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ICE watchers Mustafa Mohamed (L) and Mahad Ahmed patrol their community around the Riverside Plaza complex in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood on January 9, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Somali Americans Aren’t Going Anywhere Somali Americans Aren’t Going Anywhere

Trump keeps targeting Minnesota’s Somali community. But as one organizer says, “What we’ve built here, we’re not going to let it be easy for people to take that away from us.”

Feb 10, 2026 / Iliana Hagenah

Nation Poetry

How to Build a Moon Garden When the News Is All Horror How to Build a Moon Garden When the News Is All Horror

Feb 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Civil defense teams carry out operations to recover the bodies of five members of the Abu Nida family who were trapped under the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli attacks on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza Strip on February 0, 2026.

To Build Bridges, We Must Block the Bombs To Build Bridges, We Must Block the Bombs

Brad Lander in The Nation: “When I am elected to Congress, I will support the Block the Bombs Act to protect more Palestinians from being killed by Israel.”

Feb 10, 2026 / Brad Lander

The Racist Lie Behind ICE’s Mission in Minneapolis

The Racist Lie Behind ICE’s Mission in Minneapolis The Racist Lie Behind ICE’s Mission in Minneapolis

It was never about straightforward enforcement of immigration law.

Feb 10, 2026 / Column / Chris Lehmann

The Riotous Worlds of Thomas Pynchon

The Riotous Worlds of Thomas Pynchon The Riotous Worlds of Thomas Pynchon

From “The Crying Lot of 49” to his latest noirs, the American novelist has always proceeded along a track strangely parallel to our own.

Feb 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel

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Letters From the March 2026 Issue Letters From the March 2026 Issue

Basement books… Kate Wagner replies… Reading Pirandello (online only)… Gus O’Connor replies…

Feb 10, 2026 / Our Readers, Kate Wagner, and Gus O’Connor

Bad Bunny performs during the halftime show for Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium on February 8, 2026.

Bad Bunny’s Technicolor Halftime Stole the Super Bowl Bad Bunny’s Technicolor Halftime Stole the Super Bowl

The Puerto Rican artist’s performance was a gleeful rebuke of Trump’s death cult and a celebration of life.

Feb 9, 2026 / Dave Zirin

1933 Revisited

1933 Revisited 1933 Revisited

Trump’s ICE agents terrorize American citizens unchecked.

Feb 9, 2026 / OppArt / Gary Taxali

A man walks past signs hanging on a fence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on February 3, 2026.

Keith Ellison: Trump Hates Minnesotans Because We Love Each Other Keith Ellison: Trump Hates Minnesotans Because We Love Each Other

The president has gone after us because of who we are and what we value. We have an obligation to resist.

Feb 9, 2026 / Keith Ellison

Fiorello La Guardia speaking in 1933 in East Harlem.

Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of Modern New York

How the popular mayor and a popular front of radicals and reformers transformed New York City

Feb 9, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin

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