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Harris has been virtually silent on trans rights, and her policies would disproportionately benefit well-off trans people.

Charlie Markbreiter

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Man in Buenos Aires Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Man in Buenos Aires

Argetine President Javier Milei is chainsawing his way through his country’s social safety net. That could be a preview of things to come in the United States.

Jacob Sugarman

Can BRICS Rise in a World Threatened by War? Can BRICS Rise in a World Threatened by War?

The group’s appeal is only growing since its recent expansion, but it must now deal with a world on the brink.

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2024 Election

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH, speaks at a campaign rally on Saturday, October 5, 2024, in Cincinnati. Ohio.

To Restore Abortion Rights, Democrats Must Win the Senate To Restore Abortion Rights, Democrats Must Win the Senate

If Democrats manage to win the White House but lose the Senate, then people in GOP-controlled states will continue to be forced to bring pregnancies to term against their will.

Elie Mystal

Kamala Harris, with Liz Cheney behind her, smiles and clutches her hand. A banner reads Country Over Party behind.

The Harris Campaign Needs a Course Correction The Harris Campaign Needs a Course Correction

The vice president’s eager embrace of Republican support is one sign that the mistakes of 2016 are being repeated.

Jeet Heer

A screengrab of Vice President Kamala Harris during her interview with 60 Minutes, listening to a question from her interviewer.

Harris Rocked the Media Blitz That Big Media Mocked Harris Rocked the Media Blitz That Big Media Mocked

This ought to calm the media malcontents who’ve insisted she hasn’t sat for enough interviews, right? Wrong.

Joan Walsh

World

A Study Reveals CNN and MSNBC’s Glaring Gaza Double Standard

A Study Reveals CNN and MSNBC’s Glaring Gaza Double Standard A Study Reveals CNN and MSNBC’s Glaring Gaza Double Standard

Palestinians received far less sympathetic and humanizing coverage than either Israelis or Ukrainians, a Nation analysis has found.

Adam Johnson and Othman Ali

A woman walks past a crater where a collapsed building stood following an Israeli air strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, on October 7, 2024.

Israel Invaded Lebanon Because the United States Let It Israel Invaded Lebanon Because the United States Let It

The leveling of Lebanese border towns is the continuation of Israel’s Gaza policy: total destruction and ill-defined objectives.

Séamus Malekafzali

Kamala Harris speaks to the media before boarding Air Force Two after assessing the Hurricane Helene recovery response in North Carolina on October 5, 2024, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The One Guaranteed Winner in 2024: American Empire The One Guaranteed Winner in 2024: American Empire

Democrat or Republican, the next presidency will still mean death for others in faraway places.

Ahmed Moor

Books & the Arts

German Jewish refugees looking through portholes aboard an ocean liner arriving in Antwerp, 1939.

What the Jewish History of Exile Means Now What the Jewish History of Exile Means Now

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians.

Books & the Arts / Eli Rudavsky

Alba de Céspedes’s Marriage Plot Polemic

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In the Cuban-Italian novelist’s Her Side of the Story, she confronts the falsity of romantic love.

Books & the Arts / Rachel Vorona Cote

Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina and Laurence Fishburne as Fundi Romaine in “Megalopolis”.

The Empty Promise of “Megalopolis” The Empty Promise of “Megalopolis”

Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited magnum opus is a flop.

Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse

Politics

Pro-Palestine student protest

What’s Next for the Pro-Palestine Student Movement? What’s Next for the Pro-Palestine Student Movement?

“We are not just going to let campus life start as normal.”

StudentNation / Urvi Kumbhat and Sophie Bandarkar

Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Dodge County Airport on October 06, 2024 in Juneau, Wisconsin.

Donald Trump Is Running Scared Donald Trump Is Running Scared

He relished the limelight in 2016 and 2020. Now he’s refusing to debate and ducking interviews.

John Nichols

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The Paradoxes Facing the Christian Right in Election 2024 The Paradoxes Facing the Christian Right in Election 2024

This year’s Pray Vote Stand summit revealed fissures around Trump’s refusal to support a nationwide abortion ban.

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After discovering Jane in 1971, Shannon joined Chicago’s famous abortion underground.

The Story of Sakinah Ahad Shannon, an Early Hero of Abortion Liberation The Story of Sakinah Ahad Shannon, an Early Hero of Abortion Liberation

Sakinah discovered Chicago’s Abortion Counseling Service, better known as Jane, because she wanted to help a friend. Then she became an essential part of it.

Feature / Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone

Mary Sully’s Astonishing Art Pictures American History Through Indigenous Eyes

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A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum reveals how deeply embedded a Native woman’s perspective on our culture might be.

Feature / Elizabeth Pochoda

How Immigration Became a Lightning Rod in American Politics

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Anti-immigrant think tanks and advocacy groups operated on the margins until Trump became president. Now they have molded not only the GOP but also Democrats in their image.

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