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1Sep 12, '25Charlie Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was mo551×30.1M332k50k29k
2Nov 22, '23The Harvard Law Review refused to run this piece about genocide in Gaza. The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article 144×7.9M22k10k3.8k
3Dec 4, '23Netanyahu is shopping around a proposal to US Congressional leaders to “thin out” Gaza’s population and expel the surviving residents into neighboring countries.116×6.4M5.4k3.2k1.4k
4Nov 17, '23Israeli security forces have admitted to deliberately threatening and outing queer Palestinians as a tactic to intimidate them into working as informants.64.7×3.5M15k6.1k2.6k
5Sep 13, '25Charlier Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was m41.7×2.3M75k11k3.7k
6Jan 7, '21“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”30.4×026k13k2.5k
7Dec 7, '23Israel has targeted courthouses, universities, and legislative halls. It has razed orchards, farmland, and greenhouses. @adamjohnsonCHI writes asks: Does any of this sound like a “21.8×1.2M4.5k2.1k433
8Jul 27, '18A "tender age" six-year-old girl was forced to sign this document after being sexually abused in an immigrant detention center while separated from her mother.21.2×013k15k288
9Oct 27, '23The Nation is heartbroken by the news that an Israeli airstrike has seriously injured poet & journalist Ahmed Abu Artema and killed his young son. In his most recent piece, he 16.9×922k5.8k2.9k338
10Mar 25, '23An investigative report reveals an elaborate covert operation originating in Israel that aimed to use secret intelligence to clandestinely intervene at the highest levels in the 2016.3×891k2.1k1.1k482
11Jul 26, '2488,000 students were supposed to graduate in Gaza this year. Instead, they have found themselves trapped in hell, with their futures up in the air. Here are some of their stories.14.5×790k2.5k1.7k357
12Jan 24, '24"I have no choice but to continue to speak up, no matter how many times they want to censure me, police me, vilify me," @RashidaTlaib tells us in an exclusive interview.11×599k2.1k377112
13Mar 20, '24Dozens of prominent Jewish Americans—including Judith Butler, Tony Kushner, Elliott Gould, Deborah Eisenberg, Molly Crabapple, Ariel Dorfman, and more—have signed an open letter op10.3×565k2.9k775250
14Dec 19, '23Biden’s close alliance with Israel has been a lodestar of his work in foreign policy. During Israel’s 1982 war with Lebanon, he went so far as to claim that women and children woul10.2×559k1.8k835306
15Feb 13, '19By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal.10.0×016k3.1k64
16Oct 25, '24Kamala Harris has failed to differentiate her policies from Joe Biden’s blank-check support for genocide, write @nationinterns. As such, they argue she should not have received The9.9×540k3.1k721244
17Oct 13, '23Make no mistake: the Israeli government is using genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians. We as Jews know all too well how dangerous this rhetoric is, the way in which the unthinka9.6×524k2.8k966152
18Nov 27, '23In 1984, Edward Said wrote a landmark essay, “Permission to Narrate,” in which he critiqued the Western media’s biased coverage of Israel-Palestine. Now @m7mdkurd picks up where Sa9.5×517k3.5k1.6k1.1k
19Mar 2, '20We have an announcement!9.3×018k3k52
20Nov 22, '17Alec Raeshawn Smith, age 26, was found dead in his apartment on June 27. He was rationing his insulin after he aged out of his parent’s insurance coverage.9.1×06.1k7.2k2
21Mar 18, '20Student debt cancellation would boost GDP by up to $108 billion a year and would add up to 1.5 million jobs per year.8.9×011k4.7k280
22Jun 4, '21AMLO Has Been a Disappointment to the World—For Mexico, He’s Been Far Worse8.3×09.9k4.9k143
23Jun 20, '25Many of the world's most famous economists say that Zohran Mamdani's economic policies are cost responsible and form a coherent agenda that rejects austerity and embraces the city’8.2×445k3.6k705185
