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Aug 21, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Kaniela Ing |Brad Swanson |Lisa M. Corrigan |Liz Farkas
Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i—In the heart of this place, where the hum of life once vibrated, a somber scene unfolds: Dozens of cadaver dogs painstakingly search for our loved ones amids charred remnants. As I stand with survivors, the air is laden with not just the stench of burnt memories but also the weight of systemic neglect.
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Aug 19, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Liz Farkas |Matthew Phelan |Chris Lehmann |Lisa M. Corrigan
This article appears in the September 4/11, 2023 issue. The Right to Be Heard1 Re “The Right to Live,” by Sara Luterman [June 12/19]: I am very glad that The Nation is covering the disability rights movement’s long-standing opposition to “medical aid in dying,” especially its position that systemic pressures often negate an autonomous choice to die.
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Aug 19, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins |Liz Farkas |Matthew Phelan |Lisa M. Corrigan
This article appears in the September 4/11, 2023 issue. The idea of a “basic income,” a stipend that a government provides its citizens to ensure their livelihood, is an old one, often traced back to ancient Rome and Publius Clodius Pulcher’s establishment of a regular allotment of free grain for Roman citizens.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jeet Heer |Liz Farkas |Matthew Phelan |Lisa M. Corrigan
Republicans sometimes give the impression that they are obsessed with punishing Joe Biden for the unforgiveable sin of being a loving father. In the 2020 presidential race, the Trump re-election campaign and right-wing media heavily bet that they could score big by playing up the many scandals surrounding Biden’s son Hunter. But by elevating reports of Hunter Biden’s misdeeds, the right also highlighted evidence that the senior Biden was motivated by parental devotion.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Nadezhda Azhgikhina |Lisa M. Corrigan |Michael Massing |Chris Lehmann
Moscow, Russia—I will never forget the evening after the August coup in Moscow. The people around the White House, who spent three days in the “living ring” of defenders of the young Russian democracy, were beautiful. Never since have I seen so many soulful people together. They were very different people, students, aspiring entrepreneurs, workers, nurses, professors, Muscovites and those who came from other regions of the country. Most of them were young.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Sarang Shidore |Lisa M. Corrigan |Michael Massing |Chris Lehmann
On August 22, South Africa will host the next BRICS summit—bringing together leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—at a time of acute tensions between the United States and its great power rivals China and Russia. But another context for the meeting is the increased salience of the Global South, most sharply revealed by the nuanced reactions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to the Ukraine war.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Chris Lehmann |Dave Zirin |Jeet Heer |Lisa M. Corrigan
Society / In a series of recent essays, the New York Times columnist has pronounced all social ills the result of deficient moral fiber among individuals. Ad PolicyTake heed, American reprobates! Your self-appointed spiritual doctor, David Brooks, is diagnosing your faults, sins, and self-serving moral evasions, and his findings are grim.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Lisa M. Corrigan |Bill McKibben |Amanda Moore
West Virginia University is being gutted, and it’s a preview for what’s in store for higher education. Ad PolicyLast week, West Virginia University (WVU) announced a plan to raze some of its core programs. The public land-grant university intends to eliminate 9 percent of its majors (32 programs total), all of its foreign language programs, and 16 percent of its full-time faculty members (169 in total).
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
msn.com | Lisa M. Corrigan
MSN Article RSS West Virginia University is being gutted, and it’s a preview for what’s in store for higher education. Last week, West Virginia University (WVU) announced a plan to raze some of its core programs. The public land-grant university intends to eliminate 9 percent of its majors (32 programs total), all of its foreign language programs, and 7 percent of its full-time faculty members (169 in total).
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Joan Walsh |Liz Farkas |Matthew Phelan |Lisa M. Corrigan
I am not sitting at my desk drinking from a Judge Tanya Chutkan coffee mug while a votive candle to special counsel Jack Smith burns on my coffee table. I own neither; it’s not my way.* But I don’t judge anyone who is savoring the sight of justice officials trying to bring twice-impeached Donald Trump to justice, and I don’t begrudge their buying a little bit of swag to celebrate. Politico magazine writer Michael Schaeffer does.
