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Care workers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) participate in a living cemetery protest at the US Capitol on June 23 in Washington, DC.

“We Make All the Work Possible”: Home Care Workers Speak Out About Coming Medicaid Cuts “We Make All the Work Possible”: Home Care Workers Speak Out About Coming Medicaid Cuts

In-home care workers spoke to The Nation about their fears of ICE’s expansion and losing their jobs and healthcare coverage under the GOP’s shameful law.

Jul 25, 2025 / Joan Walsh

Summer of Epstein

Summer of Epstein Summer of Epstein

Sami Sage.

Jul 25, 2025 / Steve Brodner

A four-panel comic from Action Comics 8, 1939. Superman destroys slum housing to force the government to build public housing for the poor.

The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman

The real Man of Steel wasn’t woke, but he was radical.

Jul 25, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Beds are seen inside a migrant detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, as President Donald Trump tours the facility in Ochopee, Florida, on July 1, 2025.

From KGB Cells to Alligator Alcatraz: How Authoritarians Normalize the Grotesque From KGB Cells to Alligator Alcatraz: How Authoritarians Normalize the Grotesque

During a recent trip to Tallinn, I visited the horrific manifestations of an unredeemable totalitarian regime. A similar system is unfolding in Trump’s America.

Jul 25, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky

Claire Shipman speaks during the Commencement Ceremony at Columbia University in New York on May 21, 2025.

Columbia’s Settlement With Trump Is Pure Cowardice Columbia’s Settlement With Trump Is Pure Cowardice

The university agreed to a $221 million payout, tacitly conceding spurious right-wing conspiracy theories about higher education.

Jul 25, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Wrestler Hulk Hogan poses in a cut-off T-shirt in support of Donald Trump's second presidential campaign.

Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab

In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American hero—but he was really a “jabroni” the entire time.

Jul 25, 2025 / Obituary / Dave Zirin

People hold up a sign during a protest in Philadelphia.

A Court Just Ruled That Cops Can’t Stop-and-Frisk You—if They Suspect a Gun A Court Just Ruled That Cops Can’t Stop-and-Frisk You—if They Suspect a Gun

The ruling makes clear, however, that cops can still stop and frisk a person for existing while Black.

Jul 24, 2025 / Elie Mystal

A deportation officer holds a young woman’s arm as they walk down a hall of Federal Plaza courthouse.

Punished for Playing by the Rules: the Deliberate Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Regime Punished for Playing by the Rules: the Deliberate Cruelty of Trump’s Deportation Regime

Migrants who show up for their court dates now routinely face arrest by ICE. But failing to appear triggers a deportation order.

Jul 24, 2025 / Eileen Markey

Gazan children playing in the rubble of the Islamic Univerity

Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association

Institutional complicity in injustice.

Jul 24, 2025 / Van Gosse

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a roundtable discussion on soil health in the Mike Mansfield Room at the US Capitol on July 15, 2025

RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon

How a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health.

Jul 24, 2025 / Gregg Gonsalves

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