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Our December issue—and our third to have @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social grace the cover—is here. This one has @thomasbirm.bsky.social with an investigation into Israel's big real estate mogul, Lovia Gyarkye on Luca Guadagnino’s new campus film, Jonathan Lethem on Franz Kafka and his dog, and much more.
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“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
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Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
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Two Burbanks are better than one! My dad and I cobylined on this father-daughter collab at @thenation.com after seeing how Katie Wilson’s daycare “scandal” just didn’t stick because it only made her more relatable to millennials and Gen Z voters
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Establishment Democrats Tried to Derail Katie Wilson’s Campaign—and Failed
The precariat rose up, with passion, desire for change, and votes.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Two Burbanks are better than one! My dad and I cobylined on this father-daughter collab at @thenation.com after seeing how Katie Wilson’s daycare “scandal” just didn’t stick because it only made her more relatable to millennials and Gen Z voters
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Reporting from Belem, Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org writes about Indigenous protesters who pushed their way into the main entrance of COP30's "Blue Zone," where Indigenous voices have been largely excluded.
Indigenous Activists to COP30: “We Will Fight to the Death”
Indigenous people lead COP30 protests against agribusinesses that “want to take everything.”
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Reporting from Belem, Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org writes about Indigenous protesters who pushed their way into the main entrance of COP30's "Blue Zone," where Indigenous voices have been largely excluded.
Much happens between writing and editing of crosswords.
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The Hidden Politics of the Crossword Puzzle
Take it from me: A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Much happens between writing and editing of crosswords.
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Under no circumstances do you have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene, but her feud with Trump is fun. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Donald Trump Is Losing Control of MAGA
His surrender on the Epstein files—and his attack on Marjorie Taylor Greene—proves it.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Under no circumstances do you have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene, but her feud with Trump is fun. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Every year, tens of thousands of children are taken from their families because their parents can't afford decent housing. Most child welfare agencies do virtually nothing to help them even as the affordable housing crisis worsens. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”
All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Every year, tens of thousands of children are taken from their families because their parents can't afford decent housing. Most child welfare agencies do virtually nothing to help them even as the affordable housing crisis worsens. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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This recent movement of African Americans to México post-Trump is part of a longer history: enslaved people self-emancipating across the border in the 1840s and 50s to WH Ellis in the 1890s to many Black artists and intellectuals in the early twentieth century.
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“We Have Breath Again”: Black Americans on Leaving the US for Mexico
The Americans recently relocating to San Miguel de Allende are a new kind of “expat,” a word they refuse to call themselves.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This recent movement of African Americans to México post-Trump is part of a longer history: enslaved people self-emancipating across the border in the 1840s and 50s to WH Ellis in the 1890s to many Black artists and intellectuals in the early twentieth century.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Here's @joanwalsh.bsky.social bringing together everything important about the Epstein scandal, Congress, and Trump right now. An excellent synthesis. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing
And Republicans are running scared.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Here's @joanwalsh.bsky.social bringing together everything important about the Epstein scandal, Congress, and Trump right now. An excellent synthesis. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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thanks to @thenation.com for publishing this excerpt of my book; grateful to be edited by the wonderful @apockros.bsky.social
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The Hidden Politics of the Crossword Puzzle
Take it from me: A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
thanks to @thenation.com for publishing this excerpt of my book; grateful to be edited by the wonderful @apockros.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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December 2025 Issue
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November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Want a different perspective from the US ? Try @thenation.com and @elienyc.bsky.social, @amandalitman.bsky.social, @chrislehmann.bsky.social, @davidklion.bsky.social and other independent journalists.
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‘Trump has seemed like Teflon until now, but this scandal is sticking.’
Great read from @joanwalsh.bsky.social
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Great read from @joanwalsh.bsky.social
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The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing
And Republicans are running scared.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
‘Trump has seemed like Teflon until now, but this scandal is sticking.’
Great read from @joanwalsh.bsky.social
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www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Great read from @joanwalsh.bsky.social
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump and the GOP seek to end affordable healthcare and food assistance for tens of millions of Americans. The public doesn't support it and also opposes most other MAGA priorities. My Nation column on Trump's growing unpopularity. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump’s Trashing of Liberty and Human Worth
The Republican Party has deliberately attempted to render healthcare unaffordable and deprive families of the ability to put food on the table.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Trump and the GOP seek to end affordable healthcare and food assistance for tens of millions of Americans. The public doesn't support it and also opposes most other MAGA priorities. My Nation column on Trump's growing unpopularity. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
www.thenation.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The left does not have enough no civic-engagement infrastructure. We connects the dots between the No Kings marches and the nuts-and-bolts local engagement that must happen every other day in order to sustain a win.
