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Happy birthday, Sandy!

Dec 16, 2025 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Solution to the “Big Event” Crossword Solution to the “Big Event” Crossword

If questions remain after reading this, please write to sandy @ thenation.com.

Dec 16, 2025

Gerrymandering

A Happy Decision for Trump A Happy Decision for Trump

Dec 16, 2025 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Amazon delivery driver Leah Cross has alleged that Amazon’s delivery quota amounts to workplace discrimination. Here, a Lakewood, Colorado, driver makes deliveries in 2023.

The EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand The EEOC Is Now Letting Workplace Discrimination Stand

The agency is unlawfully giving up on fighting disparate impact discrimination—meaning it’s “open season” on employees.

Dec 16, 2025 / Bryce Covert

US President Donald Trump and John Roberts, chief justice of the US Supreme Court, shake hands during the 60th presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025.

The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy

In making frequent, ill use of the “shadow docket,” the high court is not just handing Trump policy victories. It’s upending the rule of law.

Dec 16, 2025 / Column / Elie Mystal

Nation Poetry

Love Loves Love Loves

Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Camp

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Letters From the January 2026 Issue Letters From the January 2026 Issue

Malice aforethought… Sheep throat… Standing room only… Correction…

Dec 16, 2025 / Our Readers

Items left by mourners at Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025, in Sydney, Australia.

Don’t Listen to the Ghouls Exploiting the Tragedy of Bondi Beach Don’t Listen to the Ghouls Exploiting the Tragedy of Bondi Beach

The dead have one use to these people: They exist to justify Israel’s conquest of Gaza and the Palestinian blood that now will surely be shed. Facts be damned.

Dec 16, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Nation Poetry

Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters

after “Is My Living in Vain?”, 1980

Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Karisma Price

Idi Amin in Kampala, 1975.

Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda

In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.

Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French

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