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Our January issue—featuring a package on Los Angeles—is here! Authors within include Bill Gallegos, Sachi Mulkey and Rebecca McCarthy with @grist.org, Jess Bergman, Howard French, and more. www.thenation.com/issue/januar...
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No getting around it: the US is a violent petrostate.
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The US Is a Violent Petro-State
Trump’s attack on Venezuela illustrates fossil fuels’ many perils.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
No getting around it: the US is a violent petrostate.
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European elites are enabling Trump's imperialism. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
European Cowardice Is Empowering Trump’s New Imperialism
NATO allies don’t want to confront Trump’s aggression. But they may ultimately not have a choice.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
European elites are enabling Trump's imperialism. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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ICE relies on companies to help carry out its thuggery — we need to go after these private sector collaborators
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
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Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
ICE relies on companies to help carry out its thuggery — we need to go after these private sector collaborators
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
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I was interviewed in @thenation.com: Trumps "effort to control the Western Hemisphere through fossil fuels further aligns Trump with his favorite authoritarians, Putin and Mohammed bin Salman. It allows [them] to dominate their spheres of influence," Juhasz said.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I was interviewed in @thenation.com: Trumps "effort to control the Western Hemisphere through fossil fuels further aligns Trump with his favorite authoritarians, Putin and Mohammed bin Salman. It allows [them] to dominate their spheres of influence," Juhasz said.
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The commander-in-chief and his allies have deemed women the enemy.
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Trump’s War on Women Somehow Got Worse
The commander in chief and his allies have deemed women the enemy.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM
The commander-in-chief and his allies have deemed women the enemy.
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As US foreign policy shifts into a might-is-right mode that would have been familiar to fascist regimes in 1930s Europe, and as ICE ramps up its murderous activities stateside, I explain what all of this means in my Authoritarian Watch column for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Ugly Beast of American Authoritarianism
Might is right is the philosophy behind the Trump administration’s decision to kidnap Nicolás Maduro.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
As US foreign policy shifts into a might-is-right mode that would have been familiar to fascist regimes in 1930s Europe, and as ICE ramps up its murderous activities stateside, I explain what all of this means in my Authoritarian Watch column for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Protests are important, but @alexvitale.bsky.social told Alyssa Oursler, “we also need organizing,” adding, “There were 10 years between the Montgomery bus boycott and the passage of real civil rights legislation. We need to think in longer time horizons.”
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Minneapolis to ICE: Get the Fuck Out!
An ICE agent shot dead Renee Nicole Good. Residents are ready to fight back.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Protests are important, but @alexvitale.bsky.social told Alyssa Oursler, “we also need organizing,” adding, “There were 10 years between the Montgomery bus boycott and the passage of real civil rights legislation. We need to think in longer time horizons.”
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My latest for The Nation.
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Harvard’s Ouster of Mary Bassett Is a Revolting Act of Cowardice
The public health icon was brutally removed from her job for one reason: her opposition to genocide in Gaza.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:52 AM
My latest for The Nation.
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As more details emerge, the killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent only becomes more and more horrific:
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After the ICE Killing in Minneapolis, Will Truth Prevail?
Can Trump and Kristi Noem maintain their blatant lies in the face of multiple videos that show the victim was trying to drive away when she was shot three times by an ICE agent?
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January 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
As more details emerge, the killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent only becomes more and more horrific:
https://bit.ly/49JQv22
https://bit.ly/49JQv22
As more details emerge, the killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent only becomes more and more horrific:
https://bit.ly/49JQv22
https://bit.ly/49JQv22
After the ICE Killing in Minneapolis, Will Truth Prevail?
Can Trump and Kristi Noem maintain their blatant lies in the face of multiple videos that show the victim was trying to drive away when she was shot three times by an ICE agent?
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January 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
As more details emerge, the killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent only becomes more and more horrific:
https://bit.ly/49JQv22
https://bit.ly/49JQv22
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1,000 people attended @mayorofseattle.bsky.social's inauguration - many of whom had never stepped foot in Seattle City Hall before. And that was the point. It was the point of the campaign, and it's still the point now that our candidate is in office.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:33 AM
1,000 people attended @mayorofseattle.bsky.social's inauguration - many of whom had never stepped foot in Seattle City Hall before. And that was the point. It was the point of the campaign, and it's still the point now that our candidate is in office.
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READ: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges.
Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists.
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Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists.
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Prosecute Renée Nicole Good’s Murderer
The ICE agent who killed Renée Nicole Good not only can be held accountable for murder—he must be.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges.
Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists.
My latest in @thenation.com
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Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists.
My latest in @thenation.com
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I pray that this murderer is brought to justice. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
After the ICE Killing in Minneapolis, Will Truth Prevail?
Can Trump and Kristi Noem maintain their blatant lies in the face of multiple videos that show the victim was trying to drive away when she was shot three times by an ICE agent?
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January 8, 2026 at 3:44 AM
I pray that this murderer is brought to justice. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“Take the oil” was never a metaphor. It was the policy.
