Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? America’s first Gilded Age didn’t merely end. Progressives had to fight ...

In politics as in medicine, excessively mild remedies are typically based on overly placid diagnoses. Look, for example, at the highly esteemed Columbia University historian Eric Foner’s recent letter ...

I’ve been writing about what we politely call “inequality” since the mid-1990s, but one day about ten years ago, when I was traveling the country lecturing about the toxic curlicues of right-wing ...

In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy that goes back to the very founding of the United States. The extreme ...

The promotional build up to Obama’s January 12, 2016 State of the Union speech promised something completely different than his previous performances. Yet, on the day, it seemed completely the same, ...

Here’s a meaty article by the conservative professor James Kurth, discussing the foreign policy implications of our plutocratic governing order. Excerpts: It is obvious that the 1990s was a decisive ...