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Parents, teachers, childcare workers, and community members hold up handmade signs defending local childcare programs during a press conference at a daycare center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Real Welfare Fraud Scandal The Real Welfare Fraud Scandal

If the Trump administration were truly concerned with fraud in social services spending, it wouldn’t start with childcare, and it wouldn’t start with Minnesota.

Jan 14, 2026 / Bryce Covert

Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan on January 13, 2026.

Can American Power Be Redeemed? Can American Power Be Redeemed?

On American Prestige: Shadi Hamid on American hegemony and whether it can be a force for good.

Jan 13, 2026 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

ICE = KKK

ICE = KKK ICE = KKK

On January 7, an ICE agent shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis—state violence rooted in racism, fear, and impunity, echoing America’s darkest histories.

Jan 13, 2026 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Trump’s Predatory Danger to Latin America

Trump’s Predatory Danger to Latin America Trump’s Predatory Danger to Latin America

The United States is now a superpower predator on the prowl in its “backyard.”

Jan 13, 2026 / Peter Kornbluh

Hell Cats vs. Hegseth

Hell Cats vs. Hegseth Hell Cats vs. Hegseth

Meet the military women who are fighting to win purple districts for the Democrats and put the defense secretary on notice.

Jan 13, 2026 / Feature / Joan Walsh

The storming of the Bastille.

How Has the Idea of Revolution Changed? How Has the Idea of Revolution Changed?

A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept.

Jan 13, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon

Maduro’s Arrest

Maduro’s Arrest Maduro’s Arrest

Jan 13, 2026 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Banners hanging from Memorial Church on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Trump’s New Endowment Tax Is Already Reshaping Higher Education Trump’s New Endowment Tax Is Already Reshaping Higher Education

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” added additional taxes on a small set of universities. Now budget cuts have hit campuses across the Ivy League and elsewhere.

Jan 13, 2026 / StudentNation / Zachary Clifton

Nicolas Maduro is seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad.

The “Donroe” Doctrine Is Dangerous The “Donroe” Doctrine Is Dangerous

Trump’s brazen violation of international law destabilizes global security.

Jan 13, 2026 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols

Nation Poetry

Fear of Nothing Fear of Nothing

Jan 13, 2026 / Books & the Arts / D. Nurkse

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