Article | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/ The Nation Magazine Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:38:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/n-logo.png Article | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/ 32 32 Yes, Texas Representative Nicole Collier Was Under “House Arrest” in the Texas Capitol https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-nicole-collier-house-arrest/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-nicole-collier-house-arrest/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:02:04 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567831 Joan Walsh

Collier speaks about her surreal ordeal, wherein she refused to sign a permission slip and accept a police escort to leave the Austin statehouse and had to sleep there for two nights.

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Manhattan Alcatraz https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/manhattan-alcatraz/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/manhattan-alcatraz/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:23:22 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567757 Steve Brodner

Ms. Rachel knows.

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Democrats Need to Stop Letting Trump Set the Terms of Engagement https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-trump-dc-troops/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-trump-dc-troops/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:06:27 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567699 Chris Lehmann

With every White House action, from mass deportation to domestic deployment of federal troops the “opposition party” has accepted the premise and failed to offer an alternative.

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Letter From DC: Goodbye to John Wall, Hello to Celebrating His Rebel Spirit https://www.thenation.com/article/society/john-wall-washington-dc-trump-protests/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/john-wall-washington-dc-trump-protests/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:51:11 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567693 Dave Zirin

The former Washington Wizards point guard retires from the NBA, but the anti-Trump protests embody his swaggy defiance.

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The DNC Chair Proposes Major Reforms to Limit Big Money https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-dark-money-dnc-primaries/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-dark-money-dnc-primaries/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:02:19 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567420 Larry Cohen

Party building vs. candidate addiction has never been more urgent.

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Solidarity Staircase https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/solidarity-staircase/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/solidarity-staircase/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:30:36 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567111 Andrea Arroyo

The stairways to iconic Park Güell in Barcelona were transformed into a representation of the Palestinian flag , and the plaza above was named “Free Palestine”, as a symbol of support for the Palestinian cause. Catalonia, Spain, July 2025.

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Democrats Have a Gaza Problem. They Don’t Seem to Want to Fix It. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dnc-gaza-ken-martin-democrats/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dnc-gaza-ken-martin-democrats/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567635 Evan Robins

DNC chair Ken Martin is emblematic of the party elite’s decision to cling to the unacceptable status quo on Palestine and Israel—even at the risk of losing more elections.

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A Losing “Argument” https://www.thenation.com/article/society/media-the-argument-abundance/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/media-the-argument-abundance/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567473 Jacob Silverman

The buzzy new publication devoted to “libbing out” reprises the mistakes of the longstanding alliance between neoliberalism and Beltway journalism.

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Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cuomo-trump-new-york-mayoral-race-comments/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cuomo-trump-new-york-mayoral-race-comments/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567639 Jeet Heer

The disgraced former governor is repeatedly proving just how similar he is to the disgraced current president.

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Trump Wants to Make Art Into a Tool of the State https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-smithsonian-art-tool-state/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-smithsonian-art-tool-state/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567626 Barry Schwabsky

In ordering a review of the Smithsonian, the White House wants to use its power to remake our culture—or to reinvigorate a strain in the culture that has been dormant for a long time.

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Why Did ICE Arrest This North Carolina Family? They Were Home. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ice-arrest-north-carolina-family/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ice-arrest-north-carolina-family/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567649 Sasha Abramsky

Two family members have been released, but 20-year-old Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla has been held at Georgia’s infamous Stewart Detention Center since February.

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Israeli Soldiers Abused Me Before. I’m Terrified That They’ll Do It Again. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-city-invasion-israel-abuse/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-city-invasion-israel-abuse/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:56:34 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567598 Ali Skaik

Israel is invading Gaza City again. The trauma of what they did to me and my family during their last invasion haunts me every single day.

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Tyrant https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tyrant/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tyrant/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:30:02 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566903 Mark Kaplan

In the wild.

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The Empty Provocations of “Eddington” https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/eddington-ari-aster/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/eddington-ari-aster/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567128 Kelli Weston

Ari Aster’s farcical western is billed as a send-up of the puerile politics of the Covid years. In reality, it’s a film that seems to have no politics at all.

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Trump’s War on Higher Ed Comes to the Bargaining Table https://www.thenation.com/article/society/grad-union-columbia-harvard-contracts-trump/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/grad-union-columbia-harvard-contracts-trump/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567423 Amann Mahajan

As two of the nation’s largest private graduate student unions fight for new contracts, their members have been among the most vulnerable to the president’s attacks on universities.

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The Invisible Snakes of Climate Change https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-tony-bartelme-rising-waters/ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-tony-bartelme-rising-waters/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567567 Mark Hertsgaard

Tony Bartelme’s new book shows how great storytelling can wake people up.

