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Our cover story this month takes on the toxic workplace at Tesla, expertly reported by @brycecovert —plus @mcmansionhell on the tyranny of the kitchen, @coralmerfi on Puerto Rico's fractured healthcare system, @DavidKlion on Biden's foreign policy, and more. Subscribe to read it…
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“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”
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The Harvard Law Review refused to run this piece about genocide in Gaza. The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here:
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We have an announcement!
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By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal.
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Israeli security forces have admitted to deliberately threatening and outing queer Palestinians as a tactic to intimidate them into working as informants.
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A "tender age" six-year-old girl was forced to sign this document after being sexually abused in an immigrant detention center while separated from her mother.
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Student debt cancellation would boost GDP by up to $108 billion a year and would add up to 1.5 million jobs per year.
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We are proud to endorse @BernieSanders for president—again! The democratic socialist is the only candidate with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges of our time.
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By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal.
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Alec Raeshawn Smith, age 26, was found dead in his apartment on June 27. He was rationing his insulin after he aged out of his parent’s insurance coverage.
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We rarely do this—only twice before in 150 years—but today we endorse Bernie Sanders for president:
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The Nation is heartbroken by the news that an Israeli airstrike has seriously injured poet & journalist Ahmed Abu Artema and killed his young son. In his most recent piece, he begged for the world to help Gaza. We share his plea again now.
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Netanyahu is shopping around a proposal to US Congressional leaders to “thin out” Gaza’s population and expel the surviving residents into neighboring countries.
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For too long Palestinian voices have been silenced. The Nation is proud to have brought Mohammed el-Kurd on as Palestine correspondent.
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Israel has targeted courthouses, universities, and legislative halls. It has razed orchards, farmland, and greenhouses. @adamjohnsonCHI writes asks: Does any of this sound like a “hunt for Hamas?"
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"Sanders is uniquely ready to beat Trump because he embodies the opposite of Trumpism."
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Texas Republicans have voted to remove Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream”speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” from Texas social studies curriculum.
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49 years ago today, Fred Hampton was killed by the FBI. In 1976, The Nation published a report on the civil trial that followed, revealing details of COINTELPRO and the gruesome plot to take down the Panthers. Read the full story:
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Turns out the Koch network bankrolled the astroturf backlash against teaching kids about racism.
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Turns out the Koch network bankrolled the astroturf backlash against teaching kids about racism.
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In 1984, Edward Said wrote a landmark essay, “Permission to Narrate,” in which he critiqued the Western media’s biased coverage of Israel-Palestine. Now @m7mdkurd picks up where Said left off in his own essay, “The Right to Speak for Ourselves.
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What made this overnight normalization of white supremacy possible? In their zeal to ignore anything negative about our Ukrainian allies, Western media has decided that a neo-Nazi military formation in a war-torn nation had suddenly stopped being neo-Nazi.
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Single black women aged 36–49, on average, have a net worth of $5, while single white women in the same age group have a net worth of nearly $42,000.
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Bernie Sanders Just Introduced His Free College Tuition Plan
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Dozens of prominent Jewish Americans—including Judith Butler, Tony Kushner, Elliott Gould, Deborah Eisenberg, Molly Crabapple, Ariel Dorfman, and more—have signed an open letter opposing AIPAC's interference in Democratic politics. Read the letter here.
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Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All.
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CNN’s treatment of Sanders raises a major problem that he’s going to have to confront going forward: major players in the mainstream media are clearly unafraid to be cover him in a one-sided manner.
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We are proud to endorse @BernieSanders for president—again! The democratic socialist is the only candidate with a program both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges of our time.
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Make no mistake: the Israeli government is using genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians. We as Jews know all too well how dangerous this rhetoric is, the way in which the unthinkable becomes acceptable when we deny people their humanity.
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We still believe that Biden would be a uniquely weak challenger to Trump, forfeiting the high ground on corruption, the Iraq War, and even #MeToo while being forced to defend his record on mass incarceration, bankruptcy, credit card companies and banks.
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The citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh never voted to be the subjects of Ilham Aliyev’s despotic rule, nor his persecution. They were never part of an independent Azerbaijan. They are just fighting for their freedom, for the right to celebrate the everyday.
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“We cannot in good conscience fund the bombing of Palestinian civilians, including children,” writes Superbowl champion Michael Bennett. “They are all people, all humans.”
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Jonathan Glazer was actually reclaiming his culture from the pampered pro-Israel media prizefighters who argue that Judaism and Zionism are one and the same. To call out this lie is a daring act, and Glazer should be commended, writes @EdgeofSports .
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Bernie Sanders's education platform calls for: ✅ Desegregation ✅ Massive federal investment ✅ Funding special education ✅ Raising teacher salaries to at least $60,000 year ✅ Universal free school meals ✅ Rebuilding decaying school infrastructure
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An investigative report reveals an elaborate covert operation originating in Israel that aimed to use secret intelligence to clandestinely intervene at the highest levels in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump.
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On Monday, Amy Goodman will turn herself in to police in Mandan, North Dakota. Her crime—journalism.
