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Heather Heyer Way in Charlottesville

The Whiniest Nazis Could Still Destroy Our Country The Whiniest Nazis Could Still Destroy Our Country

It’s easy to mock the white supremacists on trial for planning the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville—but that shouldn’t distract us from how frightening they are.

Nov 22, 2021 / Joan Walsh

Rep. Jamaal Bowman

Purge at DSA: Why Are Activists Trying to Expel Representative Bowman? Purge at DSA: Why Are Activists Trying to Expel Representative Bowman?

Jamaal Bowman’s victory over Eliot Engel, former chair of the House Foreign Relations committee, was celebrated by the left. Now, some in the socialist organization are calling for...

Nov 22, 2021 / Ross Barkan

Who Can Purchase a Gun?

Who Can Purchase a Gun? Who Can Purchase a Gun?

Lowest bar, highest death toll.

Nov 22, 2021 / OppArt / Ron Hauge

Chile Street Protest

Donald Duck Quacks Again as Chile Elects a New President Donald Duck Quacks Again as Chile Elects a New President

A half-century after it fed the Pinochet regime’s bonfire of heretical books, a celebrated “handbook of decolonization” has new relevance to a country on the brink of a momentous c...

Nov 22, 2021 / Ariel Dorfman

China America

Potential Legislation on China Amounts to a New Cold War Potential Legislation on China Amounts to a New Cold War

The $250 billion "Innovation and Competition Act" leverages industrial policy to ratchet up militarization and potentially instigate global conflict.

Nov 22, 2021 / Aída Chávez

Nation Poetry

On the Overnight from Agadir On the Overnight from Agadir

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Nov 22, 2021 / Poems / Charif Shanahan

The Green Bank telescope in West Virginia

Life in West Virginia’s “Quiet Zone” Life in West Virginia’s “Quiet Zone”

A recent book by journalist Stephen Kurczy examines what happens in a vast swath of the country where wireless signal is limited and carefully regulated.

Nov 22, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Evan Malmgren

America’s Decline Started at Home

America’s Decline Started at Home America’s Decline Started at Home

When will shifting geopolitics and climate change fully cripple Washington’s current world order?

Nov 22, 2021 / Alfred McCoy

Francia Marquez

Francia Márquez Mina Confronts Colombia’s “Politics of Death” Francia Márquez Mina Confronts Colombia’s “Politics of Death”

The first Black woman to run for president in Colombia has ignited a movement.

Nov 22, 2021 / Juan Mejia and Olivia Heffernan

Peng Shuai

Where Is Peng Shuai? And What Is the IOC Going to Do About It? Where Is Peng Shuai? And What Is the IOC Going to Do About It?

With the 2022 Beijing Olympics looming, the IOC’s silence in the case of a missing tennis star who accused a Chinese official of sexual assault speaks volumes.

Nov 20, 2021 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

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