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Demonstrators protest funding cuts outside of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, on March 8, 2025.

Trump and RFK Jr. Are Making Cancer Great Again Trump and RFK Jr. Are Making Cancer Great Again

Public health funding cuts are risking the progress the nation has made in fighting and preventing many forms of the dreaded disease. But few people know it yet.

Apr 9, 2025 / Joan Walsh

Introducing “The Nation Podcast,” a New Interview Series

Introducing “The Nation Podcast,” a New Interview Series Introducing “The Nation Podcast,” a New Interview Series

Hosted by editor D.D. Guttenplan, the show will go behind the scenes of our biggest print stories with the journalists who wrote them.

Apr 8, 2025 / Press Room

Alternative Media, Trump 2.0, and the Moment in Politics

Alternative Media, Trump 2.0, and the Moment in Politics Alternative Media, Trump 2.0, and the Moment in Politics

On this episode of American Prestige, Katrina vanden Heuvel on the current state of politics, left journalism, Ukraine, and more.

Apr 8, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

A film still of Mahmoud Khalil from the documentary “The Encampments,” directed by Michael T. Workman and Key Pritsker.

Palestine Reveals the Empty Promises of US Democracy Palestine Reveals the Empty Promises of US Democracy

Kei Pritsker, a codirector of “The Encampments,” a documentary film that follows the pro-Palestine movement at Columbia, says the student protesters will be remembered as heroes.

Apr 8, 2025 / Q&A / Alyssa Oursler

Tesla Takedown Day

Tesla Takedown Day Tesla Takedown Day

Signs and scenes from the Tesla Showroom, NYC, 2/29/25.

Apr 8, 2025 / Steve Brodner

Vincent Bevins on Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement

Vincent Bevins on Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Vincent Bevins on Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement

On this episode of The Nation Podcast, Vincent Bevins joins D.D. Guttenplan to talk about the Marxist organization that emerged from the Bolsonaro regime stronger than ever.

Apr 8, 2025 / Podcast / D.D. Guttenplan and Vincent Bevins

DC: President Trump Departs White House for Mar-a-Lago

How Far Will 8 Years of Trump Set Back American Women? How Far Will 8 Years of Trump Set Back American Women?

The president and his cronies are committed to rolling progress back to the Stone Age. The effects could outlast his second term.

Apr 8, 2025 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Agnes Callard and the Examined Life

Agnes Callard and the Examined Life Agnes Callard and the Examined Life

In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in?

Apr 8, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Olúfémi O. Táíwò

Paul, Weiss Caves In Under Trump Pressure

Paul, Weiss Caves In Under Trump Pressure Paul, Weiss Caves In Under Trump Pressure

Apr 8, 2025 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A man holding up a US flag and a sign that reads,

The Epidemic of Capitulation Suggests the Liberal Order Has Been Rotting From Within The Epidemic of Capitulation Suggests the Liberal Order Has Been Rotting From Within

What old-school civics taught us about checks and balances isn’t working. The absence of a will to fight, to defend the institutions of liberal democracy, is breathtaking.

Apr 8, 2025 / Jodi Dean for The Nation

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