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Democrats’ Failed Bueller Strategy on Voting Rights https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-gerrymandering-2026-midterms/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-gerrymandering-2026-midterms/#respond Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567444 David Daley, David Faris

Party leaders are talking tough about retaliatory gerrymandering—but like Principal Rooney, they're unable to fight back effectively

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The Ukraine Peace Process Is Moving Quite Fast https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-russia-war-peace/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-russia-war-peace/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567413 Anatol Lieven

Here are the openings—and obstacles.

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Unhealthy Head of Health https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/unhealthy-head-of-health/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/unhealthy-head-of-health/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:30:10 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566897 David Small

RFK Jr. dismantles vaccination programs.

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The Rot at Fort Bragg https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/seth-harp-fort-bragg-cartel/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/seth-harp-fort-bragg-cartel/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567158 Lyle Jeremy Rubin

Seth Harp exposes how all the death and crime surrounding one military base is not an aberration but representative of the fratricidal impulse of the armed forces at large.

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Eating Meat While Deporting Those Who Produce It https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/poultry-meat-workers-trump-deportation-meatpacking/ https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/poultry-meat-workers-trump-deportation-meatpacking/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567385 Alice Driver

The people who do the dirty work of killing and processing animals hold up our food system. Trump is putting them in danger.

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Trump Targets Mail-In Voting, and the Democrats Phone in Their Counter-Strategies https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-mail-voting-democrats-counter-strategies/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-mail-voting-democrats-counter-strategies/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:41:35 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567347 Chris Lehmann

Trump has launched an all-out assault on civic freedoms, but the Democrats aren’t yet giving their base something to vote for.

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Shocking: The Trump Administration Grabs the Third Rail With Both Hands https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/social-security-trump-new-deal/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/social-security-trump-new-deal/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:10:02 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567294 June Hopkins, Henry Scott Wallace, James Roosevelt Jr.

Our grandparents would urge us all to defend and strengthen Social Security.

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I Went to the “Free Press” Party for Under-30s. All I Got Was Ennui.  https://www.thenation.com/article/society/i-went-to-the-free-press-party-for-under-30s-all-i-got-was-ennui/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/i-went-to-the-free-press-party-for-under-30s-all-i-got-was-ennui/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:17:28 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567237 Sophie Hurwitz

At Bari Weiss’s “Cheers to the Republic” mixer, I met anti-vaxxers, was recruited for a trip to Israel, and heard the word “heterodox” more than I would have liked to.

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Dismantling USAID Wasn’t Just Cruel—It Was Stupid https://www.thenation.com/article/world/usaid-donald-trump-elon-musk/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/usaid-donald-trump-elon-musk/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:55:09 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567293 William deBuys

In an interconnected world, those who are alone, to use a favorite word of the president’s, are losers.

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Art of the Deals https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/art-of-the-deals/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/art-of-the-deals/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:30:12 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566870 Michael deAdder

Drafty in here.

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Monuments to Migration and Labor https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ice-raids-immigration-trump-deportations/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ice-raids-immigration-trump-deportations/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:30:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567157 Ánh Adams, Andy Urban

In the face of escalating ICE raids, how can we honor and give voice to immigrant laborers?

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Montana Doesn’t Need Any More Rural Ghost Towns, but That’s What Republicans Voted For https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/medicaid-expansion-montana-rural-hospitals/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/medicaid-expansion-montana-rural-hospitals/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:30:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567138 Steve Bullock

Across the country, rural hospitals will close, and the empty towns will mirror the quiet halls where doctors and nurses once rushed to heal.

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The Revolutionary Politics of “Andor” https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/star-wars-andor-disney-season-2/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/star-wars-andor-disney-season-2/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:00:01 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=565048 Jorge Cotte

The latest addition to the Star Wars series offers an intricate tale of radicalization and its costs.

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As Progressive Elected Officials, We Choose Both Economic Populism and Abundance https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/economic-populism-abundance/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/economic-populism-abundance/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567256 Burhan Azeem, Teresa Mosqueda, Zo Qadri, Anna Brawley

The abundance agenda makes progressive populism more effective.

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They’re Not Just Coming for DEI. They’re Coming for Democracy. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stacey-abrams-dei-defense/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stacey-abrams-dei-defense/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567173 Stacey Abrams

Destroying DEI has a clear motive: to stop Americans from seeking common cause.

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Is Trump’s DC Military Deployment the Start of a Slow-Motion Civil War? https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-dc-military-deployment-civil-war/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-dc-military-deployment-civil-war/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:25:38 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567233 Joan Walsh

Anything is possible in the coming days and weeks, but it’s difficult not to feel like we are veering toward escalating violence.

