It’s Going to Be All Comely

We can no longer support down

We now confront a 2nd Trump presidency.

There’s no longer a moment to lose. We must harness our fears, our anxiety, and yes, our enrage, to withstand the terrible policies Donald Trump will unleash on our country. We rededicate ourselves to our role as journalists and writers of principle and judgment of right and unsuitable.

This day, we moreover steel ourselves for the struggle forward. This would possibly maybe maybe presumably presumably quiz a mettlesome spirit, an knowledgeable mind, real looking diagnosis, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Challenge 2025, a miles-factual supreme court, political authoritarianism, rising inequality and describe homelessness, a looming climate disaster, and conflicts out of the country. The Nation will present and propose, nurture investigative reporting, and stand collectively as a community to again hope and possibility alive. The Nation’s work will proceed—as it has in apt and no longer-so-apt instances—to realize replacement strategies and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to extra cohesion in a nation divided.

Armed with a noteworthy 160 years of mettlesome, self sustaining journalism, our mandate on the novel time remains the identical as when abolitionists first based The Nation—to uphold the guidelines of democracy and freedom, again as a beacon thru the darkest days of resistance, and to study and struggle for a brighter future.

The day is shaded, the forces arrayed are tenacious, however because the unhurried Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! That is precisely the time when artists poke to work. There isn’t any longer any such thing as a time for despair, no plight for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for alarm. We discuss, we write, we keep language. That is how civilizations heal.”

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Onwards,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation