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Having achieved fame for his novels, Mark Twain then put his celebrity status to use by speaking out for his beliefs, including opposing American empire and adventurism. “I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”.

"Young voters are progressive, the conventional wisdom goes, if only they would go to the polls." Well, now they are, writes @tmavuram.

In their quest to hold Trump accountable, Letitia James and her fellow Democratic AGs have become the main actors holding the line against the Trump administration’s lawlessness, writes @joanwalsh.

In an interview with @ellafanger, union organizer Chris Smalls talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement.

Freedom is neither a fixed idea nor a story of progress toward a predetermined goal. The history of American freedom is a tale of debates and struggles.

At this moment, the history of the bomb needs to be reconsidered, not as an isolated development in an increasingly distant past but as inextricably linked to broader questions of mass violence now, including in Gaza.

The pandemic helped lift the fortunes of the new, new right—but not in the way you might think.

"Prison guards were doing things to every last one of us, but with me specifically, they would lie to me to the point where they would make me get dressed and tell me [I was] going home knowing that I wasn’t," says @Shut_downAmazon.

RT @KathaPollitt: Sasha Abramsky: "This is America in 2025. A land of masked men operating with impunity as they terrorize communities and….

What happens when the failures of our healthcare system meet the cruelties of our immigration system? In this investigation, @ByLisetCruz explores the practice of “medical deportation”—a practice that is getting worse under Trump. With @typeinvestigate.

Hiroshima is not merely a past atrocity but an open wound, not simply a lesson of history but an ongoing nightmare. There is no true way to meaningfully honor its memory while so many countries actively prepare for future nuclear war.

For the past year, Covid contrarianism has been getting a revival in the most unlikely circles—among the liberal cognoscenti.

Over the past few months, we’ve had commentators on the right, in the center, and on the center-left praising "In COVID’s Wake" as a must-read and reiterating the associated talking points as a revelation. That's scary.

DC is the perfect testing ground for Trump's coup, because it doesn’t have statehood and only limited home rule, writes Dave Zirin.

In their quest to hold Trump accountable, Letitia James and her fellow Democratic AGs have become the main actors holding the line against the Trump administration’s lawlessness, writes @joanwalsh.

Zohran Mamdani has hailed Fiorello La Guardia as the best mayor New York ever had. But who exactly was La Guardia? And why was he so great? Here’s what The Nation’s own archives tell us about the mayor known as “the Little Flower.”.

RT @orner_sam: The Bookstores Bridging Divides in Israel

From charter schools to mandatory drug laws, a GOP-controlled Congress always treats DC as a political laboratory, writes Dave Zirin. This is the end result: A federal tyrant running the city without any accountability.

Palestinians who escaped the horrors of Gaza face a new trauma: the dislocation of exile from their homeland, writes @MohammRafik.

RT @ChrisBurkeShay: Trump's occupation combines the absurd with the vulgar.