The GOP’s 2022 Strategy: Voter Suppression or Bust
Republicans have passed a spate of electoral repression laws across the country. (Steve Heap / Shutterstock) Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for just … Read more
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We Need a Racial Reckoning to Save Democracy
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s “Nkyinkim” sculpture, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, at the entrance to the National Monument for Peace … Read more
How Progressive District Attorneys Are Leading the Charge to Fix Our Broken Justice System
The Black Lives Matter demonstrations last year – the most widespread protest movement in American history– have led to concrete action by national leaders to … Read more
Letters From the February 8/15, 2021, Issue
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The Votes of Black Americans Should Count Twice
Voters will fill out their ballot papers via email in October 2020 at the Orange County Electoral Office in Orlando, Florida. (Paul Hennessy / NurPhoto … Read more
Black People Repudiated Trump Like He Was a Piece of Used Gum
Protesters gather outside the Philadelphia Convention Center three days after the presidential election is over as they await the tabulation results in Philadelphia on Friday, … Read more
In Key Cities, Activists Are Mobilizing Black Voters Biden Isn’t
Wendy Caldwell-Liddell, founder of Mobilize Detroit, at the Rosa Parks Transit Center in downtown Detroit on October 1. (Colin Kinniburgh) Take part in the nation … Read more
For Black Americans, Being Voters Is Who We Are
Ida Mingo, fourth from left, and family. (Courtesy of the author) Take part in the nation festival Take part in the nation Festival for four … Read more
Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents
Illustration by Tim Robinson. In the famously long, hot summer of 1968, when Columbia University fell apart like the rest of America, historian Richard Hofstadter … Read more
American History Is Getting Whitewashed, Again
People attending the Dome Rally on NAACP’s King Day in South Carolina sit at the base of the statue to honor avowed racist Benjamin Tillman … Read more
