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People inspect damage and remove items from their homes following Israeli air strikes on April 7, 2024 in Khan Yunis, Gaza.

What Edward Said Teaches Us About Gaza What Edward Said Teaches Us About Gaza

On Palestine and the geography of vanishing.

Feb 3, 2026 / Alaa Alqaisi

A Catalog of Gaza’s Loss

A Catalog of Gaza’s Loss A Catalog of Gaza’s Loss

Recording what has been erased—and making sense of what remains.

Feb 3, 2026 / Deema Hattab

Two children are waving Palestinian flags on a wrecked car as displaced Palestinians start to return their houses past damaged houses in Jabalia and Beit Lahia regions

A Day for Gaza A Day for Gaza

Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Feb 3, 2026 / Rayan El Amine, Jack Mirkinson, and Lizzy Ratner

The Colorful Block in 2025.

The Gaza Street That Refuses to Die The Gaza Street That Refuses to Die

What I saw walking one block in Gaza.

Feb 3, 2026 / Ali Skaik

What Happens to the Educators When the Schools Have Been Destroyed?

What Happens to the Educators When the Schools Have Been Destroyed? What Happens to the Educators When the Schools Have Been Destroyed?

Hamada Abu Layla spent 22 years earning three degrees from Gaza universities. Now they mock him from a garbage dump.

Feb 3, 2026 / Ismail Nofal

What Gaza’s Photographers Have Seen

What Gaza’s Photographers Have Seen What Gaza’s Photographers Have Seen

These pictures are records of a genocidal war, but they are something more, too—they are fragments of Gaza itself

Feb 3, 2026 / Huda Skaik

Palestinians exercise on a beach in the Deir al-Balah Palestinian refugee camp on June 14, 2023.

At the Doorstep of Tomorrow At the Doorstep of Tomorrow

Faced with endlessly narrowing possibilities, I return to my diary in an attempt to dream, to imagine a future.

Feb 3, 2026 / Engy Abdelal

Melania Trump attends the premiere of “Melania” at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on January 29, 2026.

The Melania in “Melania” Likes Her Gilded Cage Just Fine The Melania in “Melania” Likes Her Gilded Cage Just Fine

The $45 million advertorial abounds in unintended ironies.

Feb 2, 2026 / Katha Pollitt

Zohran Mamdani and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Sam Levine announced more than $5 million in worker restitution and penalties secured from major restaurant delivery app companies.

Mamdani Secures a Multimillion-Dollar Settlement Over Delivery Worker Wage Theft Mamdani Secures a Multimillion-Dollar Settlement Over Delivery Worker Wage Theft

Uber Eats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan also agreed to reinstate 10,000 wrongfully deactivated workers.

Feb 2, 2026 / Prajwal Bhat

Looking for plastic bottle trash at a garbage dump in Aceh province, Indonesia.

Why Do Americans Consume So Much? Look to the Military. Why Do Americans Consume So Much? Look to the Military.

We consume far beyond our means because our military keeps enough of us feeling secure, and we have such a large military because we consume far beyond our means.

Feb 2, 2026 / Andrea Mazzarino

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