![A firefighter monitors the spread of the Auto Fire in Oxnard, North West of Los Angeles, California, on January 13, 2025.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-2193292565.jpg)
It’s Time to Rethink Everything About How We Fight Fires It’s Time to Rethink Everything About How We Fight Fires
The LA disaster is a wake-up call: Our firefighting playbook was written for a world that no longer exists. We need a new approach, and we need it now.
Jan 14, 2025 / Lazo Gitchos
![Billie Allen, an artist and writer who has maintained his innocence since being sentenced to death in a sham trial more than 25 years ago.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Billie-Allen-photo-headshot.jpg)
An Appeal to President Biden: Pardon Billie Allen An Appeal to President Biden: Pardon Billie Allen
Biden’s decision to commute Allen’s death sentence deserves praise and gratitude, but the president should go even further—and free an innocent man.
Jan 14, 2025 / Yusef Salaam
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The Nation’s Early Experiments in Jazz The Nation’s Early Experiments in Jazz
When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to catch the beat.
Jan 14, 2025 / Richard Kreitner
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Letters From the February 2025 Issue Letters From the February 2025 Issue
Systemic failure… Industry capture…
Jan 14, 2025 / Our Readers
![A Listener’s Guide to Jazz From 1964–1972](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Iverson-Slugs-records.jpg)
A Listener’s Guide to Jazz From 1964–1972 A Listener’s Guide to Jazz From 1964–1972
A selection of the best recorded examples of the otherwise mostly undocumented music heard in jazz clubs like Slugs’.
Jan 14, 2025 / Feature / Ethan Iverson
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Jazz Off the Record Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were ...
Jan 14, 2025 / Feature / Ethan Iverson
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Fady Joudah’s Poetry of Dislocation Fady Joudah’s Poetry of Dislocation
In his new book of poetry, […], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestinians’ experiences of exile and displacement—and the difficulty of healing amid the ongoing Nak...
Jan 14, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Hussein Omar
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Israeli Domestic Politics Israeli Domestic Politics
On this episode of American Prestige, Udi Greenberg on the state of politics within Israel.
Jan 14, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison