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Printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was made in reaction to the newly drawn state senate election district of South Essex created by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the Democratic-Republican Party. It’s only mid-2025, but both “major” US political...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I was listening to this NPR piece on the continuing rise in the stock market Sunday morning and was struck to hear this: “Despite the concerns about the impact of tariffs, the economy has held up much better than many expected.” To...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It’s maddening, isn’t it? To watch all these establishment politicians and media figures scatter to their personal accounts and feign moral outrage over Gaza… now, after nearly two years. As if this genocide just sprang out of...

Photograph Source: Presidencia de la República Mexicana – CC BY 2.0 On July 11, 2025, following Abdullah Öcalan’s call to disarm and dissolve the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 30 guerrillas symbolically burned their weapons in Jasana Cave, Slêmanî, a historic symbol...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I was listening to this NPR piece on the continuing rise in the stock market Sunday morning and was struck to hear this: “Despite the concerns about the impact of tariffs, the economy has held up much better than many expected.” To...

Daniel Felsenthal He was an artist and activist who found in his verse a tool for both community and agitprop. The post Essex Hemphill’s Poetry of Belonging appeared first on The Nation.

Elie Mystal The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case. The post The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US appeared first on The Nation.

Jonathan Cook-Sinpermiso El Financial Times reveló este mes que una camarilla de inversores israelíes, uno de los principales grupos de consultoría empresarial del mundo y un think tank dirigido por el ex primer ministro británico Tony Blair habían estado trabajando...

Image Source: מפה מדינית של המזרח התיכון – Public Domain Over the past four decades, there have been at least three tectonic shifts in the geopolitics of the Middle East, often referred to as efforts at “changing the map” of the Middle East.  In 1982, Israeli Defense...

Image Source: מפה מדינית של המזרח התיכון – Public Domain Over the past four decades, there have been at least three tectonic shifts in the geopolitics of the Middle East, often referred to as efforts at “changing the map” of the Middle East.  In 1982, Israeli Defense...

One of 32 varieties of arabica coffee growing at Paraiba Federal University’s coffee research program in Areia, Paraiba. Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer. It has been important to its national economy since the 1700s, and today it is Brazil’s largest...

Image by John Crozier. What sparked me to write this article was the persistent and reductive narrative that resurfaced following the recent U.S.–Israel bombing of Iran. Predictably, media coverage and social media posts quickly recycled the familiar trope: that...