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The Shorter Community African Methodist Episcopal Church in Denver, Colorado, provides members free haircuts and almost $30,000 from congregation donations.

Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialist—Zohran Mamdani? Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialist—Zohran Mamdani?

By demeaning the mayoral candidate’s agenda, Andrew Cuomo offends the Black tradition of community care.

Jun 10, 2025 / Anthony Conwright

Supporters of the Job Corps at congressional testimony by Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer about the shuttering of the program.

How the White House’s War on the Job Corps Is Hurting Trump Country How the White House’s War on the Job Corps Is Hurting Trump Country

An abrupt Labor Department order to shutter 99 Job Corps campuses across the country is devastating for at-risk trainees and local economies.

Jun 10, 2025 / Deb Vanasse

Jerry Springer appears on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno on February 5, 1999.

How the Low Culture of 1999 Predicted Modern America How the Low Culture of 1999 Predicted Modern America

On this episode of American Prestige, Ross Benes on the year that laid the groundwork for life as we know it.

Jun 10, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner

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Nothing Survives Without Food Nothing Survives Without Food

Jun 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Leah Naomi Green

Nation Poetry

Take Care Take Care

Jun 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Michael Prior

Atlanta during a heat wave in 2022.

How America Failed the Unhoused How America Failed the Unhoused

Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor.

Jun 10, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Libby Watson

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Letters From the July/August 2025 Issue Letters From the July/August 2025 Issue

The radical Self… In defense of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon (online only)… George Foreman in a new light (online only)… Elon Musk’s apartheid influences (online only)…

Jun 10, 2025 / Our Readers

Pedestrians cross Union Street in the North Beach district in San Francisco.

Will the Creation of a Historic District in San Francisco Hold Back New Housing? Will the Creation of a Historic District in San Francisco Hold Back New Housing?

Activists are butting heads with a local preservation organization over a proposal to turn part of the city’s North Beach neighborhood into a nationally registered historic ...

Jun 10, 2025 / StudentNation / Ella Curlin

A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest Trump’s latest travel ban at Los Angeles International Airport on June 9, 2025.

Don’t Let Trump Desensitize You to the Horrors of His Latest Travel Ban Don’t Let Trump Desensitize You to the Horrors of His Latest Travel Ban

The first time Trump did this, we flocked to the airports in protest. This ban is no less racist—and it may even be more dangerous.

Jun 10, 2025 / Rafia Zakaria

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