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Jon WienerLast time, the courts were an essential checking force on the Trump administration. This time around, they seem much less prom...

Amba GuerguerianA patchwork of volunteer-run mutual aid organizations has sprung up to tackle the severe problems facing people fleeing...

Michael T. KlareStrategic incoherence and factionalism reign.The post The Dangers of Trump’s Foreign Policy appeared first on The Nat...

Zachary FineHis art criticism fixated on the narcissism of the entire enterprise. But over six decades, his work proved that a critic co...

James K. GalbraithA large majority of voters gave the Biden administration a failing grade on the economy. For the sake of future policy...

Harrison Stetler French parliament votes to oust government.The post Macronism Has Died a Second Death appeared first on The Nation.

Jacob SugarmanA far-right international extending from Lara Trump and Steve Bannon to Jair Bolsonaro and Javier Milei joined reactionari...

Steve BrodnerWhen a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king; the palace becomes a circus.The post King of Chaos appeared fir...

John NicholsThe strategist who helped Bernie Sanders win the Latino vote took himself out of the race for DNC chair—but he’s still got l...

Elie MystalPeople need to stop asking Democrats to play by different rules than Republicans, and they need to stop asking Biden to be a...

Walden BelloRight now the clash between the country’s dynastic duo is an entertaining political soap opera. But this spat between the dy...

Elie MystalThe conservative majority spent much of the oral arguments for US v. Skrmetti trying to erase the trans community.The post...

Nasrin SheykhiIn the Constitution.The post Booked appeared first on The Nation.

Eman Alhaj AliAround the world, backpacks represent freedom. But here, they are what we use to carry what’s left of our lives.The pos...

Elias RodriquesA talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction h...

Gregg GonsalvesH5N1 currently poses a real threat for human transmission. Meanwhile, Trump’s picks for public health roles don’t bode we...

Joanna WuestThere is plenty of uncertainty involved in gender-affirming care—as in most aspects of medicine. But the groups behind the T...

Chris LehmannThe Fox News pundit—an alleged sexual assaulter with a drinking problem—has moved into Matt Gaetz territory.The post Pet...

Rachel E. Barkow, Mark OslerBiden knows there is a better way to use it—other people’s children also deserve mercy.The post Hunter Bi...

Jimin KangJosé Henrique Bortoluci's What Is Mine tells the story of his country’s laborers, like his father, who built its infrastructur...

Vadim NikitinThe political crisis is escalating.The post Protests Engulf Georgia appeared first on The Nation.

André CarrilhoAnd worse.The post Apartheid appeared first on The Nation.

Steve BrodnerThe grovel pit.The post Les Mis appeared first on The Nation.

Felipe GalindoThe oil industry denies climate change, opposes regulations, and significantly contributes to the environmental crisis.The...

Chris LehmannThe president-elect wants to put a “deep state” conspiracy theorist in charge of the actual deep state.The post Kash Pat...