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Premature babies receive care in an incubator at Al-Helou Hospital, where they are at risk due to fuel shortages, in Gaza City, on July 17, 2025.

Desperate for Fuel in Gaza Desperate for Fuel in Gaza

An extraordinary eyewitness report reveals that food isn’t the only thing Palestinians are starved of. Fuel is almost as scarce.

Jul 24, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Matilde “Sacha” Artes, of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, in Buenos Aires, 1985.

The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta The Argentine Grandmothers Who Resisted the Junta

Haley Cohen Gilliland’s A Flower Traveled in My Blood looks at the efforts of a human rights group to find the children and grandchildren who were disappeared by a dictatorship.

Jul 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jacob Sugarman

A black-and-white photo with a mushroom-shaped explosion.

We’re Still Living With the Decisions Made During the Trinity Tests We’re Still Living With the Decisions Made During the Trinity Tests

Eighty years after the first atomic weapons tests at Los Alamos, humanity has yet to fully reckon with the power of mass annihilation.

Jul 23, 2025 / Eric Ross

Niloofar Apartment in Tehran by Alidoost and Partners.

Iranian Brickwork Shows Us Better Architecture Is Possible Iranian Brickwork Shows Us Better Architecture Is Possible

Why the beauty and inventiveness of contemporary masonry in Iran has captured Western audiences.

Jul 23, 2025 / Kate Wagner

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Maga broadens their horizons.

Jul 23, 2025 / OppArt / Adam Zyglis

CIA chief Allen Dulles in 1958.

The CIA’s Imperial History, Part 2 The CIA’s Imperial History, Part 2

On this episode of American Prestige, the final part of our conversation with Hugh Wilford.

Jul 22, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

Bloody Line in the Sand

Bloody Line in the Sand Bloody Line in the Sand

Netanyahu’s Gaza horror show marches on.

Jul 22, 2025 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

Yasemin Acar, who was aboard the vessel Madleen when it was intercepted by Israeli forces, arrives in Berlin on June 12, 2025.

“They Wanted to Humiliate Us”: Israel’s Abuse of Freedom Flotilla Activists “They Wanted to Humiliate Us”: Israel’s Abuse of Freedom Flotilla Activists

One of the organizers tells The Nation about the sleep deprivation, psychological torment, and dehumanization she suffered at Israel’s hands.

Jul 22, 2025 / Saliha Bayrak

A view of damage at the Syrian General Staff headquarters and nearby buildings following Israeli airstrikes targeting the capital Damascus, Syria on July 17, 2025.

Israel Bombs Damascus, Militant Violence Erupts in Haiti, France Withdraws Troops From Senegal Israel Bombs Damascus, Militant Violence Erupts in Haiti, France Withdraws Troops From Senegal

On this episode of American Prestige, all the news that’s fit to hear.

Jul 18, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner

A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss Abrego Garcia's arrest and deportation d at Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2025,

The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture

The ambient threat of torture is a form of social control, encouraging everyone else to comply with and bow down before the regime.

Jul 17, 2025 / Rebecca Gordon

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