![Colombian President Gustavo Petro looks on before the 2024 Colombia Independence Day Parade on July 20, 2024, in Bogotá.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gustavo-petro-colombia-getty.jpg)
It’s Hard to Be a Leftist Leader in Colombia It’s Hard to Be a Leftist Leader in Colombia
Since taking office in August 2022, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has pursued an ambitious agenda—with mixed results.
Aug 15, 2024 / Gabriel Hetland
![Project 2025, Going Backward](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1440_FEAT-10.jpg)
Project 2025, Going Backward Project 2025, Going Backward
Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller is trying to distance himself and his organization from Project 2025. (Painting inspired by Philip Guston’s KKK Paintings.)
Aug 15, 2024 / OppArt / Colleen Quinn
![A YouTube screenshot of a Kamala Harris meme.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Kamala-coconut_meme.jpg)
Can Harris and Walz Meme Their Way to the White House? Can Harris and Walz Meme Their Way to the White House?
The online jokes are not just about having fun. They represent a newfound political energy within the Democratic Party.
Aug 14, 2024 / Ginny Hogan
![Police officers clash with pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of California at Irvine on May 15, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/campusprotests.jpg)
Trump, the Military, and the Insurrection Act Trump, the Military, and the Insurrection Act
Will soldiers be occupying our cities?
Aug 14, 2024 / Michael T. Klare
![Never Trump](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1440_FEAT-8.jpg)
Never Trump Never Trump
Public interventions (street, bus shelter, subway car), New York City, 2024.
Aug 13, 2024 / OppArt / Maia Lorian
![From left, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and his wife, Gwen Walz, during a campaign event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, August. 6, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/harrisrally.jpg)
It’s Not About Harris “Moving to the Center” It’s Not About Harris “Moving to the Center”
Mobilizing and energizing the base is the priority, not to be scorned.
Aug 13, 2024 / Robert L. Borosage
![A section of empty seats at an event headlined by former president Donald Trump in Commerce, Georgia, on March 26, 2022.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/trump-rally-crowd-size-getty.jpg)
The True Source of Trump’s Delusions: The Gospel of Positive Thinking The True Source of Trump’s Delusions: The Gospel of Positive Thinking
Trump’s obsession with crowd sizes is part of his lifelong quest to prevent reality from blocking his path to success.
Aug 13, 2024 / Chris Lehmann
![A.J. Muste (left, seated) leading a class at Brookwood in 1925.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Judt-Brookwood-ftr.jpg)
To Build Working-Class Power, We Need a Workers’ Education Movement To Build Working-Class Power, We Need a Workers’ Education Movement
A century ago, labor colleges transformed American unions. It’s time to bring them back.
Aug 13, 2024 / Feature / Daniel Judt
![Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump holds an artwork of the assassination attempt, which he signed for the artist, during a campaign rally at the Georgia State University Convocation Center on August 3, in Atlanta.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/trump_rally_august3.jpg)
Why Donald Trump Can’t Let Go of Joe Biden Why Donald Trump Can’t Let Go of Joe Biden
The former president is caught in a nostalgia trap of his own making.
Aug 12, 2024 / Jeet Heer