The Nation Magazine

The Rev. Jesse Jackson never stopped campaigning. Even in the last years of his life, the reverend kept calling his Rainbow PUSH Coalition together for one more mission, one more crusade for justice.
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The late architect Robert A.M. Stern believed wholeheartedly in the American project and all of its attendant kitsch. This is evident in everything from his Norman Rockwell Museum to his preoccupation with theme parks.
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The country’s new leaders, a hardline rebel group, have their own authoritarian tendencies. There will be new woes, unforeseen inequities, fresh abuses–but people will still organize and resist, not because they are ideologues, but simply because it is who they are.
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Israel Is Using Its Genocidal Gaza Playbook on Iran Just as in Palestine, the Israeli government is framing its latest conflict as a holy war of extermination.

Israel is using the same genocidal, religious rhetoric towards Iran that it has deployed to justify the Gaza genocide, writes @seamus-malekafzali.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

When Jesse Jackson looked at America—and at the world—he saw a gorgeous mosaic of humanity. He wanted the rest of us to see it as well.
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Robert A.M. Stern had a particular vision of American architecture: an apolitical playground in which the architect, working in a distinctly national tradition, could be “set free.”
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No one knows how many people were killed in Syria during the civil war.
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Israel Is Using Its Genocidal Gaza Playbook on Iran Just as in Palestine, the Israeli government is framing its latest conflict as a holy war of extermination.

Israel is using the same genocidal religious rhetoric towards Iran that it has deployed to justify the Gaza genocide, writes @seamus-malekafzali.com. https://bit.ly/4reMc4k

A Conflict Without Reason Has Become a Dangerous Holy War Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders.

Trumpist rhetoric of a holy war might convince the broader Islamic world that the Christian West is the enemy. If that happens, what is already a large regional conflict will truly spiral out of control. https://bit.ly/4svR06p

Just as in Gaza, the Israeli government is framing its attack on Iran as a holy war of extermination, writes @seamus-malekafzali.com.

A Conflict Without Reason Has Become a Dangerous Holy War Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders.

Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like religious crusaders. https://bit.ly/4svR06p

Texas’s Senate Primary Has Already Made History—and It’s Not Over Yet Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting

To stop the acquisition of guns, we need more than laws. We also need to offer safety to those who don’t feel taken care of in the most powerful country in the world.
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Celebrate Kristi Noem’s Firing. But Keep Protesting ICE. Finally, someone in the administration is paying for their cruelty and incompetence.

Trump’s about-face on the ICE operation in Minneapolis was his first defeat in the 14 months of his second term, and has provided a model for other communities to resist federal cruelty.
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Garbage In, Carnage Out The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.

All the Trump administration’s complaints about “woke AI” aside, the idea that Anthropic is a company run by a bunch of peaceniks that had somehow backed into the role of pulling down massive Pentagon contracts does considerable violence to the reality of the situation.
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Things won’t get better until Stephen Miller joins Kristi Noem in the unemployment line. But her firing is still worth celebrating:
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Texas’s Senate Primary Has Already Made History—and It’s Not Over Yet Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting

When more is taken away from so many people than given to them, guns offer those who carry them a reprieve from a sense of powerlessness over their daily lives and futures.
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Texas’s Senate Primary Has Already Made History—and It’s Not Over Yet Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting

The prospect of Trump rejecting the ebulliently vicious Paxton—a man who has positioned himself as Trump’s man in Texas for a decade—in favor of Cornyn and his slightly less obsequious support of the MAGA agenda is itself sublime.
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The outbreak of any war is bad news for the climate, just as the election of politicians hostile to climate action is.
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We Don’t Need an Autopsy to Tell Us the Democrats Failed on Gaza The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know.

The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know about the disastrous choices the party made.
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Thanks in part to the secrecy surrounding the Mamdani-Trump meeting, and to Trump’s willingness to pose holding up both front pages behind the Resolute Desk, the photo commemorating the meeting soon went viral (the mayor’s tweet of the event garnered 28.5 million views).
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Mamdani, the 2025 candidate who was confident enough to break the mold by not promising to visit Israel—or Italy, or Ireland—as mayor should realize that while clever media stunts might win the news cycle, succeeding in office will require other, more demanding qualities.
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Thanks in part to the secrecy surrounding the Mamdani-Trump meeting, and to Trump’s willingness to pose holding up both front pages behind the Resolute Desk, the photo commemorating the meeting soon went viral (the mayor’s tweet of the event garnered 28.5 million views).
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Trump and His Soulless Cronies Have Managed to Suck the Joy Out of the World Cup Not even soccer is immune from Trump’s reverse Midas touch.

The grim haze that has cloaked the days leading up to the 2026 World Cup shows how joyless this country has become under the authoritarian eye of the current regime.
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We Don’t Need an Autopsy to Tell Us the Democrats Failed on Gaza The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know.

We don't need a special report to tell us that the Democrats' Gaza policy hurt them badly in 2024. https://bit.ly/4b2u5IM

Texas’s Senate Primary Has Already Made History—and It’s Not Over Yet Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting

More than 2 million Dems voted in the primary, the most in a midterm primary since 1970. Based on those numbers, one pollster has already predicted that Dems will add 480,000 voters to their turnout.
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Texas’s Senate Primary Has Already Made History—and It’s Not Over Yet Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting

Now that Crockett has conceded to Talarico, Texas Dems are set to surge into the fall with the most favorable conditions possible: an electrified base, a battle-tested general election candidate, and a Republican flame-throwing freakshow.
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This year’s Oscar-nominated international feature films—especially The Secret Agent and Sirāt—tackle what it means to live and die under tyranny.
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Although the housing announcement that Mamdani was touting was all smoke and mirrors, the whole episode seemed like another example of what we might as well call the “Mamdani effect”: the ability to dominate a news cycle through sheer force of personality.
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Garbage In, Carnage Out The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.

All the Trump administration’s complaints about “woke AI” aside, the idea that Anthropic is a company run by a bunch of peaceniks that had somehow backed into the role of pulling down massive Pentagon contracts does considerable violence to the reality of the situation.
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The Bad Vibes of “Wuthering Heights” Keeping its distance from the novel, Emerald Fennell’s film ends up offering us a mirror of our own times.

By demanding that we don’t to think too hard about what the novel is really asking us to think pretty hard about, "Wuthering Heights" is much like a lot of media today.
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