A Metaphysical Memoir of Heroin ( www.thenation.com )
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The Trump-Shaped Shadow on the Horizon ( www.thenation.com )
As we ring in a new year, the country is at risk of heading backward.
American Evangelicals Await the Final Battle in Gaza | The Nation ( www.thenation.com )
In Defense of Drug Decriminalization—Yes, in Oregon ( www.thenation.com )
In November 2020, facing a record-breaking overdose crisis, voters in Oregon decided to take a chance on a novel approach to drug use in this country. That fall, voters overwhelmingly approved a measure to decriminalize possessing small amounts of some controlled substances, including heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. This...
A Book Is a Book Is a Book—Except When It’s an e-Book ( www.thenation.com )
The GOP’s Ludicrous Claims of “Election Interference” ( www.thenation.com )
Now that Donald Trump has earned his fourth criminal indictment, the MAGA base of the Republican Party has rallied around Trump’s dismissals of the legal charges he’s facing. We hear across the MAGAverse that the prosecutions targeting the former president are simply “election interference”—aimed at derailing Trump’s...
Undercover With the New Alt-Right ( www.thenation.com )
The Scariest Lie at the GOP Debate Wasn’t About Donald Trump ( www.thenation.com )
The debate confirmed two things: that climate denial is thriving in the GOP, and that these candidates will do absolutely nothing to save the planet.
Republicans Are Wrong on Abortion—and They Know It ( www.thenation.com )
A recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll found that 80 percent of voters oppose a federal abortion ban, including 65 percent of Republicans. And what’s more, their base knows that’s exactly what their party is trying to do. Another poll from Navigator found that a majority of voters also “believe it is likely that...
AOC and Democratic Colleagues Learn Lessons From Latin-America’s Resurgent Left ( www.thenation.com )
The message was clear: From the dusty streets of a Brazilian favela, to FaceTiming with presidents and other top dignitaries, the group was there to listen, and chart a new course for relations between the United States and Latin America. They met with labor organizers, a new generation of Indigenous and Black women leaders,...
James O’Keefe Is Now Under Investigation for Looting Project Veritas ( www.thenation.com )
James O’Keefe, the founder and until this past February CEO of the right-wing nonprofit Project Veritas, is currently under investigation by the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office....
Inflation Is Falling. So Why Are the Fiscal Austerians Back in the Headlines? ( www.thenation.com )
The not-so-secret fact about America’s economic “success” over the past 40 years is that its gains have been exceedingly unevenly distributed in favor of the country’s wealthiest. Accustomed as they are to sustaining and increasing their economic gains at the expense of America’s workers, any marginal change that...