24Oct 28, '24MLK’s daughter writes: A vote for Kamala Harris is not an endorsement of US funding for the war. It does not mean you are forsaking your right to protest her actions and policies. 8.1×444k7.8k2.1k218
25Aug 5, '24Transphobia doesn't just harm trans people. It hurts cisgender women who don’t conform to a narrow, Eurocentric vision of womanhood.8.0×436k2.8k518174
26Dec 7, '23Israel is engaging in massive population transfers and attempting to depopulate Gaza, @adamjohnsonCHI writes, and everything it does must be understood through this lens.7.8×425k1.7k866228
27Sep 13, '25There is no requirement to take part in the campaign to whitewash Charlie Kirk’s reputation, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obi7.8×423k13k1.7k760
28Jul 14, '24Political violence is abhorrent. But, as Trump and his supporters work to shape yesterday’s vile assassination attempt into a martyr narrative, let us not forget that he has been t7.1×390k8.6k3.3k415
29Aug 18, '21Texas Republicans have voted to remove Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream”speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” from Texas social stu6.9×04k3.2k348
30Jul 11, '25The results are in, and it's now official: Zohran Mamdani won more votes than any NYC Democratic mayoral primary candidate ever.6.6×358k16k3k327
31Jun 12, '23What made this overnight normalization of white supremacy possible? In their zeal to ignore anything negative about our Ukrainian allies, Western media has decided that a neo-Nazi 5.9×324k3.4k1.4k299
32Aug 1, '20Recent polling found that Medicare for All is supported by 69% of all Americans.5.9×07.9k2.1k115
33Jan 14, '16We rarely do this—only twice before in 150 years—but today we endorse Bernie Sanders for president:5.2×05.7k4k1
34Mar 2, '20We are proud to endorse @BernieSanders for president—again! The democratic socialist is the only candidate with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges o4.5×08.2k1.7k22
35Oct 8, '20The citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh never voted to be the subjects of Ilham Aliyev’s despotic rule, nor his persecution. They were never part of an independent Azerbaijan. They are ju4.2×02.9k3k34
36May 13, '24Men and boys in Gaza have repeatedly testified about the sexual assault and abuse they endured while in Israeli custody. But, writes @iii_rame, their stories haven't received nearl3.6×198k2.7k1.8k358
37Oct 15, '16Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All.3.6×02.8k3k0
38Dec 4, '1849 years ago today, Fred Hampton was killed by the FBI. In 1976, The Nation published a report on the civil trial that followed, revealing details of COINTELPRO and the gruesome pl3.5×03.6k2.5k201
39Oct 15, '16On Monday, Amy Goodman will turn herself in to police in Mandan, North Dakota. Her crime—journalism.3.5×02.2k3k0
40Jun 20, '25Leading economists argue that Zohran Mamdani's mayoral platform is a bold yet practical blueprint to tackle some of New York City’s most urgent challenges—above all, the cost of li3.4×185k3.1k639137
41Feb 29, '24Mitch McConnell invariably put party ahead of country and did more long-term damage to American democracy than any senator in modern US history, @NicholsUprising writes.3.4×184k1.4k38745
42Sep 18, '21By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal.3.3×07.2k50432
43Nov 2, '23“We cannot in good conscience fund the bombing of Palestinian civilians, including children,” writes Superbowl champion Michael Bennett. “They are all people, all humans.”3.1×170k2.5k56153
44Aug 24, '21Turns out the Koch network bankrolled the astroturf backlash against teaching kids about racism.3.1×03.1k1.4k289
45Oct 29, '21Turns out the Koch network bankrolled the astroturf backlash against teaching kids about racism.3.1×03.1k1.6k231
46Nov 10, '19Single black women aged 36–49, on average, have a net worth of $5, while single white women in the same age group have a net worth of nearly $42,000.2.9×02.9k1.7k214
