11+ hour, 33+ min ago  (179+ words) Alejandro Cartagena, Rivers of Power #71, from the series Rivers of Power, 201016 Caroline Tracey is the author of Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History (W.W. Norton, 2026). She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she works as a reporter for the Border Chronicle. In Rehab,…...

11+ hour, 33+ min ago  (295+ words) The IOC's new anti-trans testing regime revives some of the most discredited and discriminatory policies in the history of the games. IOC president Kirsty Coventry speaks during the Olympic opening ceremony at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, on February…...

11+ hour, 33+ min ago  (664+ words) Answer: The presence of New York's first Muslim mayor. Zohran Mamdani on March 31, 2026. But that was over 30 years ago, and although our family eventually developed its own set of rituals for the holiday'Sephardi lamb instead of Ashkenazi brisket, abridged versions…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (24+ words) The changing morals of OpenAI's CEO. New to The Nation? Subscribe Check out all installments in the OppArt series. Latest from the nation...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (282+ words) In Rehab, Shoshana Walter investigates the corruption and abuse rife in the business of drug rehabilitation. A billboard in St. Paul, Minnesota, 2025. So what happens when the treatment itself is rotten'when it exploits the most vulnerable for profit and manages…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (588+ words) Alaska's last great race has struggled to keep up its finances and increase participation. Now, a $300,000 gift from an "expedition musher" promises to transform the event. Kjell Inge R'kke mushes his dog team across the Bering Sea. But Holmes wasn't…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (333+ words) In the beginning, the rock star was an alluring figure, and a subversive one. Teenagers screamed at him; their parents resented him. No one thought about him. "Anton is a cross / between a Russian / spy, a gigolo, a priest / and…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (269+ words) Why do we misunderstand one of modernism's great writers? No one understands Gertrude Stein. For this, we should all give thanks. It is almost a clich" to emphasize her work's difficulty, but her writing remains imposing, both due to its…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (191+ words) Zhang Yueran's novel Women, Seated'a take on the upstairs, downstairs drama'examines class conflict among the Chinese upper crust and the people who wait on them. A woman cleans the street near the Drum Tower in Beijing, 2025. Dave Zirin and Jules…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (796+ words) Manuel Mujica Lainez's historical novel, a strange biography of a 16th-century duke, leaves the reader wondering if human nature can ever change. "One must put himself in the period," writes Pier Francesco Orsini, the 16th-century Italian duke and narrator of…...