Category: Politics

  • The Mayorkas Impeachment Is Just the Latest GOP Stunt

    The Mayorkas Impeachment Is Just the Latest GOP Stunt

    [ad_1] Politics / February 15, 2024 The inquisition of the secretary of Homeland Security, without any evidence to speak of, does little other than rile up the MAGA base—and its leader. Ad Policy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is sworn in during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on November 15,…

  • Gaza Citizens Are Starving | The Nation

    Gaza Citizens Are Starving | The Nation

    [ad_1] Tayseer BarakatTayseer Barakat was born in Jabaliye Refugee Camp in Gaza in 1959. In 1983, he graduated from the College of Fine Arts in Alexandria, Egypt. Directly afterward, he went to the village of Deir Ghassaneh in the West Bank, where he completed 15 works in one month and had his first one-artist exhibition…

  • What Happened to the Democratic Majority?

    What Happened to the Democratic Majority?

    [ad_1] Do political parties make coalitions, or do coalitions make political parties? In American electoral commentary, the commonsense view is that parties stand for certain principles or policies—on gun control, say, or taxes, or abortion—and then ordinary voters line up with the party that is closest to their own beliefs. But for Karl Marx and…

  • How Biden Can Win | The Nation

    How Biden Can Win | The Nation

    [ad_1] Editorial / February 19, 2024 The key play is to make the race about Trump’s utter contempt for the core values of the American experiment. Ad Policy US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One before departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on February 16, 2024. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)…

  • Will a Florida Ballot Measure to Protect Abortion Shake Up the State’s Politics This November?

    Will a Florida Ballot Measure to Protect Abortion Shake Up the State’s Politics This November?

    [ad_1] A Lee County, Fla., election official sets up signs at a polling station in October 2022. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check…

  • Donald Trump Makes a Mockery of the Constitution

    Donald Trump Makes a Mockery of the Constitution

    [ad_1] February 15, 2024 His determination to put the 14th Amendment in the trash can of history should draw the most concern. Ad Policy Former president Donald Trump speaks during a visit to a Team Trump Volunteer Leadership Training, at the Grimes Community Complex in Grimes, Iowa, on Thursday, June 1, 2023. (Al Drago /…

  • Urban Surveillance Is More Menacing Than Ever

    Urban Surveillance Is More Menacing Than Ever

    [ad_1] Society / Column / February 16, 2024 Cameras aren’t just monitoring us in public—now they’re actually yelling at us. Ad Policy (Shutterstock) Last week, as I was walking to the used bookstore during my lunch break, a startling voice yelled at me. The voice was not human but, like Siri and many other digital…

  • Musk Oil

    Musk Oil

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  • Donald Trump Threatens to Start a Global Protection Racket

    Donald Trump Threatens to Start a Global Protection Racket

    [ad_1] Politics / February 16, 2024 His promise to abandon NATO members who fall short of military spending targets puts international stability at risk. Ad Policy Donald Trump holds a baseball bat while participating in an event in the Blue Room of the White House in 2017. (Andrew Harrer-Pool / Getty Images) As I look…

  • Jon Stewart Is Not the Enemy

    Jon Stewart Is Not the Enemy

    [ad_1] Politics / February 16, 2024 You don’t defeat Trump by rejecting comedy. Ad Policy Democrats should not be afraid of Jon Stewart. (Matt Wilson / Comedy Central’s The Daily Show) It was the quip that saved a presidency: In 1984, Ronald Reagan’s triumphant march to reelection faltered as concerns emerged about the president’s age…