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Mar 11, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Lizzy Ratner
The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. When I ran out of Hart Island leads, I played investigative reporter for a spell, filing a series of records requests with city agencies.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Spencer Ackerman |Atef Abu Saif |Lizzy Ratner |Noy Katsman
World / Column / Adherence to US hegemony determines who does—and does not—get to violate the architecture restraining state violence.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Ahmed Alnaouq |Pam Bailey |Joan Walsh |Lizzy Ratner
Activism / We don’t need to be interrogated on TV about the deaths of our families. We don’t need to be talked about in clinical terms. We just need a chance to tell our stories. Ad PolicyAs the numbers of dead, wounded, and homeless in Gaza mount, surpassing all previous wars against this small strip of land, we can sense a sort of collective numbness beginning to set in among the media, the public, and government leaders.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Lizzy Ratner |Vincent Bevins |Kate Wagner |George de Castro-Day
Comment / The activist and Nation contributor pleaded with the world to stop Israel’s war on Gaza. Then, on October 24, his son was killed.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
thenation.com | John Nichols |Lizzy Ratner |Chris Lehmann |Sean Sherman
Print MagazineEditEditorialThe UAW Has Won a Historic Victory. So What Comes Next? The union’s triumph was a huge step forward in the quest to build a bigger and bolder labor movement. Ahmed Abu Artema Tried to Get the World to Care About Gaza’s PainThe activist and Nation contributor pleaded with the world to stop Israel’s war on Gaza. Then, on October 24, his son was killed.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Calvin Trillin |John Nichols |Lizzy Ratner |Kate Wagner
And then there’s Tommy Tuberville. With rules the Senate favors still,He needs a single poison pillTo block the jobs we need to fill. For Tuberville this is a thrill—And manna for his campaign till. Among his colleagues on the HillRespect for him is nearing nil.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
shorturl.at | Lizzy Ratner |Branko Marcetic |Vincent Bevins |Kate Wagner
Comment / The activist and Nation contributor pleaded with the world to stop Israel’s war on Gaza. Then, on October 24, his son was killed.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jake Werner |Kate Wagner |Lizzy Ratner |Reed Brody
World / We need intelligent dialogue, not crude confrontation. Ad PolicyThe controversy around California Governor Gavin Newsom’s trip to China last week illustrates a knotty problem for progressive politics. Newsom’s office pitched the trip as focused on climate cooperation. Seeming to sideline the points of tension between the United States and China—particularly the Chinese government’s deplorable human rights record—created an immediate backlash within the human rights community.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Asmaa Alkaisi |Michael T. Klare |Lizzy Ratner |Ivana Nikolić Hughes
The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. We’re talking about 3,500 people killed. We’re talking about more than 12,000 people injured. The hospitals have lost control. No functioning, no electricity, no water, nothing.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Lizzy Ratner |Ivana Nikolić Hughes |Christian Ciobanu |Mohammed R Mhawish
Lizzy Ratner: Where am I finding you right now? Jay Saper: I’m currently in Washington, DC, organizing a mass mobilization of Jews coming from across the country to take our voices to Congress and call for an immediate ceasefire. We [want to] make it clear that we, as Jews, will not see violence carried out against another people in our name, that we refuse to allow a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza to unfold. LR: What’s it like to organize in this moment?
