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The Catastrophic Moral Failing of Those Who Won’t Condemn Hamas The Catastrophic Moral Failing of Those Who Won’t Condemn Hamas

October 12, 2023 The Catastrophic Moral Failing of Those Who Won’t Condemn Hamas Israel’s oppression of Palestinians is an atrocity. So was Hamas’s massacre of civilians—and anyone…

Oct 12, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky

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Aging in America Shouldn’t Be This Hard Aging in America Shouldn’t Be This Hard

Why should capital take any interest in people who are no longer a source of profit?

Oct 12, 2023 / Rebecca Gordon

Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) enters the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.

Omar and Tlaib Are Condemned in the US for Saying What Prominent Israelis Are Saying Omar and Tlaib Are Condemned in the US for Saying What Prominent Israelis Are Saying

The White House is ripping Squad members for proposing de-escalation and diplomacy to stop the killing of Israelis and Palestinians.

Oct 12, 2023 / John Nichols

Celebrate Equity!

Celebrate Equity! Celebrate Equity!

Street art in Cambridge Mass. Photo by Peter Kuper.

Oct 12, 2023 / OppArt / Anonymous

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks to reporters at a press conference on government funding in the U.S. Capitol on September 29, 2023.

Democrats Can Win Big in 2024. But They Have to Fight for It. Democrats Can Win Big in 2024. But They Have to Fight for It.

Republican chaos may help Democrats some in 2024. But if they want to win, they really need to help themselves.

Oct 12, 2023 / John Nichols for The Nation

Israeli soldier at border near Gaza

The Catastrophe of October 7. Why Did It Happen? The Catastrophe of October 7. Why Did It Happen?

Where do we go from here?

Oct 12, 2023 / Hillel Schenker

family, two adults and a baby, marching in climate strike new york city

Lefty Groups Making It Possible for Families to Do Politics Lefty Groups Making It Possible for Families to Do Politics

From Comrades with Kids to Red Sprouts, millennials find new ways of support.

Oct 12, 2023 / Raina Lipsitz

Union members picket outside a General Motors facility in Langhorne, Pa., Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike.)

The UAW’s Historic Victory—Plus, Elon Musk and American Democracy The UAW’s Historic Victory—Plus, Elon Musk and American Democracy

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harold Meyerson analyzes the auto strike, and David Nasaw talks about Tesla and Twitter.

Oct 12, 2023 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

Chief Medical Examiner of Webb County, Dr. Corinne Stern’s autopsy assistant moves the body of an unidentified migrant to the autopsy room in Laredo, Tex., on October 12, 2022.

When There’s No One to Attend to the Dead When There’s No One to Attend to the Dead

How one small change to Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure created a cascade of problems for the state’s capacity to investigate death.

Oct 12, 2023 / Caroline Tracey

Demonstrators gather to show their solidarity with Palestine despite Austrian Police prohibiting the gathering on October 11, 2023, in Vienna, Austria.

Things In Palestine May Never Be the Same Again Things In Palestine May Never Be the Same Again

The conflict has shattered many myths about Israel's invincibility—and shown once more that the only lasting solution is true equality for all.

Oct 12, 2023 / Saree Makdisi

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