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Portugal youth climate strike

The Youth Climate Movement Is Just Getting Started The Youth Climate Movement Is Just Getting Started

The nascent activist movement has continued to expand across the world, and politicians are taking notice.

Jun 13, 2019 / StudentNation / Angely Mercado

Bibi and Trump

Trump and Bibi Are Evil Twinsies Trump and Bibi Are Evil Twinsies

As aspiring autocrats, Trump and Bibi are strikingly alike.

Jun 13, 2019 / Column / Eric Alterman

Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg’s Comprehensive Foreign-Policy Vision Pete Buttigieg’s Comprehensive Foreign-Policy Vision

In a speech at Indiana University, Mayor Pete promised to end America’s endless wars, support nuclear nonproliferation, and rejoin the Iran nuclear deal.

Jun 13, 2019 / James Carden

Philippines Indigenous Protestor

Duterte’s Chinese-Funded Dam Will Displace Indigenous Communities Duterte’s Chinese-Funded Dam Will Displace Indigenous Communities

An ambitious plan to improve Manila’s water shortage is leaving Filipino villagers high and dry.

Jun 13, 2019 / Nick Aspinwall

‘This Isn’t Your Island’: Why Northern Mariana Islanders Are Facing Down the US Military

‘This Isn’t Your Island’: Why Northern Mariana Islanders Are Facing Down the US Military ‘This Isn’t Your Island’: Why Northern Mariana Islanders Are Facing Down the US Military

Residents of the US commonwealth have discovered an apparently illegal Navy strategy to help it construct Pacific bombing ranges.

Jun 12, 2019 / Chris Gelardi and Sophia Perez

Sanders in California

Bernie Sanders: ‘We Have to Talk About Democratic Socialism as an Alternative to Unfettered Capitalism’ Bernie Sanders: ‘We Have to Talk About Democratic Socialism as an Alternative to Unfettered Capitalism’

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, Sanders explains that economic rights must be understood as human rights.

Jun 12, 2019 / John Nichols

Scamming the Scene: Lucy Ives and the Fiction of the Cultural Industry

Scamming the Scene: Lucy Ives and the Fiction of the Cultural Industry Scamming the Scene: Lucy Ives and the Fiction of the Cultural Industry

Ives’ second novel, Loudermilk, lampoons MFA writing programs and the inherited wealth that props them up. 

Jun 12, 2019 / Charlie Markbreiter

Vasily Grossman in War and Peace

Vasily Grossman in War and Peace Vasily Grossman in War and Peace

In both his life and his writing, the novelist and journalist captured the complications and contradictions of the Soviet century.

Jun 12, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Sheila Fitzpatrick

Adam Gopnik and the Cul-de-sac of 21st-Century Liberalism

Adam Gopnik and the Cul-de-sac of 21st-Century Liberalism Adam Gopnik and the Cul-de-sac of 21st-Century Liberalism

In his new book, the New Yorker writer sets out to defend liberalism from its critics, but only ends up revealing its current limitations.

Jun 12, 2019 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell

California wildfires

Will the World End in Nuclear—or Climate—Catastrophe? Will the World End in Nuclear—or Climate—Catastrophe?

Our politicians’ warmongering merely distracts us from the bigger picture of global disaster.

Jun 12, 2019 / David Bromwich

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