47Apr 14, '17The data is out: Americans voted for Trump for this reason.2.8×01.7k1.4k2
48Sep 14, '21For too long Palestinian voices have been silenced. The Nation is proud to have brought Mohammed el-Kurd on as Palestine correspondent.2.7×04.8k87062
49Sep 13, '23Congress opted to impoverish kids. Or, to be more precise, Republicans and a handful of Democratic allies chose to increase poverty when they rejected efforts by the Biden administ2.6×143k1.7k77831
50Jul 25, '25Hulk Hogan was an expression of our national decay, writes Dave Zirin. He was a racist, Trump-supporting, anti-union mass of steroids in spandex.2.6×143k4.1k969209
51Nov 20, '23View post on X2.6×139k1.6k66564
52Oct 13, '21Student debt cancellation would boost annual GDP by up to $108 billion per year.2.4×03.3k88887
53Feb 24, '20Elizabeth Warren Is the First Intersectional Candidate for President2.4×01.8k47285
54Aug 31, '21"This country hasn’t seen this kind of dystopian legal bullshit since Salem." — @ElieNYC2.4×02.7k1.3k125
55Jan 24, '20"Sanders is uniquely ready to beat Trump because he embodies the opposite of Trumpism."2.3×04.3k81529
56May 23, '20China is moving to quash dissent in Hong Kong—without consulting the city's lawmakers. What does this mean for the protest movement?2.3×01.9k1.9k4
57Sep 13, '25Some of the people valorizing Kirk insist that all of his toxicity was acceptable because at least he was open to debate–a bar so low it’s you’d have to dig into the Mariana Trench2.2×121k5.2k665274
58May 24, '20The history of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement is a history of heartbreak.2.2×01.9k1.9k11
59Sep 15, '25The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division.2.1×117k5.3k904223
60Apr 21, '17300,000 registered voters in Wisconsin lacked strict voter ID—Trump won the state by 27,000 votes.2.1×01.6k1.8k0
61Apr 3, '17Bernie Sanders Just Introduced His Free College Tuition Plan2.1×03k1.1k0
62Jul 15, '24Getting shot does not ennoble the target or transform victims into moral leaders.2.1×112k1.6k36846
63Mar 11, '24Jonathan Glazer was actually reclaiming his culture from the pampered pro-Israel media prizefighters who argue that Judaism and Zionism are one and the same. To call out this lie i2.0×111k2.4k561108
64Oct 25, '22The Nation has learned that Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, has died after a long struggle with esophageal cancer. @JonWiener1, a friend and co-author1.9×02.1k867127
65Dec 28, '17"A child born into poverty has almost no chance of getting out of poverty in today’s United States, statistically."1.7×01.5k1.4k1
66Oct 21, '20Following the debates, Democratic support for a fracking ban dropped an eye-popping 16 points, from 65% to 49%.1.7×01.5k34451
67Jan 15, '20CNN’s treatment of Sanders raises a major problem that he’s going to have to confront going forward: major players in the mainstream media are clearly unafraid to be cover him in a1.7×02.8k68534
68Mar 2, '20We still believe that Biden would be a uniquely weak challenger to Trump, forfeiting the high ground on corruption, the Iraq War, and even #MeToo while being forced to defend his r1.6×02.6k77320
69May 30, '25Another New York is possible, and so The Nation is urging New Yorkers to rank Zohran Mamdani as their first choice and Brad Lander as their second. Mamdani has demonstrated his com1.6×89k3k39851
70Oct 31, '16Bernie Sanders wants Election Day to be a holiday, which would dramatically increase turnout.1.6×02.1k9710
71Nov 22, '21Meet the first Black woman to run for president in Colombia1.6×02.6k74729
72Sep 29, '24Blinken’s unwillingness to be honest about the famine in Gaza is a particularly glaring example of Biden’s delusional and dishonest foreign policy.1.5×84k1.9k60774
73Jul 10, '20Joe Kennedy III Hired a Cop to Advise Him on Race and Justice1.5×02.7k42344
74Mar 9, '20We are proud to endorse @BernieSanders for president—again! The democratic socialist is the only candidate with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges o1.5×02.8k5995
