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Joe Manchin Is Reviving Harmful Myths About Poverty
The Democratic Party has finally recognized that income inequality, not “dependency,” is what’s harming families. But Manchin is still pushing that 1990s-era belief.
Joan Walsh
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October 21, 2021
In Our Orbit: Dave Zirin’s “The Kaepernick Effect”
The Nation’s sports editor has a new book out on the politics of “taking a knee.”
Peter Rothberg
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October 19, 2021
To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them
Land-based nuclear weapons are world-ending accident waiting to happen, and completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent.
Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon
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October 18, 2021
Poverty Can Happen to Anyone
Our new podcast, Going for Broke, lets Americans living on the edge have the last word.
Ray Suarez
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October 15, 2021
Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible.
Critics of the American Rescue Plan made two dire predictions. Both proved wrong.
Mike Konczal
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October 15, 2021
There Are No Borders for the Rich
For the ruling class, the nation-state is an indispensable fiction.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for The Nation
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September 30, 2021
Biden’s Immigration Policy Picks Up Where Trump Left Off
The administration is carrying out mass expulsions cribbed straight from the Stephen Miller playbook.
Aída Chávez for The Nation
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September 21, 2021
Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist?
Two OWS participants debate the ideology at the core of the anti-capitalist movement.
Natasha Lennard and Nikil Saval
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September 7, 2021
Congress Has the Power to Rein In Presidential Military Overreach
The commander in chief’s power to invade and inflict carnage is far too expansive.
Danny Sjursen, Lawrence Wilkerson for The Nation
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September 7, 2021
For a Moment, the World Glimpsed the Truth of the US Occupation
The final days of the US occupation of Afghanistan were a nightmarish embodiment of the chaos, corruption, and violence of the last 20 years.
Ali M. Latifi