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Kyrsten Sinema—a sitting senator earning a taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000—took a paid internship at a winery last summer. It wasn't even in her state.
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Bernie Sanders wants Election Day to be a holiday, which would dramatically increase turnout.
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Black children have their side of the story too, but they don’t get to go on the Today Show and explain their actions, because they are dead.
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The Nation has learned that Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, has died after a long struggle with esophageal cancer. @JonWiener1 , a friend and co-author, wrote his obit:
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Jimmy Carter Calls for Single Payer
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We are thrilled to welcome Mohammed el-Kurd to The Nation as our first ever Palestine Correspondent.
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Morning. I talked to @TheNation about starting a Palestine Department—something all US outlets should do—and boom, I'm now The Nation's Palestine Correspondent 🥳
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"I have no choice but to continue to speak up, no matter how many times they want to censure me, police me, vilify me," @RashidaTlaib tells us in an exclusive interview.
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There’s too much at stake to let establishment Democrats lead us down the road of failure by selling Joe Biden as safe. He’s not.
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"81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump—more than voted for George W. Bush, an actual evangelical—and now everyone is laughing at them. It’s about time."
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Congress opted to impoverish kids. Or, to be more precise, Republicans and a handful of Democratic allies chose to increase poverty when they rejected efforts by the Biden administration to maintain the child tax credits.
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"There’s so much misery in the world, but we’re investing in nuclear weapons and in missile systems, and we don’t talk about trying to move toward a world of peace." — @BernieSanders
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Everyone’s a Socialist After a Natural Disaster
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The data is out: Americans voted for Trump for this reason.
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We're thrilled to announce that @kenklippenstein is joining our team as our new DC Correspondent. Welcome Ken!
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300,000 registered voters in Wisconsin lacked strict voter ID—Trump won the state by 27,000 votes.
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Biden’s close alliance with Israel has been a lodestar of his work in foreign policy. During Israel’s 1982 war with Lebanon, he went so far as to claim that women and children would be legitimate targets in Israel’s campaign for greater security.
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"If Trump had a brain, even if it was 99 percent cynical, he would come out and say something to unify people. But he doesn’t care about bringing people together. Even now. That’s how deranged he is." — Gregg Popovich
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"I was shocked to hear the 2020 Democratic front-runner tell me to my face to vote for Trump, simply because I pressed him on a question about basic dignity for immigrants."
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China is moving to quash dissent in Hong Kong—without consulting the city's lawmakers. What does this mean for the protest movement?
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Exclusive: A CBP spokesman tells @kenklippenstein that CBP agents were responsible for the arrest of the Portland arrest of a protestor widely seen on social media.
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By a stunning 30-point margin, millennials support a Green New Deal.
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Polls now show that more Americans support impeaching Trump than approve of his presidency.
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A congressional staffer told @kenklippenstein that Rep. Eliot Engel tried to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of her committee assignment.
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Mitch McConnell invariably put party ahead of country and did more long-term damage to American democracy than any senator in modern US history, @NicholsUprising writes.
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"A child born into poverty has almost no chance of getting out of poverty in today’s United States, statistically."
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court set in motion what might just be the biggest judicial power grab since 1803. (That’s a reference to Marbury v. Madison for all history buffs out there.) It’s serious, it’s scary, and @ElieNYC explains it as only he can.
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We're republishing Rashida Tlaib's speech to Congress on the resolution to censure her. "This movement for a cease-fire is much bigger than one person."
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The Houston Texans are telling Bob McNair that they won’t be made to feel like something less than free.
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This is pretty infuriating: top Democrats blocked AOC from the House Energy and Commerce Committee in favor of centrist Kathleen Rice, who voted with Big Pharma instead.
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69 percent of young Americans support single-payer.
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"I’m sick of everybody treating Trump and his bad faith sycophants as if they are babies throwing a series of tantrums... These are grown adults who need to be punished for the violations of laws and codes of ethical conduct." — @ElieNYC
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Columbia neuroscience professor @DrJohnMann told @phileil it would be hard to exactly quantify the impact of John Fetterman’s candor but that he’s sure openness about his battles with depression will save lives. “The guy is a hero,” Dr. Mann said.
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Bernie Sanders Wants to Tell the Story That Corporate Media Fails To
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In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book.
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Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)
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Before all communication was severed with Gaza, Ahmed Nehad, a Palestinian writer and translator, sent out this report. He wanted readers to know: “Gaza is being obliterated, and no global power is doing anything to stop it.”
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Here are the 20 top recipients of NRA cash in congress and their phone numbers. Call them:
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Nearly 3,000 pages of emails reveal that the Department of Education worked with men’s rights groups to rewrite the rules on campus sexual assault and harassment.
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I reminded him that millions of families were separated while he was vice president. That’s when Biden interrupted me and said: “You should vote for Trump.”
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"Fetterman’s total disregard for the Palestinian people and slavish devotion to the Israeli government’s US-funded efforts to exterminate them have left a rotten, stinking mark on his record," writes @GrimKim .
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