The Nation Magazine

It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

Physicians, far from resisting fascism, have often been its most eager enforcers. Nearly half of all German doctors joined the Nazi Party—double the proportion of any other profession. We are seeing the same dynamics play out in Trump’s America today.
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Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.

“Starvation and humanitarian aid have been weaponized by the Israel-US-backed GHF, while Israel ices out UNRWA, the humanitarian aid agency with the single longest successful food operation on the planet,” @unrwausa.bsky.social Mara Kronenfeld tells @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Trump’s Fossil Fuel Fanaticism Is Surrending the Future to China If the planet is to survive, the future needs to be green. China seems to get that—but the US is blowing it.

Thanks in part to Trump's fossil fuel fanaticism, China will own the energy future. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

Important article on history of the medical profession and fascism. And courageous resistance. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public The president and his GOP cronies want to tamper with government statistics and use deceptive budget gimmicks to lie about the impact of their massive tax and budget cuts.

How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public @thenation.com [from March] www.thenation.com/article/econ...

It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

When the government obstructs care for trans people, immigrants, and others in need, principled health workers must go underground to carry out our ethical responsibilities.

In The Nation, I argue for all of us to join the Hippocratic underground.
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& #BernieSanders #Gaza

@sanders.senate.gov

“THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO SPEND BILLIONS TO STARVE CHILDREN IN GAZA”

How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory In a series of mid-decade redistricting gambits, state legislatures are looking to rig next year's congressional balloting in advance.

NEW in @thenation.com: GOP gerrymanders will not stop in TX. OH will remap next. FL, IN, MO, NC could follow. KY & NH vulnerable. Mid-decade redistricting will give GOP massive, unearned boost heading into midterms—and frustrated Ds have limited options to retaliate
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Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.

There is a simple way to end the starvation in Gaza: let UNRWA aid trucks in! Some 6000 trucks are waiting just beyond the border with enough food to provide for the entire population of Gaza for three months. @marakronenfeld explains.

It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

As fascism rises in the U.S., healthcare workers need to learn from the history of medical complicity with state violence—from the Nazis to apartheid South Africa and genocidal Israel now—to urgently mobilize a “Hippocratic underground” to protect targeted groups.
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It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

I have an article out today at The Nation on how not to be a Nazi doctor amid rising fascism in the United States. Please share with any doctors, nurses, lab techs, pharmacists, hospital security guards, etc who you may know.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory In a series of mid-decade redistricting gambits, state legislatures are looking to rig next year's congressional balloting in advance.

Republicans, fearful of losing the House next November, have embarked on an audacious and anti-democratic campaign to hold on to their narrow House majority by rigging the midterms in advance.

Forced Starvation Is a Grotesque Inversion of Jewish Traditions I learned from a young age that you shouldn't let your neighbor go hungry. Benjamin Netanyahu would do well to revisit this tradition.

Israel's war on Gaza is a grotesque inversion of Jewish traditions of hospitality, generosity, empathy, and the moral imperative that one doesn’t let one’s neighbor go hungry.

A Majority of Senate Democrats Now Oppose Arms Shipments to Israel "The tide is turning,” says Bernie Sanders. "The American people do not want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza."

A majority of Senate Democrats now oppose arms shipments to Israel. But their leaders are still on the wrong side of history.

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

The Rule of Law is officially dead in the US. How do we know? Here, @elienyc.bsky.social explains what the rule of law actually means and how we know it’s stopped functioning.

The World Court Adds Muscle to the Climate Fight After a “landmark” ruling from the International Court of Justice, journalists can expect more lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.

Experts expect the ICJ ruling will spark more climate lawsuits—beyond the nearly 3,000 already underway in 60 countries. For journalists, every one of these lawsuits is a news story, writes Mark Hertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org.

This Far-Right Movement Is Hijacking Local Churches Local faith leaders are fighting back, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by extremists.

"We need to forge new alliances across racial, religious, geographic, and partisan lines... we can’t concede religion to extremists" @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org

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The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.

I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.

My latest in @thenation.com

With Trump, the US Is Getting a Taste of its Own Medicine The pathological U.S. support for dictatorships in the Middle East is blowing back across the Atlantic Ocean.

Now, you might say that the shoe is on the other foot. What Saied did to Tunisia might as well have been a blueprint for Donald Trump.

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

The Rule of Law is officially dead in the US. How do we know? Here, @elienyc.bsky.social explains what the rule of law actually means and how we know it’s stopped functioning.

“We Make All the Work Possible”: Home Care Workers Speak Out About Coming Medicaid Cuts In-home care workers spoke to The Nation about their fears of ICE’s expansion and losing their jobs and healthcare coverage under the GOP’s shameful law.

For the 60th anniversary of Medicaid/Medicare, I spoke to three devoted careworkers about what the Trump cuts will mean for them--and their clients. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Jay Leno’s Phony Case for Balanced Comedy The former Tonight Show host thinks a dose of bothsidesism will punch up the late-night scene.

my new piece in @thenation.com, up now. no trigger alert: no eddie cantor references in this one. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

How Democrats Could Blow the Midterms With Trump's popularity in freefall, 2026 should be a gimme for the opposition. But there are signs that the Dems could sleepwalk into disaster.

There are ominous warning signs that the 2026 midterms might not be the triumph Democrats are hoping for. That's mostly due to the party's own fecklessness, writes @chrislehmann.bsky.social.

This Far-Right Movement Is Highjacking Local Churches Local faith leaders are fighting back, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by extremists.

Many people join these churches, which have become de facto community centers, for the most human of needs: connection and fellowship. Stick around long enough, though, and you’ll discover an institutional pipeline suffused with toxic theology that funnels people toward Christian nationalism.

Eileen Markey Speaks Truth to Power in The Nation Eileen Markey Speaks Truth to Power in The Nation

Under President Trump’s deportation plan, asylum seekers pursuing legal avenues to immigration routinely face arrest. Associate Professor Eileen Markey (Journalism and Media Studies) investigates their unlawful detention in @thenation.com. www.lehman.edu/news/2025/Ei...

How Democrats Could Blow the Midterms With Trump's popularity in freefall, 2026 should be a gimme for the opposition. But there are signs that the Dems could sleepwalk into disaster.

How the Dems can still fail the midterms: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Jay Leno’s Phony Case for Balanced Comedy The former Tonight Show host thinks a dose of bothsidesism will punch up the late-night scene.

If Jay Leno wants to see more jokes about Democrats, he should help elect more Democrats.

Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive. Trump’s bizarre claim that he fell out with the indicted child sex trafficker because Epstein “stole” workers from Mar-a-Lago only raises more lurid questions.

Some of Trump’s communications people say Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago “for being a creep," but at Monday’s press conference, Trump gave a different explanation—a hauntingly creepy one.

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I had a wonderful conversation with @amylittlefield.bsky.social with @thenation.com and @garinwastaken.bsky.social with @patientforward.bsky.social about why we need to defend all abortions especially abortion later in pregnancy. #podcast

What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions? Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important.

And make sure to read @amylittlefield.bsky.social 's piece in the @thenation.com that was the focus of our conversation www.thenation.com/article/soci...