Nick Martin

@nicka_martin

Bright young aspiring oil executives have more options than people trapped in a town with no jobs.

We need a country that doesn’t make debt accumulation the cost of entry into a decent life.

America needed a bigger boat. The latest stimulus package tosses a pair of arm floaties.

If there is a silver lining to 2020, it’s the reminder that even the toughest fights in Indian Country can have a happy ending.

The basis of all human life is now officially on the market. Call it the No Future futures index.

In response to calls for more regulation, Cherie Berry wrote that Covid-19 was not “proven likely to cause death or serious physical harm from the perspective of an occupational hazard.”

There is no way to separate the emergencies of the pandemic from the preexisting structural conditions forged by America’s legacy of broken trust responsibilities.

The end of the year is a month away, and remaining relief programs are expiring. We are desperately unprepared for what waits on the other side.

A state lawsuit against the Shinnecock Indian Nation tells a much bigger story about the forces stacked against Native self-determination.

The task force adviser is there to incite the president’s base and facilitate the slow, deadly violence of our failed federal response to the pandemic.

The Republican governor has fueled South Dakota’s pandemic spiral, and she’s trying to take tribal nations down with her.

The GOP blocks the stimulus. Nonessential businesses reopen and people go back to work because they need money. Cases surge. People die.

The Democratic Party can’t be mired in intraparty fights about what’s “too far left.” Life as we know it is at stake.

Democrats who say their conservative colleagues confess their anti-Trump feelings in private have a choice: Burn your sources or stay complicit in the lie.

Trump’s time in office was a group effort. Here’s a taxonomy of the grifters, sycophants, and opportunists who made it all possible for the last four years.

Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.

Native voters continue to be othered by the media, but the election results prove their vote has never been stronger.

Searching for hope and finding more reasons for despair in my home state

All summer, police gave far-right demonstrators a long leash while cracking down on left-leaning protesters. Why would this week be any different?

Can the current ideological split among Native members of Congress—and electoral hopefuls—lead to anything like a unified front on issues impacting Indian Country?