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Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman Talent, boldness, courage. The post Gladys Bentley appeared first on The Nation.

Joan Walsh I’d like to say the folks at the Emily’s List gala were fired up and ready to fight—but that would be missing the undercurrent of trauma in the crowd. The post Yes, We Will Fight for “Roe.” But We Are Also Mourning. appeared first on The Nation.

Elizabeth Gaynes Until I met Kathy, I had never witnessed the kind of self-study she engaged in to understand who she was before the crime that defined her life—and how she could begin to make amends. The post Kathy Boudin’s Remarkable Journey appeared first on The...

Dave Zirin The State Department is at long last seeing the basketball star as the “wrongfully detained” person she is. The post Finally a Change of Strategy in the Push for Brittney Griner’s Freedom appeared first on The Nation.

Jeff Jones, Eleanor Stein For both friends and activists, Boudin’s passing is the loss of a generous soul, uncompromising radical, parent, and guide on the path to responsibility and redemption. The post Our Friend Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and a Great Loss appeared...

Katrina vanden Heuvel Nothing makes the case for public ownership of online public spaces like a billionaire proposing to buy one. The post We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social Media appeared first on The Nation.

Zeina Hashem Beck The post To a Friend Returning to Aleppo appeared first on The Nation.

Jennifer Wilson Lynn Garafola’s biography of the dancer and choreographer charts her globetrotting life and radical art.  The post Nijinska’s Revolutionary Vision of Dance appeared first on The Nation.

Gerald Horne The enduring legacy and capacious vision of Black Reconstruction. The post W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy appeared first on The Nation.

Erin Somers Her latest novel tackles a favorite topic of her fiction—the excesses of the Internet and modern technologies. The post Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web appeared first on The Nation.

Sara Franklin Garbes’s new book looks at what it means to be a parent when we are “caught between the way we were raised and the way we want to live.” The post Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want appeared first on The Nation.

Calvin Trillin The post Le Pen’s Third Try for the Presidency Fails appeared first on The Nation.