Trump’s unhinged war in Iran is but an escalation of our willful misapprehension of the country’s history and makeup.

Trump’s foreign policy reasoning mirrors the crackpot logic of a runaway authoritarian. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

On the life and work of the pathbreaking French composer.

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Dolores Huerta in her office in Bakersfield, California, on July 21, 2025. On Wednesday, The New York Times published an ...

Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton was buoyed by millions spent by Governor JB Pritzker, but she won a tough race on her ...

Gisele Pelicot has published the book A Hymn to Life in which she recounts her memories of discovering one morning in ...

Nation public health correspondent Gregg Gonsalves is the codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Doing our ...

Laura Flanders speaks with Christopher Armitage and Sumathy Kumar about “soft secession” and building a government that actually works for people.

The recent US military assault on Iran looks like past desperate bids to reclaim fading imperial glory. A plume of smoke rises following a reported explosion in Tehran on February 28, 2026. This ...

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Trump’s Iran war splinters his base.