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Oct 10, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Michael Massing
Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Michael Massing
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Nadezhda Azhgikhina |Lisa M. Corrigan |Michael Massing |Chris Lehmann
Moscow, Russia—I will never forget the evening after the August coup in Moscow. The people around the White House, who spent three days in the “living ring” of defenders of the young Russian democracy, were beautiful. Never since have I seen so many soulful people together. They were very different people, students, aspiring entrepreneurs, workers, nurses, professors, Muscovites and those who came from other regions of the country. Most of them were young.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Sarang Shidore |Lisa M. Corrigan |Michael Massing |Chris Lehmann
On August 22, South Africa will host the next BRICS summit—bringing together leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—at a time of acute tensions between the United States and its great power rivals China and Russia. But another context for the meeting is the increased salience of the Global South, most sharply revealed by the nuanced reactions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to the Ukraine war.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Victoria Law |Tarpley Hitt |Michael Massing |Itzel Luna
Society / July 28, 2023“[This situation] should make you wonder whether we, as a society, should be incarcerating pregnant people in the first place.”Ad PolicyK. Winston didn’t know she was pregnant when she entered the Cuyahoga County Jail. The intake process required a test for tuberculosis, one that typically involves injecting a fluid beneath the skin. Winston is allergic to that fluid, so jail staff planned to X-ray her instead. First, they gave her a pregnancy test.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Itzel Luna |Michael Massing |Victoria Law |Jeet Heer
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Tarpley Hitt |Michael Massing |Gregg Gonsalves |David Wallace
Barbie did not begin as a doll, but as a kind of page-filler. In the summer of 1952, the German publisher Axel Springer was poised to print a new newspaper—a conservative tabloid based on the British gossip rags angling to compete with the great new medium of the age: television. But just as the first edition hit the presses, Springer and his staff faced a problem.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Andrea Mazzarino |Michael Massing |Sarah Baum |Jorge Cotte
Seeking news coverage aboutthe Adriana, the boat crowded with some 700 people migrating to Europe to seek a better life that sank in mid-June off the coast of Greece, I googled “migrant ship” and got 483,000 search results in one second. Most of the people aboard the Adriana had drowned in the Mediterranean, among them about100 children. I did a similar search forthe Titan submersiblewhich disappeared the same week in the North Atlantic.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Jeet Heer |Michael Massing |Sarah Baum |Jorge Cotte
Dr. Strangelove’s big mistake was going into government work when he could have made much more money in the private sector doing the same job of making the apocalypse palatable. Strangelove—the eponymous antihero of Stanley Kubrick’s lacerating and immortal 1964 film—is a satirical embodiment of the mad logic of nuclear brinksmanship codified under the rules of mutual assured destruction.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Michael Massing |John Nichols |Mychal Denzel Smith
This article appears in the August 7/14, 2023 issue. As the steady drip of revelations over the past few months shows, Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to intellectual, cultural, and financial luminaries were much more extensive than previously known.
