Q&A / May 17, 2024

WATCH LIVE: The Election After Gaza

A conversation considering the ethical and strategic questions of voting amid Israel’s US-backed war on Gaza.

The Nation Events
(Jewish Currents)

Join Jewish Currents at 4pm today for an urgent conversation about the ethical and strategic questions around voting in an election cycle taking place in the midst of Israel’s US-backed war on Gaza. Featuring: Peter Beinart, Layla Elabed, Masha Gessen, and Waleed Shahid; hosted by Mehdi Hasan.

Watch the livestream:

More from The Nation

Adams Family Values

Adams Family Values Adams Family Values

Kennedy Center.

Steve Brodner

Jamie Raskin

How Democrats Can Fight Back How Democrats Can Fight Back

Jamie Raskin lays out the legal strategy to oppose Trump but says, “We’re not going to sue our way out of a political crisis”—Democrats need a political organizing strategy.

Q&A / Chris Lehmann

Some day all this will be mine: Trump swears in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services.

Donald Trump Is Stealing the Kennedy Brand Donald Trump Is Stealing the Kennedy Brand

Does the Kennedy name stand for liberalism—or oligarchy?

Jeet Heer

Christianaman

Christianaman Christianaman

Tanks for everything.

OppArt / Lalo Alcaraz

Hundreds of Congolese protesters gather outside the BBC Broadcasting House to condemn the capture of Goma in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, and denounce the exploitation of coltan mining, believed to be an underlying motive in the offensive.

Soundtrack to a Complicit Silence Soundtrack to a Complicit Silence

Where silence becomes an accomplice, and absence is a refrain.

Maliyamungu Muhande

A sign is seen outside National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.

Trump’s Plan to Defund the NIH Will Ruin a National Treasure Trump’s Plan to Defund the NIH Will Ruin a National Treasure

Trump, Musk, and Vought are purging institutions and cutting off access to educational and research opportunities for anyone who isn’t straight and white.

Gregg Gonsalves