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Farah Jasmine Griffin’s memoir Read Until You Understand doubles as a syllabus, taking readers on a personal tour through Black intellectual his…
Andreas Malm thinks climate politics needs to reject pacifism for sabotage.
Jyoti Thottam's Sisters of Mokama, tells the story of missionaries in the Indian state of Bihar, who bore witness to the tumultuous era, offerin…
The Danish novelist and poet was a rare writer—one who shunned sentiment but not empathy in her stories.
Caroline Elkins’s new history of the British Empire is a damning account of its violent crimes against its subjects.
Listening to voices of the Central and East European left.
Reporter Jorge Nieto talks to The Nation after five journalists were assassinated in just six weeks.
In Becoming an Abolitionist, Derecka Purnell examines how one cannot separate putting an end to policing from broader struggles for freedom.
And it hasn’t had this kind of opportunity for global expansion since fascism’s heyday in the 1930s.
Hélène Landemore’s new book argues that we need a new, more inclusive system of governance that is less elitist and more participatory to cure w…
The American far right has transformed politics in unprecedented ways. Can this be reversed?
As in previous pandemics, a rise in xenophobic, nationalistic, and militaristic language has returned amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Esther Honig is a journalist whose work focuses on the intersections of agriculture and immigration. A fluent Spanish speaker, Honig travels to…
As soon as they arrived, the Black and brown leftists of Congress became targets of right-wing terror groups.
If the UK sends him back to America, nobody should feel safe calling authority to account or scrutinizing those who hide behind the veil of powe…
A.M. Gittlitz, the author of a new book on J. Posadas, explains the socialist alien memes.
The coronavirus threw their lives into disarray. Months in, their futures are still uncertain.
Heroism and selflessness, the terror of loneliness amid quarantine… and Donald Trump’s grotesque and life-threatening narcissism.