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How Will Maine Democrats Go About Replacing Platner?
Maine Democrats are embarking on a two-week sprint to pick a new nominee for one of the year's most important races in the wake of Graham Platner's decision this week to end his Senate campaign after...
This Isn't Journalism
Friday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Carl Cannon, Tom Bevan, and Andrew Walworth break down the media's coverage of socialism as an ideology, as Democrats embrace the idea of government taking ove...
Dam Removals Helped Bring About a Stunning Comeback for Maine’s Alewives
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For a few weeks each summer, the Sebasticook River in Benton, Maine, is pav...
The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 1
Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the world, customers of the cryptocurrency exchange were sudde...
Lawsuit Accuses ICE and Private Prison Contractors of Abusing a Disabled Detainee
On Monday, Ulises Peña López, represented by Disability Law United and Pangea Legal Services, sued the US government and private prison contractors GeoGroup and CoreCivic over his arrest by ICE office...
Nature’s Ingenious Survival Strategies Are No Match for Human Destruction
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Life has colonized every corner of the planet by evolving ingenious survival strat...
How Two Punk Icons Are Giving the Cramps a Second Life
One fall night in 1979, two best friends went to a small club in their hometown of Washington, DC, to see a band. The show was so extraordinary, the band so singular, that decades—and thousands of sho...
ICE Keeps Using the Same Justification for Killing Drivers
On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant and three-decade Houston resident. It was the second ICE-involved shooting th...
Graham Platner Says He’s Out. Now What?
Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign Wednesday night. His announcement came two days after a rape allegation against him was made public in a...
Cuba May Be in Shambles, but Miami’s New Museum Keeps the Bay of Pigs Alive
Eduardo Zayas-Bazán was a 24-year-old lawyer when he left Cuba for the United States and joined about 1,400 other Cuban exiles, who were known as Brigade 2506, to participate in the Bay of Pigs invasi...
When Will Cancer Stop Being “Our Fault”?
Sara Black McCulloch By placing the burden of maintaining one’s health on individuals, we obscure the broader environmental, political, genetic, and social forces that affect our well-being. The...
The Graham Platner Fiasco Proves Messiah Politics Is No Alternative to a Failed Establishment
Jeet Heer Democratic leaders have rightfully lost credibility. But that’s no excuse for political adventurers to seize the moment and pump up false saviors. The post The Graham Platner Fiasco Pro...
MAGA Murder Inc.
Steve Brodner ICE kills again. The post MAGA Murder Inc. appeared first on The Nation.
Walls of Solidarity
Bob Bingenheimer Street art in Barcelona expressing solidarity with Palestine, June 2026. The post Walls of Solidarity appeared first on The Nation.
What One Week of Trump News Says About Our New Normal
Sasha Abramsky Trump’s constant cruelty can make it all seem routine. The post What One Week of Trump News Says About Our New Normal appeared first on The Nation.