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“I Live in a Gray Area”: Being a Trans High School Student Without Support “I Live in a Gray Area”: Being a Trans High School Student Without Support

As a transgender minor with deeply conservative parents, I’m unable to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria. But I still ​​​found my name and community.

Apr 19, 2023 / StudentNation / Spencer Katz

Former President Donald Trump waves from the steps of Air Force One

The Surprisingly Durable Myth of Donald Trump, Anti-Imperialist The Surprisingly Durable Myth of Donald Trump, Anti-Imperialist

The Establishment focus on personal scandals helps cover up the former president’s reckless belligerence.

Apr 17, 2023 / Jeet Heer

A pro-choice activist during a protest in New York City

The GOP’s Fanatical Judges Are Putting Our Lives in Danger The GOP’s Fanatical Judges Are Putting Our Lives in Danger

Recent rulings on Obamacare and abortion show a judiciary that is willing to imperil the lives of millions in pursuit of its radical agenda.

Apr 13, 2023 / Gregg Gonsalves

Students protesting gun violence make their way through the state capitol in Nashville on April 3, 2023

Is a New Civil Rights Movement Taking Hold in Nashville? Is a New Civil Rights Movement Taking Hold in Nashville?

We see the work of John Lewis and Diane Nash in the multiracial movement behind Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. Simplistic comparisons are dangerous. Hope is not.

Apr 11, 2023 / Joan Walsh

Associate US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on October 7, 2022.

Clarence Thomas Doesn’t Have to Be Bribed to Shred Basic Rights and Democracy Clarence Thomas Doesn’t Have to Be Bribed to Shred Basic Rights and Democracy

Thomas probably didn’t change any of his votes after island-hopping with Harlan Crow, but that doesn’t make the jaunts any less troubling.

Apr 11, 2023 / Elie Mystal

A patient rests in a corridor waiting for a room at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in California on January 3, 2021.

Why Do the Richest Americans Live a Decade Longer Than the Poorest? Why Do the Richest Americans Live a Decade Longer Than the Poorest?

Falling life expectancy is no accident—it is a direct result, and failure, of policy.

Apr 11, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, presides during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on what Republicans say is the politicization of the FBI and Justice Department and attacks on American civil liberties on March 9, 2023.

Representative Jim Jordan’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Hearings Representative Jim Jordan’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Hearings

The Ohio representative’s debut in the scandal business represents a considerable falling off from the party of Joseph McCarthy and Henry Hyde.

Apr 11, 2023 / Francis Wilkinson

Scott Walker campaigning for Senate candidate Leah Vukmir in 2018

Wisconsin Is Finally Coming Out of Its Scott Walker Nightmare Wisconsin Is Finally Coming Out of Its Scott Walker Nightmare

The ex-governor seems terrified that the state’s recent elections could threaten the conservative domination he helped create—and he should be.

Apr 11, 2023 / John Nichols

Harlan Crow

Clarence Thomas’s Rich Friend Collects: Judges, Politicians—and Nazi Memorabilia Clarence Thomas’s Rich Friend Collects: Judges, Politicians—and Nazi Memorabilia

Texas billionaire Harlan Crow is a modern-day Charles Foster Kane.

Apr 10, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Former “Science and Health” editor Nicholas Wade, Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Paul G. Auwaerter, and former US Center for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert Redfield swear before House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about Investigating the Origins of Covid 19.

Exclusive: A House Subcommittee Releases Key Documents on the Pandemic Origin Paper Exclusive: A House Subcommittee Releases Key Documents on the Pandemic Origin Paper

The documents, released to The Nation, formed the basis of a memo made public before the subcommittee’s first hearing on the origin of Covid-19.

Apr 10, 2023 / Jimmy Tobias

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