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“Take the Oil”
Trump's Venezuelan petroleum fantasies.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
“Take the oil” was never a metaphor. It was the policy.
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The following excerpt from America, América: A New History of the New World is a timely reminder that behind today’s headlines announcing any given crisis in Latin America often stands a long history of imperial outrages.
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Before There Was Nicolás Maduro, There Was Cipriano Castro
Behind today’s headlines is a history of imperial outrage—including a Philadelphia contract man who wreaked havoc in early-20th-century Venezuela and helped oust a president.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The following excerpt from America, América: A New History of the New World is a timely reminder that behind today’s headlines announcing any given crisis in Latin America often stands a long history of imperial outrages.
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The shooter was border patrol. Border patrol loves esalating to violence and has historically always tried jumping in front of vehicles to justify using violence and killing people.
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US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them
An internal review of the US Border Patrol raises serious questions about the agency’s use-of-force policy.
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January 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The shooter was border patrol. Border patrol loves esalating to violence and has historically always tried jumping in front of vehicles to justify using violence and killing people.
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tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...
January 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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I wrote for The Nation about Maduro and the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, and how the West's indifference to the killing of a sovereign state's military commander outside of war paved the way for indifference to the abduction of a sovereign state's president. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Assassination That Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuela Attack
How Trump’s illegal 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani—and the West’s indifferent response—laid the groundwork for the brazen abduction of Nicolás Maduro.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I wrote for The Nation about Maduro and the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, and how the West's indifference to the killing of a sovereign state's military commander outside of war paved the way for indifference to the abduction of a sovereign state's president. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Based on Trump’s zero-sum view of most human interactions, it’s safe to say that his guiding foreign policy doctrine comes from his experience with commercial real estate in New York City, particularly during the peak of his career in the late ‘80s.
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Trump’s Mogul-First Model of Diplomacy
The pundits straining to seek coherence in the new interventionist “Donroe doctrine” would do well to look back to Trump’s roots in New York real estate
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January 7, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Based on Trump’s zero-sum view of most human interactions, it’s safe to say that his guiding foreign policy doctrine comes from his experience with commercial real estate in New York City, particularly during the peak of his career in the late ‘80s.
https://bit.ly/4qLHyLu
https://bit.ly/4qLHyLu
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"The United States of America is a rogue nation, run by a violent criminal who operates outside the rule of law... The United States should be condemned by the international community and all peoples of this earth." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The US Is a Rogue State That Deserves to Be Sanctioned
Where is the international outrage over the US assault on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro?
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January 7, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"The United States of America is a rogue nation, run by a violent criminal who operates outside the rule of law... The United States should be condemned by the international community and all peoples of this earth." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Pundits insinuating that what Trump just did in Venezuela is part of some larger coherent foreign policy strategy as if he and his toadies are poring over tattered copies of Politics Among Nations drives me nuts. So i wrote this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump’s Mogul-First Model of Diplomacy
The pundits straining to seek coherence in the new interventionist “Donroe doctrine” would do well to look back to Trump’s roots in New York real estate
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January 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Pundits insinuating that what Trump just did in Venezuela is part of some larger coherent foreign policy strategy as if he and his toadies are poring over tattered copies of Politics Among Nations drives me nuts. So i wrote this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Over the years, the old story of the artistic ’60s has grown more and more threadbare, but no other story has taken its place. A Whitney show proposes a new history focused on surrealism.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Over the years, the old story of the artistic ’60s has grown more and more threadbare, but no other story has taken its place. A Whitney show proposes a new history focused on surrealism.
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"The Venezuelan coup created the type of ultraviolent spectacle that Trump revels in, but it had little rationale other than providing an advertisement for Trump’s vision of a world of unbridled imperial plunder divided into spheres of influence."
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Donald Trump Is Drunk on War
The Venezuelan coup opens the gates to a new era of imperial plunder.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"The Venezuelan coup created the type of ultraviolent spectacle that Trump revels in, but it had little rationale other than providing an advertisement for Trump’s vision of a world of unbridled imperial plunder divided into spheres of influence."
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Dems dither over Venezuela: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Democrats Are Doing What They Do Best on Venezuela: Nothing
Donald Trump staged an illegal coup. Chuck Schumer’s response? Empty words and meaningless parliamentary maneuvers.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Dems dither over Venezuela: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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"UAW Region 9A's endorsement of @bradlander.bsky.social over one of the wealthiest members of Congress signals that pro-labor voting records alone no longer guarantee labor’s backing."
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Dan Goldman Voted With Labor. The UAW Is Still Choosing Brad Lander.
UAW Region 9A’s endorsement of Lander over one of the wealthiest members of Congress signals that pro-labor voting records alone no longer guarantee labor’s backing.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:37 PM
"UAW Region 9A's endorsement of @bradlander.bsky.social over one of the wealthiest members of Congress signals that pro-labor voting records alone no longer guarantee labor’s backing."
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