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Elie Mystal

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Natalie Harp Is the High Priestess of the Cult of Trump

Jeet Heer

21.08.2026 9

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Elie Mystal

Trump’s Ballroom Isn’t Just a Farce Anymore—It’s a Threat

Elie Mystal

21.08.2026 10

The Nation

Elie Mystal

The Trump Plan to Cook the Census Books

Elie Mystal

19.08.2026 10

The Nation

Elie Mystal

The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda

Elie Mystal

13.08.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Grave Injustice

Steve Brodner

24.07.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Andy Beshear Is What’s Wrong With the Democratic Party in the Trump Era

Kali Holloway

24.07.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Protecting War Criminals Is As American as Apple Pie

Elie Mystal

24.07.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Paying Tribute to Richard Lingeman—Longtime Executive Editor and a Quiet Force at “The Nation” for More Than Three Decades

Nation Contributors

17.07.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Trump Delivered the Crazy, the Democrats Delivered... Tweets

Elie Mystal

17.07.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

All the Awful Supreme Court Rulings You Probably Missed

Elie Mystal

03.07.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day

Elie Mystal

30.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Why Zohran Mamdani Just Made the Case for an AOC Presidential Run

Aaron Regunberg

29.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump a Terrifying New Power

Elie Mystal

29.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism

Elie Mystal

25.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Loves Religious Freedom—Just Not for Rastafarians

Elie Mystal

24.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Mapping the Unsung History of Puerto Rican Resistance

Ana Agudelo

23.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

The Iran Disaster Is an Opportunity to Turn Away From Hawkish Idiocy and Reset Our Relationship With the Region

Matthew Duss

23.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

We Can’t Let the Good Vibes Stop Us From Demanding More of Mamdani

Dave Zirin

23.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Rockwell Kent’s View From Greenland

Andrew Holter

23.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

DEADHEADING

Jane Wong

23.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Trump’s Reflecting Pool Renovations Are a Total Disaster

Chris Lehmann

23.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

How to Win the New War for Black Voting Rights

Cliff Albright

23.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights To Everyone Else?

Elie Mystal

23.06.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

America Is Due a Third Reconstruction

Michele Goodwin

23.06.2026 50

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Has Agreed to Protect Drug Users

Elie Mystal

18.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Our Endorsement: Brad Lander for Congress

The Nation

12.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Graham Platner Had a Much Better Primary Result Than Lindsey Graham

John Nichols

12.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Trump Administration Is Addicted to Violence

Elie Mystal

12.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Black Voters Just Scored a Big Victory—in Alabama

Elie Mystal

27.05.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Why the Park Slope Food Coop’s BDS Battle Is So Important

Tariq Kenney-Shawa

22.05.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Evacuation Day

Steve Brodner

22.05.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Why Losing Colbert Hurts So Much

Ben Schwartz

22.05.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The American Revolution Was a Mistake

Elie Mystal

22.05.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The January Sixer Behind the Attack on Voting Rights

Elie Mystal

08.05.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Just Made Its Voting Rights Ruling Even Worse

Elie Mystal

05.05.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

Republicans Can’t Contain Their Glee Over the Death of the VRA

Elie Mystal

02.05.2026 40

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court’s Death Blow Against Voting Rights Is the Culmination of John Roberts’s 50-Year Crusade

David Daley

29.04.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Has Completed Its Quest to Kill the Voting Rights Act

Elie Mystal

29.04.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Trump’s Latest Ballroom Push Is His Nero Moment

Elie Mystal

29.04.2026 40

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Elie Mystal

Why the Supreme Court Justices Are Suddenly Casting Shade on Each Other

Elie Mystal

23.04.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Only One Side Has Clearly Broken the Law In the Strait of Hormuz

Maryam Jamshidi

17.04.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The GOP Wants Alito Out—But Not Because He’s Evil

Elie Mystal

17.04.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Introducing Fighting Fascism, A New Podcast Devoted to Resisting Authoritarianism

Introducing Fighting Fascism, A New Podcast Devoted to Resisting Authoritarianism

17.04.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Did Wisconsin Just Offer a Glimpse of a Post-Trump Future?

Elie Mystal

10.04.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

Public Health Needs to Get Off the Laptop and Into the Streets

Gregg Gonsalves

09.04.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Trump’s Iran Speech Showed the Desperation of a Loser

Jeet Heer

02.04.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Absolutely Shredded Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case

Elie Mystal

02.04.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Just Condemned Countless Kids to Psychiatric Abuse

Elie Mystal

01.04.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

The Politicians Won’t Stop This War. Only the People Can.

Jeet Heer

27.03.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

Nothing Works in Trump’s America—Except for Racism

Elie Mystal

27.03.2026 20

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Elie Mystal