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Our January issue—featuring a package on Los Angeles—is here! Authors within include Bill Gallegos, Sachi Mulkey and Rebecca McCarthy with @grist.org, Jess Bergman, Howard French, and more. www.thenation.com/issue/januar...
The future of working-class politics runs through immigrant communities and labor alliances, write Peter Olney and David Bacon. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
A Movement-Building Strategy for All Workers
Why we need a freedom agenda.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The future of working-class politics runs through immigrant communities and labor alliances, write Peter Olney and David Bacon. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Thanks to @thenation.com for reposting the transcript of the 60 Minutes report on CECOT (which did air in Canada) and @warren.senate.gov for calling upon journalists to circulate it. A truly important read on the Trump Admin’s involvement in human rights abuses.
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Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See
A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thanks to @thenation.com for reposting the transcript of the 60 Minutes report on CECOT (which did air in Canada) and @warren.senate.gov for calling upon journalists to circulate it. A truly important read on the Trump Admin’s involvement in human rights abuses.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
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Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth
Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
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The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See
A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The 60 Minutes episode about CECOT was not only worth running, it was an exceptionally powerful work of journalism that made clear the US government has embraced torture. You can read the transcript here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri died on December 24. He made films about occupation—through the eyes of the occupied. Read Rania Abouzeid's beautiful profile on him from 2024. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Occupied Will Also Write History
Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri was censored for daring to tell the story of occupation in Jenin, Jenin. Now, he is trying again with a new documentary.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Palestinian filmmaker Mohammad Bakri died on December 24. He made films about occupation—through the eyes of the occupied. Read Rania Abouzeid's beautiful profile on him from 2024. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Soviet Union abolished itself on this day in 1991. In an obituary for “the late U.S.S.R.,” our editors wrote, “The wreckage we now behold was not historically determined.… Gorbachev had options, he made choices.” www.thenation.com/article/arch...
December 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Soviet Union abolished itself on this day in 1991. In an obituary for “the late U.S.S.R.,” our editors wrote, “The wreckage we now behold was not historically determined.… Gorbachev had options, he made choices.” www.thenation.com/article/arch...
The future of working-class politics runs through immigrant communities and labor alliances, write Peter Olney and David Bacon. www.thenation.com/article/poli... With moving images from David Bacon.
December 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The future of working-class politics runs through immigrant communities and labor alliances, write Peter Olney and David Bacon. www.thenation.com/article/poli... With moving images from David Bacon.
Read the "60 Minutes" segment on the CECOT prison in El Salvador. In the interest of preserving the public record in this authoritarian moment, this transcript is now a historical document. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See
A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.
www.thenation.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Read the "60 Minutes" segment on the CECOT prison in El Salvador. In the interest of preserving the public record in this authoritarian moment, this transcript is now a historical document. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The border guards of sex are the enemies of human liberation
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The UK’s Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court’s attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The border guards of sex are the enemies of human liberation
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In the 60 Minutes controversy, Weiss is likely doing what she always does: producing a line of propaganda masquerading as news coverage that serves the interest of her patrons–in this case, David Ellison, whose interests are served by protecting Donald Trump.
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Bari Weiss's Counter-Journalistic Crusade Targets “60 Minutes”
The new editor in chief at CBS News has shown she's not merely stupendously unqualified--she's ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In the 60 Minutes controversy, Weiss is likely doing what she always does: producing a line of propaganda masquerading as news coverage that serves the interest of her patrons–in this case, David Ellison, whose interests are served by protecting Donald Trump.
https://bit.ly/45bGW9m
https://bit.ly/45bGW9m
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>>> The new editor in chief at CBS News has shown she’s not merely stupendously unqualified—she’s ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Bari Weiss’s Counter-Journalistic Crusade Targets “60 Minutes”
The new editor in chief at CBS News has shown she’s not merely stupendously unqualified—she’s ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism.
www.thenation.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
>>> The new editor in chief at CBS News has shown she’s not merely stupendously unqualified—she’s ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
John Wilson made Black life visible in a world determined not to look. Margaret Spillane takes a look at his Met show. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
John Wilson at the Met
Drawing from the depths.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
John Wilson made Black life visible in a world determined not to look. Margaret Spillane takes a look at his Met show. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Record profits for Walmart, and poverty wages for its workforce. Michael Massing takes a look at Walmart as its CEO retires. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
Walmart Worship
Journalists adore the CEO of the world’s largest retailer.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Record profits for Walmart, and poverty wages for its workforce. Michael Massing takes a look at Walmart as its CEO retires. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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Bill Moyers was one of my heroes. He and these others are very much missed. Their words can and will be reread for many years to come.
A tribute by Richard Kreitner to the beautiful writers, influential editors, and committed activists The Nation family lost this year—from Jules Feiffer to Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, and Peter and Cora Weiss. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
In Memoriam: Beautiful Writers, Influential Editors, Committed Activists
A tribute to Nation family we lost this year—from Jules Feiffer to Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, and Peter and Cora Weiss
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December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Bill Moyers was one of my heroes. He and these others are very much missed. Their words can and will be reread for many years to come.
