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Love Loves Love Loves

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

Big Event

Big Event Big Event

Happy birthday, Sandy!

Dec 16, 2025 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance

The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance

What we can learn from a great American city’s refusal to bend to Trump’s invasion.

Dec 16, 2025 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols

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

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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

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

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

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel

Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel

Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.

Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman

How LA Defeated Donald Trump

How LA Defeated Donald Trump How LA Defeated Donald Trump

And how the rest of the country can too.

Dec 16, 2025 / Feature / Bill Gallegos

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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

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