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The Right’s Attempted Extermination Campaign of Queer People Is Textbook Fascism The Right’s Attempted Extermination Campaign of Queer People Is Textbook Fascism

What does it mean to deprive a trans person of such care? It can, in fact, prove to be a death sentence.

Jul 4, 2023 / Rebecca Gordon

Members of the Freeport Peace Vigil stand as they have stood for over 40 Sundays on the steps of the post office in Freeport, New York, carrying signs protesting the war in Vietnam on Jan. 21, 1968.

Happy Anti-Imperialist Fourth of July Happy Anti-Imperialist Fourth of July

John Quincy Adams warned on July 4, 1821, that the US should speak "the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights"—not of empire. He was right.

Jul 4, 2023 / John Nichols

Republican Presidential Candidates Speak At The Moms For Liberty Summit

Moms for Liberty Is the Tea Party All Over Again Moms for Liberty Is the Tea Party All Over Again

The growing right-wing movement proved its influence at its recent Philadelphia summit. The political press is playing right into its hands.

Jul 3, 2023 / Chris Lehmann

“The Nation” Names Kate Wagner Architecture Correspondent

“The Nation” Names Kate Wagner Architecture Correspondent “The Nation” Names Kate Wagner Architecture Correspondent

From homes to offices, parks to parking lots, Wagner will cover the politics of built space under late-stage capitalism.

Jul 3, 2023 / Press Room

Scene from History of the World Part I

Our Supreme Court Reactionaries Still Fear the French Revolution Our Supreme Court Reactionaries Still Fear the French Revolution

In John Roberts’s America, it’s good to be the king.

Jul 3, 2023 / Jeet Heer

A protester outside the Supreme Court holding a sign reading

The Supreme Court Has Kicked the Door Wide Open to Jim Crow–Style Bigotry The Supreme Court Has Kicked the Door Wide Open to Jim Crow–Style Bigotry

The court's conservatives used a case literally based on a homophobe’s fantasies to blow a huge hole in our antidiscrimination laws and revive the spirit of Plessy v. Ferguson.

Jul 3, 2023 / Column / Elie Mystal

You Know the Drill

You Know the Drill You Know the Drill

A student-created art installation at Riverdale Country School, Bronx, NY, by PICA, led by artist-educa-tor Nicky Enright, in collaboration with the Soul Box Project, a national in...

Jul 3, 2023 / OppArt / Projects in Contemporary Art

Gus Newport and Danny Glover speak at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders

Gus Newport Showed Bernie Sanders How to Be a Socialist Mayor in the Age of Reagan Gus Newport Showed Bernie Sanders How to Be a Socialist Mayor in the Age of Reagan

Former Berkeley mayor Eugene “Gus” Newport was an indefatigable activist who proudly identified as “an avowed socialist” in the age of Ronald Reagan—a fact that The New York Times…

Jul 3, 2023 / John Nichols

Fourth of July

America’s Youth Have a Problem America’s Youth Have a Problem

According to over a dozen student journalists, these are some of the most important issues facing the US, including climate change, health care, child labor, and LGBTQ+ rights.

Jul 3, 2023 / StudentNation / StudentNation

A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning fighter jet is shown at the Singapore Airshow in 2014

The Pentagon Won Big With the Debt Ceiling Bill The Pentagon Won Big With the Debt Ceiling Bill

And thanks to a loophole in the budget deal, national security spending will only increase.

Jul 3, 2023 / William D. Hartung and Julia Gledhill

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