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Image by Michael Schofield. In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire...

Photograph Source: U.S. Northern Command – Public Domain In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional—it’s personal. What is unfolding right now in California—with hundreds of Marines deployed domestically; thousands of National Guard troops...

Fine (right) being sworn in as a U.S. Representative by House Speaker Mike Johnson (left), April 2025. Photograph Source: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – Public Domain On May 22, Sarah Milgrim, 26, and Yaron Lischinsky, 30, were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I wonder what lance corporal Ricardo Sanchez thinks about Jaime Dominguez staring at him from across the line, what staff sergeant Renee Rousseau thinks about Jean Duvalier leaning up against that building, what private Winston Chang,...

Chris Lehmann The president’s response to the protests in Los Angeles is a naked attempt to settle a score going back to January 6, 2021. The post The 4-Year Grudge Behind Trump’s Invasion of California appeared first on The Nation.

Rafia Zakaria The first time Trump did this, we flocked to the airports in protest. This ban is no less racist—and it may even be more dangerous. The post Don’t Let Trump Desensitize You to the Horrors of His Latest Travel Ban appeared first on The Nation.

Anthony Conwright By demeaning the mayoral candidate’s agenda, Andrew Cuomo offends the Black tradition of community care. The post Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialist—Zohran Mamdani? appeared first on The Nation.

Mirko C. Trudeau El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump envió este lunes  a Los Ángeles a otros 2.000 soldados de la Guardia Nacional y movilizó a 700 marines para enfrentar «una rebelión» contra Estados Unidos, encabezada por manifestantes de “la izquierda...

Image by Unseen Histories. A good way to understand CIVIC SELF-RESPECT – the title of my timely new book – is to recall a slice of American history from the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies. Those were the years when Congress and a Republican...

Photo by Rafiee Artist A Manchurian Candidate, as initially defined in Richard Condon’s 1959 novel and the 1966 movie, is a nation’s leader controlled by that country’s enemy. These works of fiction played on the fear of a Communist takeover of America by Russia or...

Image by Ted Griswold, Los Angeles, 6/9/25. Many of us residing in the U.S. of European descent are the children of immigrants. Some are more recent than others, but immigrants nonetheless. My own grandfather arrived at Ellis Island just over a hundred years ago as a...

Photograph Source: Jaber Jehad Badwan – CC BY-SA 4.0 This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily...