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Keep it simple and focused amid the daily challenges of leading New York City.

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Voters Reject the Cruelty, Chaos, and Corruption of Trumpism Voters Reject the Cruelty, Chaos, and Corruption of Trumpism

There were no bright spots for the GOP this election. Across the country, Democrats running on inclusionary, economically ambitious, pro-immigrant policies won.

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How Much Suffering Can COP30 Prevent? How Much Suffering Can COP30 Prevent?

Bill Gates gets climate change wrong. It’s not a binary—humanity survives or goes extinct—it’s a questions of scale: How many people will die or be left destitute?

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Above All, the NBA Will Protect the Gambling Industry Above All, the NBA Will Protect the Gambling Industry

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The Left Is About to Take Power. The Stakes Could Not Be Higher. The Left Is About to Take Power. The Stakes Could Not Be Higher.

Nov 6, 2025 / Álvaro López

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Cruelest choices.

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Arc de Trump.

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The gaslight zone.

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Politics

Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson sit down for a friendly chat.

Nick Fuentes Is the GOP’s Latest Frankenstein Monster Nick Fuentes Is the GOP’s Latest Frankenstein Monster

The extremist podcaster’s rise and rise is a sign that racists and antisemites are tired of being the junior partners in the Republican coalition.

Jeet Heer

Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, speaks during a news conference on education in August 2022.

Texas’s “Parental Rights” Amendment Will Cement Republicans’ Anti-Educator Agenda Texas’s “Parental Rights” Amendment Will Cement Republicans’ Anti-Educator Agenda

The ballot proposal is the right’s latest move in the culture war on teachers and public schools, embedding parental primacy in the state constitution.

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Director Woody Allen leaves Manhattan surrogate court in a car, New York, June 10, 1993, following a second day of hearings on efforts by ex-lover Mia Farrow to undo his adoption of children.

Woody Allen’s New York—and Mine Woody Allen’s New York—and Mine

The director’s vision of New York City once seemed aspirational, but his endorsement of Andrew Cuomo suggests he may not understand the city beyond its fiction.

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Books & the Arts

Arundhati Roy, 2002.

The Making of Arundhati Roy The Making of Arundhati Roy

In Mother Mary Comes to Me, the icon of Indian letters revisits the time that forged her as a writer.

Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Mahanta

Yoko Ono, 1967.

Why Is Yoko Ono Still Misunderstood? Why Is Yoko Ono Still Misunderstood?

A recent biography helps shed light on her life before and after John Lennon—making a case for the primacy of her art and its lasting influence.

Books & the Arts / Quinn Moreland

Nighttime view of people in a vacant lot as they watch a fire burning on the top floors of an apartment building in the Bronx, New York, 1983.

The Uncertain History of the Bronx Fires The Uncertain History of the Bronx Fires

In Born in Flames, Bench Ansfield asks, who, or what, is responsible for the arson epidemic that afflicted the borough in the 1970s and ’80s?

Books & the Arts / Samuel Zipp

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Climate Disasters Are Traumatizing Brazil’s Children

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The generation coming into the world now is expected will face unprecedented extreme weather events throughout their lives.

Giovana Girardi

Trump and team sat across from Zelensky

Europe Is at Donald Trump’s Mercy. It Has Itself to Blame. Europe Is at Donald Trump’s Mercy. It Has Itself to Blame.

The European Union has failed to mount an alternative to Donald Trump. On defense, geopolitical alignment, and trade policy, it is ever more subservient to the United States.

Harrison Stetler

A firefighter stands near burning market after Russian drone attack on October 22, 2025, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine

The Risk of a Radical Escalation Leading to Actual Conflict Between NATO and Russia Grows The Risk of a Radical Escalation Leading to Actual Conflict Between NATO and Russia Grows


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People Are Furious With Democrats. Bernie Sanders Knows Why.

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Democratic Party leadership is way out of touch with where the American people are, and it’s almost frightening to see the kind of anger and contempt that people feel toward it.

Feature / John Nichols

What Was the Cybertruck?

What Was the Cybertruck? What Was the Cybertruck?

Elon Musk’s car from space offered a vision for a sustainable and autonomous future. All along, it was as awkward, easily bruised, and volatile as the entrepreneur himself.

Feature / Maya Vinokour

Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo, 2022.

The Supreme Court v. Democracy The Supreme Court v. Democracy

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

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