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By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal. bit.ly/2DvYQpO
A "tender age" six-year-old girl was forced to sign this document after being sexually abused in an immigrant detention center while separated from her mother. bit.ly/2NLgR6Q
Student debt cancellation would boost GDP by up to $108 billion a year and would add up to 1.5 million jobs per year. bit.ly/2QpEVAc
We are proud to endorse for president—again! The democratic socialist is the only candidate with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges of our time.
Recent polling found that Medicare for All is supported by 69% of all Americans.
AMLO Has Been a Disappointment to the World—For Mexico, He’s Been Far Worse
By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal. bit.ly/2DvYQpO
Alec Raeshawn Smith, age 26, was found dead in his apartment on June 27. He was rationing his insulin after he aged out of his parent’s insurance coverage. bit.ly/2zYQtmi
We rarely do this—only twice before in 150 years—but today we endorse Bernie Sanders for president: bit.ly/1RPiluW
"Sanders is uniquely ready to beat Trump because he embodies the opposite of Trumpism." bit.ly/2uohrTQ
For too long Palestinian voices have been silenced. The Nation is proud to have brought Mohammed el-Kurd on as Palestine correspondent.
Texas Republicans have voted to remove Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream”speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” from Texas social studies curriculum.
49 years ago today, Fred Hampton was killed by the FBI. In 1976, The Nation published a report on the civil trial that followed, revealing details of COINTELPRO and the gruesome plot to take down the Panthers. Read the full story: bit.ly/2EdjfCD
Turns out the Koch network bankrolled the astroturf backlash against teaching kids about racism.
Turns out the Koch network bankrolled the astroturf backlash against teaching kids about racism.
Student debt cancellation would boost annual GDP by up to $108 billion per year.
Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All. bit.ly/2e7w1U3
Bernie Sanders Just Introduced His Free College Tuition Plan bit.ly/2n5rRTV
Single black women aged 36–49, on average, have a net worth of $5, while single white women in the same age group have a net worth of nearly $42,000. bit.ly/2PX9jCn
CNN’s treatment of Sanders raises a major problem that he’s going to have to confront going forward: major players in the mainstream media are clearly unafraid to be cover him in a one-sided manner. bit.ly/386875C
We are proud to endorse for president—again! The democratic socialist is the only candidate with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges of our time. bit.ly/2xhWXO6
What made this overnight normalization of white supremacy possible? In their zeal to ignore anything negative about our Ukrainian allies, Western media has decided that a neo-Nazi military formation in a war-torn nation had suddenly stopped being neo-Nazi.
"This country hasn’t seen this kind of dystopian legal bullshit since Salem." —
Joe Kennedy III Hired a Cop to Advise Him on Race and Justice
We still believe that Biden would be a uniquely weak challenger to Trump, forfeiting the high ground on corruption, the Iraq War, and even #MeToo while being forced to defend his record on mass incarceration, bankruptcy, credit card companies and banks.
The citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh never voted to be the subjects of Ilham Aliyev’s despotic rule, nor his persecution. They were never part of an independent Azerbaijan. They are just fighting for their freedom, for the right to celebrate the everyday.
On Monday, Amy Goodman will turn herself in to police in Mandan, North Dakota. Her crime—journalism. thenation.com/article/amy-go
Bernie Sanders's education platform calls for:
✅ Desegregation
✅ Massive federal investment
✅ Funding special education
✅ Raising teacher salaries to at least $60,000 year
✅ Universal free school meals
✅ Rebuilding decaying school infrastructure
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Bernie Sanders wants Election Day to be a holiday, which would dramatically increase turnout. bit.ly/2eNN4fK
Black children have their side of the story too, but they don’t get to go on the Today Show and explain their actions, because they are dead. bit.ly/2DuxiCg
Meet the first Black woman to run for president in Colombia
Elizabeth Warren Is the First Intersectional Candidate for President
Kyrsten Sinema—a sitting senator earning a taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000—took a paid internship at a winery last summer. It wasn't even in her state. bit.ly/3Coei4h
Biden Needs to Stop Talking Down Bernie Sanders and Medicare for All
There’s too much at stake to let establishment Democrats lead us down the road of failure by selling Joe Biden as safe. He’s not.
An investigative report reveals an elaborate covert operation originating in Israel that aimed to use secret intelligence to clandestinely intervene at the highest levels in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump.
"81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump—more than voted for George W. Bush, an actual evangelical—and now everyone is laughing at them. It’s about time." bit.ly/2ueVshE
The Nation has learned that Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, has died after a long struggle with esophageal cancer. , a friend and co-author, wrote his obit:
We are thrilled to welcome Mohammed el-Kurd to The Nation as our first ever Palestine Correspondent.
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After the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 came a general strike.
Just sayin!
"There’s so much misery in the world, but we’re investing in nuclear weapons and in missile systems, and we don’t talk about trying to move toward a world of peace." —
300,000 registered voters in Wisconsin lacked strict voter ID—Trump won the state by 27,000 votes. bit.ly/2pe3qRv
The data is out: Americans voted for Trump for this reason. bit.ly/2oF3eOb
We're thrilled to announce that is joining our team as our new DC Correspondent. Welcome Ken!
