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The Supreme Court Has Completed Its Quest to Kill the Voting Rights Act
5+ hour, 2+ min ago (29+ words) In its 63 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this country'and once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power....
Endless Gun Violence
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (51+ words) The Nation Endless inaction by Congress. Check out all installments in the Opp Art series. Tjeerd Royaards Twitter Tjeerd Royaards is an award-winning editorial cartoonist from Amsterdam; he's also editor in chief of Cartoon Movement, a global platform for editorial…...
A Desperate Trump Is Stirring Up Race Hatred
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (453+ words) A barrage of bad economic news has spurred Trump to unleash his hate-infested id on any nonwhite target that flits through his overtaxed brainpan. Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House, on December 2, 2025. Of course, things weren't…...
Flying While Brown and Bearded
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (723+ words) The director of the FBI and the mayor of the largest city in America now look like me. When will TSA stop singling us out? As the officer flipped through my passport with squinted eyes, I tried to assume an…...
The Blood Diamonds of Brazil
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (328+ words) When an Amazonian tribe tried to regulate the mines on their territory, they invited the violence of modern life into their homeland. This wasn't their first time in the spotlight. Four decades earlier, a dozen of their own were massacred…...
Bloody Line In The Sand
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (99+ words) Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed that independent journalism has the capacity to bring about a more democratic and equitable world. Tjeerd Royaards Tjeerd Royaards is an award-winning editorial cartoonist from Amsterdam; he's also editor in chief…...
How the People of the Chagos Islands Won Back the Right to Return to Their Homelands
10+ mon, 3+ day ago (1510+ words) After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world. Forcibly removed from the Chagos Archipelago more than 40 years ago, Chagos islanders protest outside the High Court in London, Wednesday, May 2, 2007. At a…...
Denying People Freedom of Movement Is a Form of Global Apartheid
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (884+ words) Forcing people to move or prohibiting their mobility are two sides of the same colonial or neocolonial coin. A migrant child sits in the back of a border patrol vehicle after being apprehended by US Customs and Border protection officers…...
Captured in the Rapture
11+ mon, 6+ day ago (200+ words) Steve Brodner "Spitting image. The post Captured in the Rapture appeared first on The Nation. New to The Nation? Subscribe Captured in the Rapture To oppose the Israeli government is to oppose the greatest generator of antisemitism in the world....
The Real Reason Those White South Africans Are Here
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (1069+ words) Hint: it's not because they're actually being persecuted. Afrikaners from South Africa arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport. The 59 white South Africans who landed at Dulles. .. New to The Nation? Subscribe The Real Reason Those White South Africans Are…...