Elie Mystal

2 weeks ago | thenation.com | Elie Mystal

Society / May 23, 2025 Trump Is Holding International Students at Harvard HostageIn its quest to wreak vengeance on Harvard, the administration may ultimately fail at punishing the university—but it will harm thousands of young people. Ad Policy Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Sophie Park / Getty Images) The current US dictator, Donald Trump, has decided to hold around 6,800 students hostage in order to settle a score with a university he wasn’t smart enough to get into.

2 weeks ago | thenation.com | Elie Mystal

Politics / May 22, 2025 Progressives Need to Stand Up for LaMonica McIverThe charges against McIver are a form of political intimidation—one directed with particular force against Black politicians—but that intimidation will only work if the people don’t have McIver’s back. Ad Policy Rep. LaMonica McIver demands the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting outside an ICE detention prison, Friday, May 9, 2025.

3 weeks ago | thenation.com | Elie Mystal

Objection! / May 13, 2025 An Open Letter to Clarence ThomasAs the Trump administration tries to remake society along apartheid lines, your vote to stop the assault, however unlikely, is absolutely essential. Ad Policy Associate US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.(OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP via Getty Images) This article appears in the June 2025 issue, with the headline “An Open Letter to Clarence Thomas.”I write to you in desperation.

3 weeks ago | breakingdefense.com | David Lat |Elie Mystal |Staci Zaretsky |Kashmir Hill

Defense industry news, analysis and commentary Featured: SOF Week » AOC Europe » Indo-Pacific » News Video: The Weekly Break Out » Some decision-making authorities, previously closely held by the president or secretary of defense, have been delegated to US SPACECOM, according to sources, but military space leaders want more freedom to act. Citing new space-based threats, Rome and Washington pledge to work more closely in orbit and are paving the way for US space launches from Italian soil....

4 weeks ago | thenation.com | Elie Mystal |John Nichols

Obituary / May 9, 2025 David Souter Made the Supreme Court More Ideological by Refusing to Be an IdeologueDavid Souter (1939–2025) liked facts, and facts are anathema to movement conservatives. Ad Policy Supreme Court Justice David Souter. (Diana Walker / Getty Images) Former Supreme Court justice David Souter died on Friday morning at the age of 85. The Supreme Court did not issue a cause of death, reporting only that he died “peacefully” at his home in Concord, New Hampshire.