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President Ronald Reagan shakes hands with Donald Trump in a reception line in the White House's Blue Room, Washington, DC. November 3, 1987.

A Warning About the Dangers of Executive Orders—From 40 Years Ago A Warning About the Dangers of Executive Orders—From 40 Years Ago

In 1983, as Ronald Reagan went on an executive-order spree, The Nation sounded the alarm about very kind of presidential overreach we’re seeing from Trump today.

Mar 7, 2025 / Richard Kreitner

Students staging a sit-in at Milstein Library on March 5.

Columbia Expelled Student Protesters For the First Time in Over 50 Years. But Activists Won’t Back Down. Columbia Expelled Student Protesters For the First Time in Over 50 Years. But Activists Won’t Back Down.

On March 5, protesters were arrested after dozens formed a sit-in at Milstein Library to demand the reinstatement of three expelled students.

Mar 7, 2025 / StudentNation / Lara-Nour Walton

Protesters rally outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Monday, March 3, 2025.

Trump’s Deadly Assault on Weather Reporting Trump’s Deadly Assault on Weather Reporting

I’m a meteorologist, and breaking NOAA would undermine journalists’ ability to cover the story our audiences care about most.

Mar 6, 2025 / David Dickson

Representative Al Green (D-TX) speaks during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

House Democrats’ Protest Whiplash House Democrats’ Protest Whiplash

Ten Democrats sided with the speaker’s censure of Representative Al Green. The shameful act was diminished by colleagues supporting him singing “We Shall Overcome” on the House fl...

Mar 6, 2025 / Joan Walsh

In this April 14, 1964, black-and-white file photo, a man holds a Confederate flag at right, as demonstrators, including one carrying a sign reading, “More than 300,000 Negroes are Denied Vote in Ala,” demonstrate in front of an Indianapolis hotel where then–Alabama Governor George Wallace was staying.

Trump’s Presidency Reminds Me of the Segregation and Jim Crow of My Youth Trump’s Presidency Reminds Me of the Segregation and Jim Crow of My Youth

The xenophobic, bigoted, and cruel policies of the Trump administration are bringing back traumatic memories of American racism and all the nightmares that went with it.

Mar 6, 2025 / Douglas H. White

La Paloma de las Paz

La Paloma de las Paz La Paloma de las Paz

Bird flew.

Mar 6, 2025 / OppArt / Tomás Serrano

Donald Trump greets Chief Justice John Roberts as he arrives to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on March 4, 2025.

The Supreme Court Just Ruled Against Trump—but Don’t Get Too Excited The Supreme Court Just Ruled Against Trump—but Don’t Get Too Excited

Even as the court rejected Trump’s freeze on USAID, it effectively gave him another chance to delay sending life-saving money abroad.

Mar 6, 2025 / Elie Mystal

Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza?

Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza? Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza?

The fight inside the historical profession heats up.

Mar 6, 2025 / Van Gosse

Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) applaud as US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025.

Trump Left No Doubt That He and Musk Are Coming for Social Security Trump Left No Doubt That He and Musk Are Coming for Social Security

Democrats should be shouting from the rooftops about the threat to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Mar 6, 2025 / John Nichols

Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game

Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game

The artist’s installation at MOMA PS1 is not just a public work of art in the form of a playground but also a comment on postcolonial architecture and experimental pedagogy.

Mar 6, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Will Fenstermaker

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