We can’t again down
We now confront a second Trump presidency.
There’s not a second to lose. We should harness our fears, our grief, and sure, our anger, to withstand the harmful insurance policies Donald Trump will unleash on our nation. We rededicate ourselves to our position as journalists and writers of precept and conscience.
Immediately, we additionally metal ourselves for the struggle forward. It should demand a fearless spirit, an knowledgeable thoughts, smart evaluation, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Undertaking 2025, a far-right supreme court docket, political authoritarianism, growing inequality and document homelessness, a looming local weather disaster, and conflicts overseas. The Nation will expose and suggest, nurture investigative reporting, and stand collectively as a group to maintain hope and risk alive. The Nation’s work will proceed—because it has in good and not-so-good instances—to develop various concepts and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to additional solidarity in a nation divided.
Armed with a exceptional 160 years of daring, unbiased journalism, our mandate as we speak stays the identical as when abolitionists first based The Nation—to uphold the ideas of democracy and freedom, function a beacon via the darkest days of resistance, and to ascertain and battle for a brighter future.
The day is darkish, the forces arrayed are tenacious, however because the late Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! That is exactly the time when artists go to work. There is no such thing as a time for despair, no place for self-pity, no want for silence, no room for concern. We converse, we write, we do language. That’s how civilizations heal.”
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Onwards,
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Writer, The Nation
