Nation’s Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal joins Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick to discuss modern originalism and the importance of critiquing the Constitution’s origins.
The Nation Poetry Reading Series: Claire Schwartz, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, and Phillip B. Williams The Nation 2022-03-10 | The Nation’s first virtual reading series of 2022, featuring poets from the magazine’s pages and hosted by Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar.Claire Schwartz is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Civil Service (Graywolf Press, 2022) and the culture editor of Jewish Currents. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Granta, Poetry Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of a recent chapbook Revolute (Albion Books, 2021) and three collections of poetry: My rice tastes like the lake, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press, Berkeley). Dhompa’s first non-fiction book, Coming Home to Tibet was published by Penguin India. She was raised in the Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal. Dhompa is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Villanova University.Phillip B. Williams is the author of Mutiny (Penguin Random House, 2021), and Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016), winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc., 2011) and Burn (YesYes Books, 2013).
Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy The Nation 2022-03-01 | Congressman Jamie Raskin joins The Nation’s Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and The Nation’s National Affairs Correspondent John Nichols to talk about his new book, the upcoming Jan. 6 hearing and his priorities for 2022.
Nation Conversation: Why Cori Bush Is Just Getting Started in Congress The Nation 2022-02-17 | Last summer, Rep. Cori Bush slept on the steps of the Capitol in order to convince the Biden administration to extend the federal eviction moratorium. The Missouri representative’s bold strategy worked. She got the White House to act, temporarily saving millions of Americans from the threat of losing shelter during a pandemic. More recently, she called on the House of Representatives to expel members of Congress who tried to overturn the will of the people by overthrowing the election.Halfway through an extraordinary first term, and gearing up for reelection, Bush is one of the most recognizable and unapologetically progressive members of the House. Part of the “Squad,” she believes deeply that her own personal upbringing, unusual if not unique in Congress, makes her a better and more responsive representative.Bush rose to prominence as a Black Lives Matter organizer in Ferguson, Missouri, where the movement started in the wake of Michael Brown’s killing by a white police officer. The daughter of a local alderman, Bush said it wasn’t until the protests that she considered running for public office.In 2020, Bush became the first Black woman to represent the state of Missouri when she was elected to Congress after two unsuccessful campaigns–first for Senate in 2016 and again in 2018 for Congress. She was sworn in three days before the Capitol was attacked by a pro-Trump mob.Watch this critical conversation with Rep. Bush and Elie Mystal, The Nation’s Justice Correspondent.Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
OppArt: Eden Thrashed The Nation 2022-02-04 | Disregarding the gifts of the natural world.Credits: Cristián Pietrapiana
OppArt: Dear Death The Nation 2021-11-29 | Sexual harassment impacts millions of women around the world.Credits: © Renee Goust.
Why We Made “Going for Broke” The Nation 2021-11-29 | One month after the successful launch of the podcast Going for Broke With Ray Suarez, The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation invite you to a special conversation on work, making ends meet, and the hardships people face in everyday life. Going for Broke host Ray Suarez joins guest Ann Larson, a cultural critic who works in a pandemic-era grocery store, as they talk about how they personally experienced what was broken about today’s work world and economy, and what they’ve come to understand from their experience and reporting on how to fix it. They’ll also explain why they chose to participate in this podcast, and what they hope audiences will get from the show.Got a question about work, or an experience you want to share? We’ll be taking audience questions and stories throughout the event. The panel will be moderated by Laura Flanders, host and executive producer of The Laura Flanders Show.Going for Broke is a new podcast about Americans on the edge. Famed journalist and broadcaster Ray Suarez talks to people who have lost jobs, lost their homes and sometimes lost the narrative thread of their lives. The economy isn’t working for the vast majority of us, and on Going for Broke, we hear from people who know these struggles first-hand, and the solutions they want to see become reality.For more information on the Going for Broke podcast, please visit thenation.com/content/going-for-broke
Dave Zirin: The Kaepernick Effect The Nation 2021-11-10 | Dave Zirin is one of America’s premier sports journalists and The Nation’s first sports editor. His new book, The Kaepernick Effect, is a riveting and inspiring collection of first-person stories detailing how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports and a sea change around the world. Offering a profound lesson in civic courage, the book highlights some extraordinary athletes who risked everything to help this country set the stage for the racial reckoning we now face. Watch Zirin, an engaging and dynamic speaker, and The Nation’s Editorial Director Katrina vanden Heuvel in a conversation about an inspiring national movement of citizen-athletes fighting for racial justice. And winning.Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Katha Pollitt & Amy Littlefield: The Future of Roe v. Wade The Nation 2021-11-10 | The Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow Texas’s law banning abortions after six weeks was a frontal attack on the constitutional rights of women and a very clear sign that the current court may disregard the longstanding precedent of Roe v. Wade. If Roe goes, abortion will immediately become illegal in 10 states. (As of November, Oklahoma will make it 11.) And in many ways it will be worse than before: During the entire century or more that abortion was illegal in the United States, hardly any women went to prison for ending their pregnancies. They were subpoenaed, humiliated and harassed, but they were not themselves put on trial. Unless there was a death or serious injury, few providers were arrested. This time around will be different. What is the future of Roe and how best can abortion rights be defended? Watch this urgent conversation with Katha Pollitt, The Nation’s "Subject to Debate” columnist well-known for her incisive, long-standing defense of reproductive rights and investigative reporter Amy Littlefield, The Nation’s new abortion access correspondent.Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
The Nation Poetry Reading Series: Ada Limón and Jos Charles The Nation 2021-11-10 | Hosted by Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar, this video, the first in the Nation Poetry Reading Series, highlights two of America’s most exciting young poets. Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón is also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. Jos Charles is the author of feeld (Milkweed Editions, 2018), a Pulitzer-finalist, and a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016) and A Year & other poems, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions (March 2022). Jos Charles has an MFA from the University of Arizona. She is currently a PhD student in English at UC Irvine and resides in Long Beach, CA.Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Gov. Jerry Brown: Governing in Crisis The Nation 2021-09-16 | While Governor of California, Jerry Brown established nation-leading targets to protect the environment and fight climate change. Thanks to his initiatives, by 2045 the state will generate 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources and achieve carbon neutrality. Brown also eliminated the state’s multi-billion dollar budget deficit, spearheading successful campaigns to provide billions in new funding for California’s schools and roads while expanding health coverage and enacting sweeping criminal justice, immigration, workers’ compensation, water, pension, education, housing and economic development reforms. Watch one of American’s leading statesmen in a wide-ranging conversation with Nationeditorial director Katrina vanden Heuvel on the climate crisis, continuing nuclear peril and the critical need for a more inclusive and democratic media.Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Ed Miliband: How to Fix Our World The Nation 2021-08-27 | For the past four years, former British Labour Party leader and current MP for Doncaster North Ed Miliband has been discovering and interviewing brilliant innovators around the world who are successfully tackling homelessness, Big Tech, and the climate crisis—transforming communities and pioneering global movements. From a citizens’ assembly in Mongolia to the UK’s largest walking and cycling network in Greater Manchester, from flexible working in Finland to the campaign for the first halal Nando’s in Cardiff, Go Big draws on the most imaginative and ambitious ideas to provide a vision for how to reimagine and remake the globe. As Miliband argues, only sweeping changes can remake societies to be fairer, more secure and more prosperous. Market-driven instability and the environmental crisis are profound challenges that require equally large solutions.Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Colombia’s Strategy to Quell Protesters? Shoot at Their Eyes The Nation 2021-08-27 | Human rights groups estimate as many as 200 protesters have suffered eye injuries after being targeted by Colombia’s notorious anti-riot police. Read the full story at thenation.com/article/world/colombia-police-blinding-protestersVideo by Manuel Ortiz.
Sen. Sherrod Brown: Making America Work for Workers The Nation 2021-08-27 | A lifelong Ohioan, Senator Sherrod Brown has spent his career fighting for the dignity of work. As one of the Senate’s most effective advocates of working people and labor rights, he has argued that to stop the business model of moving production overseas, we must raise labor standards in every country we trade with–and ensure they’re enforced. He’s also a student of the Senate, who has called for the immediate abolition of the filibuster, among other urgent reforms. In this conversation, hear the Senator’s thoughts on the Senate as an institution and his key concerns about the short and long-term state of our democracy in the wake of Covid-19 in a frank interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols.
OppArt: Celebrating Pride Month The Nation 2021-08-27 | A Dance to LGBTQ!Credit: Times Square, NYC. (Video by Peter Kuper)
John Nichols: The Power and Promise of Independent Media The Nation 2021-08-27 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Mónica Ramírez: Farmworkers Are Essential The Nation 2021-08-27 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Crisis Ignored: Coastal Landfills Meet Rising Seas The Nation 2021-07-26 | There are around 100,000 landfills in the US, around half in low-lying coastal areas—no one knows the real number because no agency has done a comprehensive survey of these toxic sites. As sea levels rise, many of these coastal landfills threaten to poison surrounding communities.To read the full story by Dave Lindorff, visit thenation.com/article/environment/coastal-landfill-climate-changeVideo by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com
The Sea Is Moving In on New Jerseys Biggest Landfill The Nation 2021-07-26 | The Middlesex County Sanitary Landfill is the largest operating dump in the state. As sea levels rise, this landfill could be inundated with flood water. Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com
Mt. Trashmore Went From a Dump to a Park—But For How Long? The Nation 2021-07-26 | In Virginia Beach, an old municipal waste dump was turned into a public park. It's a draw for residents and visitors, but all the waste hidden away in this mound won't stay buried as sea levels rise.Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com
A Wetland Sea Level Rise and One Million Tons of Toxic Ash The Nation 2021-07-26 | The Wheelabrator Saugus Incinerator is a waste disposal site right on the banks of the Rumney Marsh and Bearcreek Wildelife Refuge in eastern Massachusetts. With rising sea levels, the toxic ash this incinerator produces threatens these wilderness area and the surrounding communities.Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com
Bill Fletcher, Jr.: Internationalism Starts at Home The Nation 2021-07-06 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Gilber Achcar: Dont Ignore What Is Happening on the Ground The Nation 2021-07-06 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Phyllis Bennis: The Promise of Internationalism The Nation 2021-07-06 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Nadje Al-Ali: We Can Never Make Excuses for Gender-Based Violence The Nation 2021-07-06 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Sherrod Brown: Whose Side Are You On? The Nation 2021-07-06 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Sherrod Brown: How Conservatives Narrow the Definition of Infrastructure The Nation 2021-07-06 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Sherrod Brown: A Pro-Worker Government Improves Everyone’s Lives The Nation 2021-07-06 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Sherrod Brown: Making America Work for Workers The Nation 2021-07-06 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Mónica Ramírez: Community Gives Me Hope The Nation 2021-06-24 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Mónica Ramírez: Farmworkers Deserve the Same Protections and Benefits as Other Workers The Nation 2021-06-24 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Wallace Shawn: Making Room for Art The Nation 2021-06-24 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
Daniel Ellsberg: Whistle-Blowing as a Moral Mission The Nation 2021-06-24 | Check out upcoming Nation Events: thenation.com/eventsSubscribe to The Nation at a discounted rate: subscribe.thenation.comSupport our independent journalism: thenation.com/donate-website
