For his friends, Donald Trump provides protection from the law; for his enemies, punishment. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The people most harmed by ecological violence are underrepresented in stories about climate change. That’s why our new podcast with @counterstream.bsky.social and powered by Wildseeds Fund exists. Read our latest op-ed from podcast host @shilpichhotray.bsky.social.

Dave Zirin argues that the NFL is not a bystander in the United States' slide into autocracy but an aggravator. NFL owners overwhelmingly back the Trump regime.

The climate movement has blind spots, and they line up with the blind spots of our democracy, writes @shilpichhotray.bsky.social. That's why we're launching the podcast A People's Climate.

Just back from Dublin where the NFL is set to invade this Sunday. Wrote about the scene and why the people aren’t thrilled with the league’s political and economic message www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My Nation column on the totalitarian implications of Trump demanding of AG Bondi that she prosecute his political opponents NOW and of Bondi not immediately resigning in response. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Billionaires won't save us from the climate crisis. What will? People power. Introducing A People’s Climate, a new podcast by @counterstream.bsky.social & The Nation, hosted by Shilpi Chhotray. Coming 9/27! https://www.thenation.com/podcast/environment/introducing-a-peoples-climate/

We were just getting around to tearing down Confederate Monuments that both glorified the American slavocracy and served as a warning and reminder of continued white dominance. Now we are erecting new Confederate Monuments. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My militantly de-woked alma mater, which Charlie Kirk did not attend, might erect a statue to him, for the same reasons that Sinclair media will be airing a memorial for him tonight on local stations nationwide: Because fuck you, that's why.

" So you took Belgium? Better than nothing." A fun palate cleanser www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I wrote about Bolsonaro's conviction, the symbology of a woman casting the deciding vote, and how the US should try to stamp out anti-democratic action: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Billionaires won't save us from the climate crisis. What will? People power. Introducing A People’s Climate, a new podcast by @counterstream.bsky.social & The Nation, hosted by Shilpi Chhotray. Coming 9/27! https://www.thenation.com/podcast/environment/introducing-a-peoples-climate/

Instead of serving as a place of free inquiry, New College exists to generate agitprop: recreating the sensation of being confronted by "Debate Me, Bro" and "someone on the internet sending you a picture of your house," but with something like accreditation.

This is the first rodeo for a lot of people currently under threat for having dared to criticize Charlie Kirk, even while condemning the violence against him. Here’s some advice for trying to surviving it from someone who’s been here before.

A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats. So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

At least two out-of-state abortion pill providers @themap-crhc.bsky.social and @hersafeharbor.bsky.social tell me they are undeterred in the face of a new Texas law that allows citizens to sue them and others. "We refuse to comply with cruelty disguised as law." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Billionaires won't save us from the climate crisis. What will? People power. Introducing A People’s Climate, a new podcast by @counterstream_media & The Nation hosted by Shilpi Chhotray & powered by Wildseeds Fund 🗓️ Coming 9/27! Subscribe. https://tinyurl.com/apeoplesclimate

"We refuse to comply with cruelty disguised as law,” says Debra Lynch, founder of Her Safe Harbor, a Delaware-based abortion telehealth provider. "HB 7 is an intimidation tactic, not a reflection of the reality of people’s needs."

Trump’s authoritarian playbook was written in New York real estate, where racism and greed built his empire. Now Zohran Mamdani threatens that empire with socialist housing reforms, setting up a battle of profit versus people.

Five years ago I went undercover and met a bunch of guys who love Hitler at Turning Point USA.

For @thenation.com: I reviewed @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI and took a closer look at her argument that OpenAI’s "scaling laws" echo the expansionist ideologies of European empires. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

For @thenation.com: While Texas officials wage a battle against New York's abortion shield law and welcome a law to block abortion medication access, out-of-state providers that send pills to Texans like @hersafeharbor.bsky.social tell me they will not back down: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Bread & Roses. What a great conversation (and what a great reminder). www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"How do you deal with 500,000 youth coming into the labor market every year?" www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Remarkable conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani about what it means to be a mayor and how cities can lead in the struggle for economic and social and racial justice. Full video here:

"To applaud those making the long-foretold pivot for their moral courage is not only unnecessary but perverse; they are, at best, joining a coalition built by the people they insulted, scorned, and in some cases called for arresting when their words counted most." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Read/watch the full conversation at @thenation.com

Visual literacy doesn't just help us avoid being “duped” by AI images, Morgan Barrie writes. There is value in thinking critically about the images we see, “with the knowledge that, just out of frame, something lingers that could change the entire narrative.” www.thenation.com/article/arch...

"The Democratic establishment in Washington abounds with people who faced no meaningful consequences for their disastrous judgment in the early 2000s, and who have gone on to exercise even more disastrous judgment in the 2020s" www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said of Streeting's focus on private health sector spending: “That switch towards the private sector is a real death blow to the NHS if it carries on." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The social order that bends to a tyrant’s will becomes a world of people only concerned with their own private needs, who sulk apart in fear and loneliness, and are unable to act in concert—that is to say, act politically. And that suits Trump, the tyrant, just fine.

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration lost no time in shaping his martyr narrative, writes Sasha Abramsky. In coordinated tirades, Trump officials have blamed a leftist cabal for political violence. This is, of course, bunkum.

Karen Hao’s recent book on OpenAI argues that its ambitions are not merely about scale or the market but the creation of a global force that rivals a colonial power of old.

In interests of historical accuracy, as Trump's regime plans crackdown on progressive movements in wake of Kirk murder, my Nation column recaps times in recent past when rightwingers, led by Trump, have goaded people to violence and/or supported it after the fact. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, "it was a better career move to be wrong at the time and apologize later, if ever. This crisis of accountability has haunted US foreign policy ever since." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Large union-led protests and strikes are expected tomorrow in France in rejection of Emmanuel Macron. My latest for @thenation.com on the French crisis and Macron's dwindling options: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Judith Butler's response to their name being turned over to the federal government by UC Berkeley as part of a Trump administration antisemitism investigation is well worth reading: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Glad Butler shared this with @thenation.com. You should read it.

"They’re young, energetic, and aggressive on social media, and they talk a big game about intergenerational change. But nobody should be fooled. ...

David Klion writes in @thenation.com that in light of today's UN report, liberals must atone for their two years of complicity in Israel's genocide www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Jeffries agonistes: my latest for @thenation.com thenation.com/article/politics/hakeem-jeffries-zohran-mamdani/?nc=1

it’s super weird to me that a bunch of people on twitter have been talking about how the nation is like a “sensible liberal” magazine, bro it’s probably the single most important left wing progressive outlet in american history. like idk this kind of thing isn’t being published in nyt or wapo

Brilliant letter!

I think many might be surprised to find such a clear and direct piece of rhetoric, appealing to putatively common liberal principles of justice, written by Judith Butler

My latest for @thenation.com is an interview with veteran Nepali journalist Kunda Dixit about the stunning turn of events there in the past week. Did Nepal just have a revolution? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Wen Stephenson spoke with @kundadixit.bsky.social, the founder of the Nepali Times, about the the unrest in Nepal: What is unfolding? What are the underlying causes? And what is the broader context?

A look at the new crop of Mamdani imitators who are trying to copy his style, but don't have his substance.

Judith Butler's response to UC Berkeley forwarding her name among 160 others the federal government without due process as someone allegedly involved in an incident of antisemitism is wonderful. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A smart Judith Butler response to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.