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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

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

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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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

Gerrymandering

A Happy Decision for Trump A Happy Decision for Trump

Dec 16, 2025 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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Love Loves Love Loves

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

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

US President Donald Trump and John Roberts, chief justice of the US Supreme Court, shake hands during the 60th presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025.

The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy

In making frequent, ill use of the “shadow docket,” the high court is not just handing Trump policy victories. It’s upending the rule of law.

Dec 16, 2025 / Column / Elie Mystal

Demonstrators at the Indiana Statehouse denounce the proposed mid-decade gerrymander promoted by the Trump administration.

Indiana’s Gerrymander Victory Won’t Save Us Indiana’s Gerrymander Victory Won’t Save Us

The Hoosier State’s Senate showed rare backbone in resisting the Trump White House’s demand for a mid-cycle gerrymander. But the Roberts court gets the final say.

Dec 15, 2025 / David Daley

People pause outside of the engineering and physics building at Brown University, the site of a mass shooting that left at least two people dead and nine others injured the day before, December 14, 2025, in Providence, Rhode Island.

In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace

A growing number of US residents have lived through more than one massacre.

Dec 15, 2025 / Jeet Heer

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