Trump offers nothing but bigotry, ignorance, and pathological narcissism.
"I was shocked to hear the 2020 Democratic front-runner tell me to my face to vote for Trump, simply because I pressed him on a question about basic dignity for immigrants."
Polls now show that more Americans support impeaching Trump than approve of his presidency. bit.ly/2t3WdV8
"If Trump had a brain, even if it was 99 percent cynical, he would come out and say something to unify people. But he doesn’t care about bringing people together. Even now. That’s how deranged he is." — Gregg Popovich
Exclusive: A CBP spokesman tells that CBP agents were responsible for the arrest of the Portland arrest of a protestor widely seen on social media.
By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal. bit.ly/2DmjwjZ
"A child born into poverty has almost no chance of getting out of poverty in today’s United States, statistically." bit.ly/2zBNGf8
The history of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement is a history of heartbreak.
A congressional staffer told that Rep. Eliot Engel tried to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of her committee assignment.
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China is moving to quash dissent in Hong Kong—without consulting the city's lawmakers. What does this mean for the protest movement?
Following the debates, Democratic support for a fracking ban dropped an eye-popping 16 points, from 65% to 49%.
The Houston Texans are telling Bob McNair that they won’t be made to feel like something less than free. bit.ly/2zRkeCo
"The only people less interested in investigating Brett Kavanaugh’s conduct than Chris Wray were PJ, Tobin, and Squee."—
Bernie Sanders Wants to Tell the Story That Corporate Media Fails To bit.ly/2Iz4byl
“The only reason you get to breach the Capitol is you let it happen,” an FBI official told . “Why did Capitol Police not have a plan?”
Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748) bit.ly/2pYnNo9
Here are the 20 top recipients of NRA cash in congress and their phone numbers. Call them: bit.ly/264dc81
"I’m sick of everybody treating Trump and his bad faith sycophants as if they are babies throwing a series of tantrums... These are grown adults who need to be punished for the violations of laws and codes of ethical conduct." —
Hong Kongers have formed nearly 50 new unions in the last few months—their newest tool against what they see as a failing government.
This is pretty infuriating: top Democrats blocked AOC from the House Energy and Commerce Committee in favor of centrist Kathleen Rice, who voted with Big Pharma instead.
Misogynistic Hate Will Not Stop Korean Feminism
On Gun Capitalism: The NRA is a trade group whose sole mission is to boost sales for the weapons industry. thenation.com/article/gun-sa
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book.
Never forget: No speaker of the House has ever ended his tenure on so shameful a note. bit.ly/2CP2U5v
I reminded him that millions of families were separated while he was vice president. That’s when Biden interrupted me and said: “You should vote for Trump.”
Nearly 3,000 pages of emails reveal that the Department of Education worked with men’s rights groups to rewrite the rules on campus sexual assault and harassment.
"White journalists must stop repeating police lies, uncritically, without demanding evidence to back up police claims."—
Student debt cancellation would boost annual GDP by up to $108 billion per year.
An array of youth-dominated grassroots groups are going directly after the climate-wrecking industry and the politicians it bankrolls. bit.ly/2EAaDUJ
Ten thousand Olympic volunteers quit their posts in Tokyo, with the games just 50 days away.
Columbia neuroscience professor told it would be hard to exactly quantify the impact of John Fetterman’s candor but that he’s sure openness about his battles with depression will save lives. “The guy is a hero,” Dr. Mann said.
The Most Common Type of American Terrorist Is a White Man With a Weapon and a Grudge thenat.in/1AYnY3a
Trump Unleashes His Secret Police in Portland
Women have been on the frontlines of the Hong Kong protests. They've borne the brunt of sexual assault and doxxing, too.
Free Brittney Griner. Say her name, because her freedom may depend upon it.
. just released his single-payer healthcare bill and sat down to talk with us about it. bit.ly/2h3ru6k
BREAKING: Leaked Draft Of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination thenation.com/article/leaked
His misogyny, homophobia, and racism are so openly expressed that even Marine Le Pen called his rhetoric unpleasant. bit.ly/2Q2yVuW
"I know this because he’s stealing lines directly from my interview with her." bit.ly/2XZpgs0
The data is out: Americans voted for Trump for this reason. bit.ly/2nAVWcN
"I’m a forty-year-old black man. I cannot even conceive of what it must be like to walk around this country with the confidence of a white male teenager." bit.ly/2Dyijrj
The current war in Nagorno-Karabakh represents a head-on collision between democratic values and tyrannical ones.
How dare let this kid use the George Zimmerman defense? How dare she let this white kid try to rehabilitate his image with the same language that people have used to justify the destruction of black children?
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If you aren't already following @Ocasio2018 and her badass congressional campaign yet, you are missing out. bit.ly/2JZtaix
Less than one month into his presidency, 46% of Americans now favor his impeachment. bit.ly/2lnLm80
Nationalism is the exact wrong approach to take to a global pandemic, where the solution requires a worldwide pooling of medical resources.
