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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."

Oct 14, 2024 / StudentNation / Urvi Kumbhat and Sophie Bandarkar

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.

Oct 14, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Eli Rudavsky

Nation Poetry

FIGURE EIGHT FIGURE EIGHT

Oct 14, 2024 / Poems / Daniel Moysaenko

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.

Oct 11, 2024 / Joan Walsh

Mohammed Mhawish and Refaat Alareer.

Refaat Alareer Was My Friend. I Will Miss Him Forever. Refaat Alareer Was My Friend. I Will Miss Him Forever.

The weight of his absence presses on me daily, a relentless reminder of the void he left behind.

Oct 11, 2024 / Mohammed R. Mhawish

Activists with Jewish Voice for Peace hold signs during a protest at the office of House minority leader Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on March 12, 2024.

The American Jewish Consensus Is Fracturing—and That’s a Blessing The American Jewish Consensus Is Fracturing—and That’s a Blessing

While the Jewish establishment bemoans divisions around Israel, younger Jews are demonstrating that the real crisis is that so many support a state engaging in mass murder.

Oct 11, 2024 / Alissa Wise

A Palestinian man holds the dead body of his cousin.

The High Cost of Biden’s Policy of Unconditional Support for Israel The High Cost of Biden’s Policy of Unconditional Support for Israel

Beyond hobbling Kamala Harris’s campaign, Biden is leaving behind a disaster that will last decades.

Oct 11, 2024 / Jeet Heer

A volunteer fans herself with political literature while canvassing for local Democrats in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 7, 2024.

What Arizona Polling Doesn’t Tell Us About the Tight Race What Arizona Polling Doesn’t Tell Us About the Tight Race

There simply is no effort on the GOP side anywhere close to the size and sophistication of the Worker Power canvas.

Oct 11, 2024 / Sasha Abramsky

Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, left, and Republican Steve Garvey, meet for a live debate hosted by ABC7 on October 8.

Adam Schiff Offers a Crash Course in How to Leave Republican Opponents Speechless Adam Schiff Offers a Crash Course in How to Leave Republican Opponents Speechless

Democrats campaigning in blue and purple states should follow Schiff’s lead in making an issue of the GOP’s Trump cronyism.

Oct 11, 2024 / John Nichols

AI Is Taking Over College Admissions

AI Is Taking Over College Admissions AI Is Taking Over College Admissions

For many high school students, artificial intelligence only heightens the anxieties around applying to college. How much of their application will be read by a human?

Oct 11, 2024 / StudentNation / Marium Zahra

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