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Palestine protest

Protecting Pro-Palestine Activists Can Feel Almost Impossible—but These Students Succeeded Protecting Pro-Palestine Activists Can Feel Almost Impossible—but These Students Succeeded

When a lawyer tried to force UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine to publicize the names of their speakers at a 2018 conference, the students fought back. And won.

Mar 16, 2021 / StudentNation / Lex McMenamin

Andrew Cuomo

Why Andrew Cuomo Must Resign Why Andrew Cuomo Must Resign

There is no investigation that can give New Yorkers a governor we can trust not to abuse power and lie.

Mar 16, 2021 / Zephyr Teachout for The Nation

Nevada Power Lines

Infrastructure Could Be the Great Economic Equalizer Infrastructure Could Be the Great Economic Equalizer

If only the Biden administration and Congress had the fortitude and foresight to make it happen.

Mar 16, 2021 / Nomi Prins

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

A Zoom Call With Destiny A Zoom Call With Destiny

A glimpse of the future and lessons for the present.

Mar 16, 2021 / Tom Tomorrow

John Wieners Poet 1966

The Altered States of John Wieners The Altered States of John Wieners

In his letters we can glimpse a radiant, jazz-struck testament to the vocation of poetry.

Mar 16, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Lybarger

Rent Graffiti

My Family Has Covid, and We’re Days Away From an Eviction My Family Has Covid, and We’re Days Away From an Eviction

The US government has shrugged off millions of people like me.

Mar 16, 2021 / Cassandra Conrad

Nation Poetry

The Sentence The Sentence

In the gospel according to children Love is a sentence containing a logic no syntax can trace— Mom throwing parties just to ruin them, Dad blaming everyone but himself. You remembe…

Mar 16, 2021 / Poems / Rob Schlegel

Democrat Stacey Abrams, walks on Senate floor before of members of Georgia's Electoral College cast their votes at the state Capitol, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool)

Stacey Abrams Knew Another Round of Attacks on Voting Was Coming Stacey Abrams Knew Another Round of Attacks on Voting Was Coming

Georgia Republicans’ conclusions from 2020: Too many Democrats voted. So their focus is on keeping them from voting, by any means necessary.

Mar 16, 2021 / Joan Walsh

It’s Past Time for Congress to Permanently Demilitarize Our Police

It’s Past Time for Congress to Permanently Demilitarize Our Police It’s Past Time for Congress to Permanently Demilitarize Our Police

Our communities are not looking to simply revert back to the Obama-era. We don’t want people to live in fear in their own neighborhoods.

Mar 15, 2021 / Representative Hank Johnson and Yasmine Taeb

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Photo via AP)

The Republicans’ Road Not Taken The Republicans’ Road Not Taken

In 2013, Republican strategists were honest about why Mitt Romney lost. They had a chance to heed the lessons—and then Trump blew it all up.

Mar 15, 2021 / Jon Wiener

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