The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure
We need to look not at what it will take to win the next election, but what it'll take to win the next 10 elections.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The left does not have enough no civic-engagement infrastructure. We connects the dots between the No Kings marches and the nuts-and-bolts local engagement that must happen every other day in order to sustain a win.
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"Bachmann was a compulsive crosser of national if not linguistic borders... Even escaping her own dialect of Austrian German proved difficult. In neither Rome nor Berlin nor Cambridge could she leave the native country of her mother tongue" #Austria #USA www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Ghosts of Ingeborg Bachmann
Haunted by a dark past, the poet and novelist tried to explore the limits of language itself.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Bachmann was a compulsive crosser of national if not linguistic borders... Even escaping her own dialect of Austrian German proved difficult. In neither Rome nor Berlin nor Cambridge could she leave the native country of her mother tongue" #Austria #USA www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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In which the Hillman Foundation makes an unlikely appearance in an Epstein/Michael Wolff/Steve Bannon thread. Congrats, Hillman folks! www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing
And Republicans are running scared.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In which the Hillman Foundation makes an unlikely appearance in an Epstein/Michael Wolff/Steve Bannon thread. Congrats, Hillman folks! www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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To see journalists and financiers and academics at best gossiping with Epstein and at worst providing him care and counsel is to see how the #MeToo movement never went far enough: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing
And Republicans are running scared.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
To see journalists and financiers and academics at best gossiping with Epstein and at worst providing him care and counsel is to see how the #MeToo movement never went far enough: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Hakeem Jeffries dismissed Mamdani’s team as “Team Gentrifiers,” drawing a line between natives and transplants. “Zohran said ‘no’ to this,” Dandia continued. “The dividing line is not the accident of birth, but the billionaires who profit and the rest of us.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Meaning of a Muslim Mayor
What Zohran Mamdani’s win signifies—and what it doesn’t.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Hakeem Jeffries dismissed Mamdani’s team as “Team Gentrifiers,” drawing a line between natives and transplants. “Zohran said ‘no’ to this,” Dandia continued. “The dividing line is not the accident of birth, but the billionaires who profit and the rest of us.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Palestinian seed saver and conservationist Vivien Sansour explains why environmental annihilation is a weapon of war — and why climate movements must speak clearly about genocide.
Hear the latest episode of A People's Climate for @thenation.com.
Hear the latest episode of A People's Climate for @thenation.com.
Seeds of Resistance, With Vivien Sansour
On A People's Climate: “If you want to support Palestine, get free.”
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November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Palestinian seed saver and conservationist Vivien Sansour explains why environmental annihilation is a weapon of war — and why climate movements must speak clearly about genocide.
Hear the latest episode of A People's Climate for @thenation.com.
Hear the latest episode of A People's Climate for @thenation.com.
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Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
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New from me for The Nation:
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If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power
We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.
New from me for The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
New from me for The Nation:
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Yesterday, @thenation.com ran my unprecedented investigation revealing a major U.S. landlord's links to West Bank settlements and the IDF.
To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC. (1/10)
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To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC. (1/10)
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The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Yesterday, @thenation.com ran my unprecedented investigation revealing a major U.S. landlord's links to West Bank settlements and the IDF.
To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC. (1/10)
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
To see how American Landmark's U.S. tenants are being victimized, let's look at AL's properties in Charlotte, NC. (1/10)
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Writing in @thenation.com December issue, @liamjscott.bsky.social writes about our work to #FreeJimmyLai.
A renowned publisher, pro-democracy advocate, a husband, a father, a grandfather. As he turns 78, the race is on to free him and save his life.
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A renowned publisher, pro-democracy advocate, a husband, a father, a grandfather. As he turns 78, the race is on to free him and save his life.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai
How a globe-trotting attorney is trying to win the release of the famed Hong Kong publisher.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Writing in @thenation.com December issue, @liamjscott.bsky.social writes about our work to #FreeJimmyLai.
A renowned publisher, pro-democracy advocate, a husband, a father, a grandfather. As he turns 78, the race is on to free him and save his life.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A renowned publisher, pro-democracy advocate, a husband, a father, a grandfather. As he turns 78, the race is on to free him and save his life.
www.thenation.com/article/worl...