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Elie Mystal

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“I Had to Get My Mind Right”: The Challenges to Loving Relationships After Being Laid Off by DOGE

Lottie Joiner

09.10.2026 7

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Elie Mystal

This November, Vote Like Samuel Alito Is on the Ballot

Elie Mystal

09.10.2026 6

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Elie Mystal

This Lawsuit Could Make Big Oil Pay for the Harm It’s Caused

Elie Mystal

06.10.2026 8

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Elie Mystal

PSA: Trump Continues To Commit Crimes

Elie Mystal

30.09.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Netanyahu Came to New York. New Yorkers Were Ready for Him.

Ella Fanger

25.09.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The First Amendment Lives for Another News Cycle—Maybe

Elie Mystal

25.09.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

We Need to Protect College Sports from Ted Cruz

Elie Mystal

18.09.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

How The Nation Covered 9/11

Katrina vanden Heuvel

11.09.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

Read Bernie’s Bill Here

Steve Brodner

11.09.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

The US Had a Choice After 9/11. It Chose Wrong.

Elie Mystal

11.09.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

A New Theory of John Roberts’s Jurisprudence

Elie Mystal

04.09.2026 10

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Elie Mystal

The Lesson of META’s Defeat? Release the Tort Lawyers!

Elie Mystal

28.08.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Ukraine and Our Wildly Reckless Flirtation With a Nuclear War

Matt Bivens

26.08.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Is Helping Trump Rig the Midterms

Elie Mystal

26.08.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage

William D. Hartung

26.08.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Natalie Harp Is the High Priestess of the Cult of Trump

Jeet Heer

21.08.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

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

Elie Mystal

21.08.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Trump Plan to Cook the Census Books

Elie Mystal

19.08.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda

Elie Mystal

13.08.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

Grave Injustice

Steve Brodner

24.07.2026 30

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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 20

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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 20

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Elie Mystal

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

Elie Mystal

17.07.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

All the Awful Supreme Court Rulings You Probably Missed

Elie Mystal

03.07.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day

Elie Mystal

30.06.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

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

Aaron Regunberg

29.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump a Terrifying New Power

Elie Mystal

29.06.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism

Elie Mystal

25.06.2026 20

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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 20

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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 20

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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 20

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Elie Mystal

Rockwell Kent’s View From Greenland

Andrew Holter

23.06.2026 20

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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 20

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Elie Mystal

How to Win the New War for Black Voting Rights

Cliff Albright

23.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

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

Elie Mystal

23.06.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

America Is Due a Third Reconstruction

Michele Goodwin

23.06.2026 70

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Elie Mystal

The Supreme Court Has Agreed to Protect Drug Users

Elie Mystal

18.06.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

Our Endorsement: Brad Lander for Congress

The Nation

12.06.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

Graham Platner Had a Much Better Primary Result Than Lindsey Graham

John Nichols

12.06.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

The Trump Administration Is Addicted to Violence

Elie Mystal

12.06.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

Black Voters Just Scored a Big Victory—in Alabama

Elie Mystal

27.05.2026 20

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Elie Mystal

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

Tariq Kenney-Shawa

22.05.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

Evacuation Day

Steve Brodner

22.05.2026 40

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Elie Mystal

Why Losing Colbert Hurts So Much

Ben Schwartz

22.05.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

The American Revolution Was a Mistake

Elie Mystal

22.05.2026 30

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Elie Mystal

The January Sixer Behind the Attack on Voting Rights

Elie Mystal

08.05.2026 40

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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