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Demonstrators with signs stand around the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard after a rally was held against President Donald Trump's attacks on Harvard University.

Harvard Stands Up Harvard Stands Up

Very real pain is about to be inflicted on students, staff, researchers, and faculty. At least for now, most of the people here are willing to bear that price.

Apr 18, 2025 / Richard Parker

US President Donald Trump, center right, and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, center left, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2025.

Trump, Bukele, and the Growing Assault on the Rule of Law Trump, Bukele, and the Growing Assault on the Rule of Law

What's going on here fits the description of “fascism” to a tee.

Apr 18, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Nation Poetry

Dialogues (Against God) Dialogues (Against God)

Apr 18, 2025 / Poems / Jennifer Chang

An image of President Donald Trump looms over crowds of supporters before his speech from the Ellipse at the White House on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.

Trump’s Deranged Land Grabs Would Make Sense to Big Brother Trump’s Deranged Land Grabs Would Make Sense to Big Brother

His desire for ultimate continental hegemony is leading us on a path eerily reminiscent of 1984.

Apr 17, 2025 / Alfred McCoy

Eggflation

Eggflation Eggflation

Egg prices skyrocketed to more than $12 a dozen in certain regions of the country. Is America great again?

Apr 17, 2025 / OppArt / Martha Lewis

Pro-Palestinian activists rally for Mohsen Mahdawi and protest against deportations outside of ICE Headquarters on April 15, 2025 in New York City.

Trump’s War on the Palestine Movement Is Something Entirely New Trump’s War on the Palestine Movement Is Something Entirely New

Never before has a government repressed its citizens’ free speech and academic freedom so brutally in order to protect an entirely different country.

Apr 17, 2025 / Saree Makdisi

Alexander Smirnov (center) outside a Las Vegas federal courthouse last year.

A Disgraced Hunter Biden Informant Had Ties to Trump Social Media Bid A Disgraced Hunter Biden Informant Had Ties to Trump Social Media Bid

Alexander Smirnov, whose case is now under review by Trump’s Justice Department, had a stake in the firm that lost out to Truth Social in the rush to launch a Trump-branded platfo...

Apr 17, 2025 / Jacqueline Sweet

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a roundtable meeting on adolescent safety with creators of the television show Adolescence, and Sarah Simpkin from the Children's Society on March 31, 2025, in London, United Kingdom.

The Creator of “Adolescence” Backs a Social Media Ban for Kids—but It’s the Wrong Move The Creator of “Adolescence” Backs a Social Media Ban for Kids—but It’s the Wrong Move

Although the dangers young people face online are all too clear, the solution is pragmatism, not prohibition.

Apr 17, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define

Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define Trade, Monopoly, and the Fight We Can’t Let Trump Define

Tariffs and trade are not side issues, but a central front in the battle against monopoly power—and for self-government.

Apr 17, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout

A Palestinian woman carrying her child in her arms cries in front of a building destroyed in Israel's attack on the Bureij Refugee Camp on September 19, 2024.

‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’ ‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’

Dispatches from Gaza on surviving a year of genocide.

Apr 17, 2025 / Lujayn, Mohammed R. Mhawish, Ahmed Abu Artema, and Hani Almadhoun

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