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Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College; Robert Manuel, president of DePaul University; David Cole, a professor at Georgetown Law and former legal director of the ACLU; and Jeffrey Armstrong, president of California Polytechnic State University testify during a hearing before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on May 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on “Beyond The Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on American Campuses.”

McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings McCarthyism 2.0: Reflections on Testifying in the House Antisemitism Hearings

I soon realized that neither the law nor the facts matter to the Committee on Education’s Republican inquisitors.

May 28, 2025 / David Cole

The Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg, 2017.

The Place Where Millennials Go to Die The Place Where Millennials Go to Die

Vincenzo Latronico’s novel Perfection, a cutting portrait of bourgeois expats in Berlin, examines a generation's fixations and degradation in the German capital.

May 28, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Hanson O’Haver 

Solidarity With Palestine, Istanbul, Turkey

Solidarity With Palestine, Istanbul, Turkey Solidarity With Palestine, Istanbul, Turkey

“When your brother is murdered, something in you dies too.”

May 27, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Mike Richards, The Daily Wire’s latest canceled rehabilitation project, accepting a 2016 Emmy Award for his work on “The Price Is Right.”

The Daily Wire’s Doomed Quest for Pop-Culture Relevance The Daily Wire’s Doomed Quest for Pop-Culture Relevance

Ben Shapiro’s aspiring entertainment empire can’t stop trolling to its base.

May 23, 2025 / Ben Schwartz

Can Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Remake the War Movie?

Can Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Remake the War Movie? Can Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Remake the War Movie?

Warfare attempts to rewrite the rules of depicting violent conflict on screen, making for a close-up, visceral experience.

May 22, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Beatrice Loayza

Trump media microphones

We Can’t Afford to Let the Fourth Estate Topple We Can’t Afford to Let the Fourth Estate Topple

For all the deserved criticism of the American media, it remains one of the strongest pillars propping up what’s left of democracy in a time that’s been anything but good for the ...

May 21, 2025 / Nan Levinson

Evil Duo

Evil Duo Evil Duo

Fascist tendencies.

May 21, 2025 / OppArt / Becky Edmunds

The Ugly History of the Law Used to Target Mahmoud Khalil

The Ugly History of the Law Used to Target Mahmoud Khalil The Ugly History of the Law Used to Target Mahmoud Khalil

From the moment the McCarran-Walter Act was passed in 1952, The Nation has sounded the alarm about the danger it posed to politically active immigrants.

May 21, 2025 / Richard Kreitner

A view of Athens, Greece (circa 1900).

What Was the Polis? What Was the Polis?

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.

May 21, 2025 / Books & the Arts / FT

Honoring Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Honoring Sister Rosetta Tharpe Honoring Sister Rosetta Tharpe

A Harlem mural highlights a rock ’n’ roll originator.

May 20, 2025 / OppArt / Caryn Cast

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