75Jul 17, '20Exclusive: A CBP spokesman tells @kenklippenstein that CBP agents were responsible for the arrest of the Portland arrest of a protestor widely seen on social media.1.5×01.6k89770
76Sep 20, '21Kyrsten Sinema—a sitting senator earning a taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000—took a paid internship at a winery last summer. It wasn't even in her state.1.5×02k54180
77Aug 29, '17Everyone’s a Socialist After a Natural Disaster1.4×01.7k9170
78May 20, '19Bernie Sanders's education platform calls for: ✅ Desegregation ✅ Massive federal investment ✅ Funding special education ✅ Raising teacher salaries to at least $60,000 year ✅ Univer1.4×02.3k64023
79Mar 24, '18"81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump—more than voted for George W. Bush, an actual evangelical—and now everyone is laughing at them. It’s about time."1.4×01.7k71419
80Jan 25, '19Black children have their side of the story too, but they don’t get to go on the Today Show and explain their actions, because they are dead.1.4×02k76416
81Mar 24, '20After the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 came a general strike. Just sayin!1.4×01.8k77180
82Jul 29, '17Jimmy Carter Calls for Single Payer1.4×01.9k7920
84Jun 6, '25Zohran Mamdani is running a modern version of Fiorello La Guardia’s 1930s NYC mayoral campaigns: with bold plans to make the city humane and functional; multilingual appeals to the1.4×75k2.7k397159
85Sep 8, '21We are thrilled to welcome Mohammed el-Kurd to The Nation as our first ever Palestine Correspondent.1.3×02.2k40821
86Jun 1, '20"If Trump had a brain, even if it was 99 percent cynical, he would come out and say something to unify people. But he doesn’t care about bringing people together. Even now. That’s 1.3×01.7k67622
87Mar 5, '20"I was shocked to hear the 2020 Democratic front-runner tell me to my face to vote for Trump, simply because I pressed him on a question about basic dignity for immigrants."1.2×01.6k68733
88Mar 14, '20There’s too much at stake to let establishment Democrats lead us down the road of failure by selling Joe Biden as safe. He’s not.1.2×01.9k59219
89Jun 9, '17Polls now show that more Americans support impeaching Trump than approve of his presidency.1.2×01.4k7750
90Oct 2, '20Biden Needs to Stop Talking Down Bernie Sanders and Medicare for All1.2×02k44314
91Mar 26, '25Columbia expelled student and union president @grantdminer over his pro-Palestine activism. Today, Grant is speaking out—and making it clear that he and everyone else targeted by t1.1×61k1.8k59494
92Feb 10, '19By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal.1.1×01.5k4576
93Mar 13, '20Trump offers nothing but bigotry, ignorance, and pathological narcissism.1.0×01.6k50711
94May 7, '20"There’s so much misery in the world, but we’re investing in nuclear weapons and in missile systems, and we don’t talk about trying to move toward a world of peace." — @BernieSande1.0×01.9k38117
95May 7, '24With "Hind's Hall," writes @EdgeofSports, Macklemore is staring at the artistic world, saying “The students are risking it all. Where are you?”1.0×55k1.7k46759
96Jun 23, '20A congressional staffer told @kenklippenstein that Rep. Eliot Engel tried to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of her committee assignment.1.0×01.5k36536
97Mar 2, '20May the "Nation Bump" propel you to victory, @SenSanders1.0×01.9k3664
98Feb 22, '21The lavish pleasures of @contrapoints.1.0×02.2k14576
99May 1, '25Scientists are starting to document and estimate the toll of death and suffering that will now be a part of Trump’s legacy. It is vast.0.9×49k2.3k1.3k186
100Jan 8, '20We're thrilled to announce that @kenklippenstein is joining our team as our new DC Correspondent. Welcome Ken!0.7×01.8k461
101Oct 13NEW: Our November print issue is out now! Over the next week, we'll be rolling out the issue as it goes online. Subscribe to read the full issue today at .0.1×8k841

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