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Our February 2026 issue is here! Featuring @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the "secretary of war," @colestangler.bsky.social on a working class soccer team in France, Vivian Gornick on John Updike's letters, and more! Subscribe to read: subscriptions.thenation.com.
She is a determined propagandist who seeks to distort the truth, undermine investigations, and divide Americans. It's a compelling argument for her removal.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Like La Guardia, Zohran Mamdani won by building a multiethnic coalition of liberals and radicals and gained the support of most unions and he has ambitious plans to provide low-cost housing and to raise wages for the many and taxes for the wealthy few.
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Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York
How the popular mayor and a popular front of radicals and reformers transformed New York City
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February 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Drag is inextricable from the city’s anti-fascist future.
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Drag Can Save a Life in New York City—if People Show Up
Black and trans drag performers are crowdfunding to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social is at the forefront of his state's resistance to Trump and ICE. In this exclusive piece for The Nation, he explains why it's so important to fight back.
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Keith Ellison: Trump Hates Minnesotans Because We Love Each Other
The president has gone after us because of who we are and what we value. We have an obligation to resist.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
New York City has "some of the best Black trans drag performers in the world,” says Klondyke, a Black drag artist and sideshow performer. “Why are they starving?"
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Drag Can Save a Life in New York City—if People Show Up
Black and trans drag performers are crowdfunding to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
“You shouldn't wait until somebody is on Drag Race to show your support,” says Afrosephone. “The one thing that will keep us performing, the one thing that will keep us afloat, is if you show up.”
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Drag Can Save a Life in New York City—if People Show Up
Black and trans drag performers are crowdfunding to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
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February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"Injectors might not be purposefully lying, but there’s little data demonstrating that fillers ever entirely dissolve, and just as little information on how they move around in the body over a decade and beyond."
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February 8, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The gaming industry’s promise of “skin in the game” turns out to be less of a fun magnifier than a funhouse mirror: it fundamentally distorts the experience it promised to simply amplify.
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How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game
The Super Bowl will showcase the lords of legalized betting, even as they’ve already colonized every other reach of human experience.
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February 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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From Epstein to Bezos, the ruling class is rotten to the core. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
From Epstein to Bezos, the Ruling Class Is Rotten to the Core
Let this week be yet another reminder that plutocrats are a threat to democracy, not its saviors.
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February 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Between 2010 and 2019, the number of fillers injected into women’s faces in the United States more than doubled.
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February 8, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Grigory Yavlinsky warns that the postwar order is collapsing and that human life is no longer the organizing principle of global politics.
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“We Are All Passengers on the Titanic”
An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky.
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February 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
By relentlessly “gamifying” human experience, legalized gambling is poised to make even the most personal and idiosyncratic features of our lives fodder for transactional prognosticating.
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How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game
The Super Bowl will showcase the lords of legalized betting, even as they’ve already colonized every other reach of human experience.
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February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
"The Sweet Dove Died" captures Barbara Pym’s ambivalent reflections on a cultural landscape that she both profited from and yet clearly saw through.
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February 7, 2026 at 8:44 PM
"Injectors might not be purposefully lying, but there’s little data demonstrating that fillers ever entirely dissolve, and just as little information on how they move around in the body over a decade and beyond."
https://bit.ly/4tnAV3R
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February 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Between 2010 and 2019, the number of fillers injected into women’s faces in the United States more than doubled.
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February 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
As with Pym’s other novels, "The Sweet Dove Died" renders with wry humor the foibles and contradictions of a culture of manners.
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February 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM
In the novelist’s work, she mocks English culture’s nostalgia, revealing what lies beneath the country's obsession with its heritage.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Increasingly, on one issue after the next, Trump 2.0 is dispensing with the niceties of the rule of law, and reaching towards a Big Brother Is Watching You vision of governance.
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Trump’s Dictatorial Mania Is Increasing—but So Is the Public’s Fury
Trump is retreating into a fantasy world in which he remains an all-conquering strongman. Yet the American people are rejecting him over and over again.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
When the Doomsday Clock reads 85 seconds to midnight, nuclear disarmament cannot remain a concern only for those nearing the end of their lives.
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Speaking Out on the Insanity of Nuclear Weapons
At a time when nuclear dangers are not just rising, but multiplying, we need all hands on deck in sounding the alarm and advocating for abolition of nuclear weapons.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Wannabe vigilantes are taking inspiration from the bogus fraud allegations in Minnesota and surveilling childcare providers around the country:
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Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance
In response to bogus allegations of fraud in Minnesota, strangers are filming them, knocking on their doors, demanding to be let in. It's scaring parents and costing providers.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Those of us who are not billionaires need to create strong guardrails to limit the power of plutocrats. The alternative is to live at the mercy of Jeffrey Epstein and his friends.
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From Epstein to Bezos, the Ruling Class Is Rotten to the Core
Let this week be yet another reminder that plutocrats are a threat to democracy, not its saviors.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
The gaming industry’s promise of “skin in the game” turns out to be less of a fun magnifier than a funhouse mirror: it fundamentally distorts the experience it promised to simply amplify.
https://bit.ly/4kobifd
How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game
The Super Bowl will showcase the lords of legalized betting, even as they’ve already colonized every other reach of human experience.
bit.ly
February 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
From Epstein to Bezos, the ruling class is rotten to the core.
https://bit.ly/4awNC53
From Epstein to Bezos, the Ruling Class Is Rotten to the Core
Let this week be yet another reminder that plutocrats are a threat to democracy, not its saviors.
bit.ly
February 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Grigory Yavlinsky warns that the postwar order is collapsing and that human life is no longer the organizing principle of global politics.
https://bit.ly/4ahwNdc
“We Are All Passengers on the Titanic”
An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky.
bit.ly
February 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Veterans of power warn that nuclear weapons must be eliminated, yet today’s leaders remain silent while the arms race accelerates.
https://bit.ly/3O0CwwA
February 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM