![Elon Musk Straight-Arms the World](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2-05-25-FEAT1440.gif)
Elon Musk Straight-Arms the World Elon Musk Straight-Arms the World
From X to rallies, Musk’s fascist messages are clear.
Feb 5, 2025 / OppArt / Giulio Bonasera
![A woman with a ponytail walks through a door.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/claudia-sheinbaum-getty.jpg)
Trump’s Phony Trade Wars Are Evidence of American Imperial Decline Trump’s Phony Trade Wars Are Evidence of American Imperial Decline
President’s bullying of allies yields symbolic results—but betrays substantive weakness.
Feb 5, 2025 / Jeet Heer
![Workers, community members, and business owners clean up debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Marshall, North Carolina, on September 30, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/marshall-north-carolina-helene.jpg)
The People in Charge Won’t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe. We’ll Need to Do It Ourselves. The People in Charge Won’t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe. We’ll Need to Do It Ourselves.
Grassroots efforts in places like North Carolina show what we can—and increasingly must—do in a world plagued by climate disasters.
Feb 5, 2025 / Anna Simonton
![Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the north of Gaza on February 3, 2025.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2196935415.jpg)
Everything Is Destroyed in Gaza. But I Still Feel the Pulse of Life. Everything Is Destroyed in Gaza. But I Still Feel the Pulse of Life.
When I am finally able to return to the ruins of what was my house, I will do so, not to weep, but to make a promise to rebuild it.
Feb 5, 2025 / Lujayn
![Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) listens as the Senate Finance Committee votes on February 4, 2025, to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next secretary of health and human services.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197620383.jpg)
Cassidy Caves to MAGA Threats Cassidy Caves to MAGA Threats
Fearing a primary challenge, the Louisiana Republican and physician backed away from his critique of RFK Jr. to recommend his nomination. It’s unlikely to be blocked in the Senate...
Feb 4, 2025 / Joan Walsh
![Inaugural Brawl](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2-04-25-FEAT1440-1.gif)
Inaugural Brawl Inaugural Brawl
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Feb 4, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner
![Grassroots action: Our Revolution at the Democratic National Committee leadership election on Saturday.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/our-revolution-protest.jpg)
Defeating the Democratic Party Elites Is Just the First Step Defeating the Democratic Party Elites Is Just the First Step
The party faces a choice: Will it embrace the grassroots energy behind its newly elected leadership? Or allow Trump and his corporate allies to tighten their grip on the country?
Feb 4, 2025 / Joseph Geevarghese
![Abdominal Snowman](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2-03-25-FEAT1440-1.gif)
Abdominal Snowman Abdominal Snowman
Three Danish cartoonists look at Trump’s Manifest Tonsillectomy.
Feb 4, 2025 / OppArt / Per Marquard Otzen, Jens Julius Hansen, Lars Andersen
![Parenting In the Age of Trump](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-12030041801.jpg)
Parenting In the Age of Trump Parenting In the Age of Trump
Like Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator movies, Elie Mystal is trying to figure out how to prepare his children for the dystopian future.
Feb 4, 2025 / Elie Mystal
![Kendrick Lamar performs during halftime in Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, in Inglewood, California.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Kendrick_Lamar-Super_Bowl_LVI-getty.jpg)
The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine
The NFL, to my shock, has not prematurely surrendered to Trump and Elon Musk’s agenda of Black erasure.
Feb 4, 2025 / Dave Zirin