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Jeff Gates Trump’s press secretary’s flaming lies. The post Karoline Leavitt Cheer(mis)leader appeared first on The Nation.

Marc Frank For most people on the island, the threat is just one more worry amid a grueling economic crisis. The post Cubans Watch the Escalating US-Venezuelan Crisis appeared first on The Nation.

Greg Grandin How did we get to a moment when a president could order the serial killing of civilians, publicly share videos of the crimes, and find that the response is little more than a shrug? The post A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America...

Greg Grandin How did we get to a moment when a president could order the serial killing of civilians, publicly share videos of the crimes, and find that the response is little more than a shrug? The post A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America...

Mikaela Dery In The Season, Helen Garner considers the zeal and irrationality of fandom and her country’s favorite pastime, Australian rules football. The post The Inexplicable Logic of Contact Sports appeared first on The Nation.

Rebecca Cokley Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated. The post A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong appeared first on The Nation.

Fatimah Asghar The post [they’re in their lord of the flies bag] appeared first on The Nation.

Jane Borden The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas. The post The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists appeared first on The Nation.

Jane Borden The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas. The post The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists appeared first on The Nation.

Chris Lehmann The journalist’s rise and fall and rise again looks like a performance of tabloid drama. But really, it’s Beltway access reporting taken to its natural extreme. The post The Nuzzi Seizure of Power appeared first on The Nation.

Katha Pollitt First of all, in order to ask questions about the young women he preyed on, they’d need to see them as people. The post Why Did So Many People in Epstein’s Circle Look the Other Way? appeared first on The Nation.

Daniel Napsha Zohran Mamdani needs a civic program to complement his affordability agenda The post How Zohran Mamdani Can Build a More Civic New York appeared first on The Nation.