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Billy Wilder’s Battle With the Past https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/billy-wilder-hollywood-zionism-holocaust/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/billy-wilder-hollywood-zionism-holocaust/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:30:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567083 Ben Schwartz

How the fabled Hollywood director confronted survivor’s guilt, the legacies of the Holocaust, and the paradoxes of Zionism.

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Trump Won’t Deliver Peace to Ukraine—or Anywhere Else https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-putin-alaska-ukraine-russia-foreign-policy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-putin-alaska-ukraine-russia-foreign-policy/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567123 Jeet Heer

No one can trust the United States when a fickle man-child controls its foreign policy.

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Gaza Protests Spread https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/gaza-protests-spread/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/gaza-protests-spread/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:30:40 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567104 Andrew Courtney

Starvation mounts as Netanyahu escalates attacks.

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On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/power-of-small-acts-of-resistance-trump/ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/power-of-small-acts-of-resistance-trump/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:00:02 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=565831 Elie Mystal

At a moment when large-scale resistance can feel futile,
there are other ways to oppose, engage, and fight back.

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The Art and Genius of Lorna Simpson https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lorna-simpson-met-museum/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lorna-simpson-met-museum/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:00:02 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=565378 Rachel Hunter Himes

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tracks what has changed and what has remained the same in the artist’s work.

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MAGA Conservatives Are Terrified of the Future https://www.thenation.com/article/society/maga-fear-future/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/maga-fear-future/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:00:02 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=565838 Chris Lehmann

Trump and his followers don’t just want to halt progress. They want to turn back the clock.

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As Federal Support Wanes, States Must Reinvest in Higher Education https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-cuts-higher-education-state-reinvestment/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-cuts-higher-education-state-reinvestment/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566970 Abhinandan Gaba

Our education system faces a crisis of affordability and access only amplified by the passage of the Big, Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempted cuts. States need to step up.

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The Dangers and Absurdities of Trump’s DC Occupation https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/washington-dc-trump-occupation/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/washington-dc-trump-occupation/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:49:21 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567047 Dave Zirin

Trump compels his followers to endorse obvious lies. It’s accelerating the country’s descent into authoritarianism.

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Fire With Fire https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/fire-with-fire/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/fire-with-fire/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:34:59 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566971 Steve Brodner

“ME WANT!”

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“Unbelievably Disrepectful”: Trump Sends Troops to Newsom’s Big Beautiful Press Conference https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/disrepectful-trump-troops-california/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/disrepectful-trump-troops-california/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:28:01 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=567016 Joan Walsh

The symbolism of the Border Patrol’s gratuitous display wasn’t lost on the leadership of the Japanese American National Museum, where the event was held.

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Old Ties https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/old-ties/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/old-ties/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:30:09 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566172 David Plunkert

The hang out route.

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Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-war-diplomacy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-war-diplomacy/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:30:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566831 RootsAction, The American Committee for US-Russia Accord

The war in Ukraine is a regional security and humanitarian tragedy, but regarding nuclear weapons, Washington and Moscow stand to benefit from working together.

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Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/chris-smalls-speaks-out-after-his-journey-to-gaza/ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/chris-smalls-speaks-out-after-his-journey-to-gaza/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:30:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566895 Ella Fanger

In an interview, the union organizer talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement.

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The Bookstores Bridging Divides in Israel https://www.thenation.com/article/world/eric-orner-israel-bookstores/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/eric-orner-israel-bookstores/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:00:01 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=565501 Eric Orner

People of goodwill on either side of the horror find unity in the search for a good read.

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Pete Hegseth Is Creating a Patriarchal Pentagon to Fight Domestic Foes https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pete-hegseth-patriarchy-sexism-pentagon-crec/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pete-hegseth-patriarchy-sexism-pentagon-crec/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566834 Jeet Heer

The defense secretary fervently supports a theocratic church that preaches female submission.

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“It’s Homeland or Death”: The Separatist Movement Roiling the Indian World https://www.thenation.com/article/world/khalistan-movement-referendum/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/khalistan-movement-referendum/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566707 Nevin Kallepalli

Indian Sikhs across the globe want to form an independent breakaway state called Khalistan. The Indian government wants to crush them by any means necessary.

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“This Is a Hunting of People”: LA Protesters Turn Out to Resist ICE https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/los-angeles-resist-immigration-raids/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/los-angeles-resist-immigration-raids/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566921 Sasha Abramsky

Hundreds of Angelenos took to the streets Tuesday to show support for their neighbors and coworkers who are being targeted during ICE’s raids.

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What Does It Mean to Remember Hiroshima as Bombs Drop on Gaza? https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hiroshima-anniversary-nuclear-war/ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hiroshima-anniversary-nuclear-war/#respond Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:58:30 +0000 https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=566835 Eric Ross

This year, the sanitized appeals to peace, hope, and resilience in memory of the catastrophe have become increasingly hollow.

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