Blood Orange's Dev Hynes moves between grief and joy in "Essex Honey," his most personal album yet, writes @bijan.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Blood Orange’s Sonic Experiments
Dev Hynes moves between grief and joy in Essex Honey, his most personal album yet.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Blood Orange's Dev Hynes moves between grief and joy in "Essex Honey," his most personal album yet, writes @bijan.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
This year The Nation lost a number of beloved contributors—Jules Feiffer, Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, Peter and Cora Weiss. Their words, honored here by Richard Kreitner, are testimony to the struggle for decency, democracy, liberty, and equality. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
In Memoriam: Beautiful Writers, Influential Editors, Committed Activists
A tribute to Nation family we lost this year—from Jules Feiffer to Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, and Peter and Cora Weiss
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December 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This year The Nation lost a number of beloved contributors—Jules Feiffer, Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, Peter and Cora Weiss. Their words, honored here by Richard Kreitner, are testimony to the struggle for decency, democracy, liberty, and equality. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The lesson of US imperial adventurism in Latin America is unmistakable, writes Eric Ross. When Washington interferes in other nations, the outcome is never stability or democracy but their absolute negation. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Brace Yourselves for Trump’s New Monroe Doctrine
Trump's latest exploits in Latin America are just the latest expression of a bloody ideological project to entrench US power and protect the profits of Western multinationals.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The lesson of US imperial adventurism in Latin America is unmistakable, writes Eric Ross. When Washington interferes in other nations, the outcome is never stability or democracy but their absolute negation. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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A tribute by Richard Kreitner to the beautiful writers, influential editors, and committed activists The Nation family lost this year—from Jules Feiffer to Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, and Peter and Cora Weiss. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
In Memoriam: Beautiful Writers, Influential Editors, Committed Activists
A tribute to Nation family we lost this year—from Jules Feiffer to Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, and Peter and Cora Weiss
www.thenation.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A tribute by Richard Kreitner to the beautiful writers, influential editors, and committed activists The Nation family lost this year—from Jules Feiffer to Joshua Clover, Elizabeth Pochoda, Bill Moyers, and Peter and Cora Weiss. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One of the best-kept secrets about DEI is that it helps men—that includes white men—get into college, writes @kaliholloway.bsky.social. With DEI in Trump’s crosshairs, “gender balancing” in college admissions may no longer be allowed. thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade Is Going to Hit White Men, Too
Under the Trump administration’s anti-DEI directives, colleges would be forced to abandon gender balancing, disadvantaging men.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
One of the best-kept secrets about DEI is that it helps men—that includes white men—get into college, writes @kaliholloway.bsky.social. With DEI in Trump’s crosshairs, “gender balancing” in college admissions may no longer be allowed. thenation.com/article/soci...
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Thrilled to be featured in the January 2026 issue of @thenation.com with my colleague David Landes! I argue “no” & draw attention to how the loneliness crisis is a symptom of late-stage capitalism & a society unable to support its youth. I also share insights on digital & youth culture in Japan. 📱
For our latest Debate, we asked David Landes and Kimberly Hassel, "Are cell phones to blame for the youth loneliness epidemic?"
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Are Cell Phones to Blame for the Youth Loneliness Epidemic?
David Landes argues that cell phones represent an isolated life whereas Kimberly Hassel blames the loneliness crisis on a society unable to support or protect its youth.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thrilled to be featured in the January 2026 issue of @thenation.com with my colleague David Landes! I argue “no” & draw attention to how the loneliness crisis is a symptom of late-stage capitalism & a society unable to support its youth. I also share insights on digital & youth culture in Japan. 📱
In this Q&A, Sophie Lucido Johnson tells Regina Mahone about the similarities between bees and humans, why jealousy is useful, and the role of kin while living under a tyrant. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why We Need Kin: A Conversation With Sophie Lucido Johnson
The author and cartoonist explains why we should dismantle the nuclear family and build something bigger.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In this Q&A, Sophie Lucido Johnson tells Regina Mahone about the similarities between bees and humans, why jealousy is useful, and the role of kin while living under a tyrant. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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"Your Name Here asks how literature should respond to a reality that is equal parts vapid and violent, where the celebration of mediocrity is correlated with an utter disregard for human life." Jess Bergman in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel
Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Your Name Here asks how literature should respond to a reality that is equal parts vapid and violent, where the celebration of mediocrity is correlated with an utter disregard for human life." Jess Bergman in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Our January issue—featuring a package on Los Angeles—is here! Authors within include Bill Gallegos, Sachi Mulkey and Rebecca McCarthy with @grist.org, Jess Bergman, Howard French, and more. www.thenation.com/issue/januar...
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Our January issue—featuring a package on Los Angeles—is here! Authors within include Bill Gallegos, Sachi Mulkey and Rebecca McCarthy with @grist.org, Jess Bergman, Howard French, and more. www.thenation.com/issue/januar...
Trump’s latest exploits in Latin America are just the latest expression of a bloody ideological project to entrench US power and protect the profits of Western multinationals, writes Eric Ross. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Brace Yourselves for Trump’s New Monroe Doctrine
Trump's latest exploits in Latin America are just the latest expression of a bloody ideological project to entrench US power and protect the profits of Western multinationals.
www.thenation.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump’s latest exploits in Latin America are just the latest expression of a bloody ideological project to entrench US power and protect the profits of Western multinationals, writes Eric Ross. www.thenation.com/article/worl...