The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

I was working in El Salvador when President Nayib Bukele declared a state of exception. In 2022, after a sudden spike in homicides, he suspended due process and sent soldiers into neighborhoods.

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to upend the Department of Education as it currently functions. It plans to lay off at least half of the department's ...

AI is disrupting entry-level work, and graduates constitute a growing share of the long-term unemployed. But the degree's value still holds.

Joe Biden’s win in 2020 offered a reprieve, but the hope was short-lived. Trump’s 2024 comeback, coupled with his loyalists in Congress, has Democrats feeling battered, leaderless, feckless, and ...

We speak to Bishop William J. Barber II about conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk’s killing and the right-wing weaponization of his death. Barber says outrage over political violence should ...