The Nation
Election 2024: How Did We Get Here?

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- Election 2024: How Did We Get Here?
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- On October 24, 2024 The Nation convened a panel of political writers and thinkers to talk about what they’ve been paying most attention to in the weeks before the election, what they’re most afraid of and what has been giving them the most hope. The wide-ranging conversation featured Katrina vanden Heuvel, Elie Mystal, Bhaskar Sunkara, Christina Greer and D.D. Guttenplan as well as thirty minutes of very smart audience questions.

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- Developing a Beat, Establishing a Voice and Launching a Career
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The annual Puffin Nation student journalism conference on May 31, 2024 featured writers and editors from The Nation and publications like The Intercept, Teen Vogue, Grist and Mother Jones engaging with more than 100 student journalists on a range of subjects, practical and political. Here, a group of young writers discusses how they broke in and what they wish they knew when they were starting out. Featuring Jake Bittle (Grist), Amy Littlefield (The Nation), Luis Feliz Leon (Labor Notes), Zoya Qureshi (The Atlantic) and moderated by Bhaskar Sunkara, president, The Nation.

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- Minority Rule and How to Report On It
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The annual Puffin Nation student journalism conference on May 31, 2024 featured writers and editors from The Nation and publications like The Intercept, Teen Vogue, Grist and Mother Jones engaging with more than 100 student journalists on a range of subjects, practical and political. Here, Nation Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal and author Mother Jones voting rights report Ari Berman talk about the importance and challenges of covering the supreme court, vlrigtn rights and the myriad threats to democracy marking our current electoral season.

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- Covering Solidarity, Suppression and Genocide
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The annual Puffin Nation student journalism conference on May 31, 2024 featured writers and editors from The Nation and publications like The Intercept, Teen Vogue, Grist and Mother Jones engaging with more than 100 student journalists on a range of subjects, practical and political. Here, Laila Al-Arian, Sarah Aziza, Dave Zirin, Lara-Nour Walton and Lizzy Ratner discuss media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and related protests calling for a ceasefire.

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- The Nation and Movements
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The annual Puffin Nation student journalism conference on May 31, 2024 featured writers and editors from The Nation and publications like The Intercept, Teen Vogue, Grist and Mother Jones engaging with more than 100 student journalists on a range of subjects, practical and political. Here, Nation publisher and editorial director Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about the history of The Nation and its vision of the role of independent journalism.

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- Ukrainians in Exile: A Short Documentary Film
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Released upon the second anniversary of Russia's initial attack on Ukraine.
We follow Anya, a woman residing in Ukraine during the early stages of the war. She sheds light on how the the crisis has completely upended her life, and contemplates how countries will treat her fellow Ukrainians who were forced to flee.
BlueCheck Ukraine: www.bluecheck.in/donate
Executive Produced by 2-time Oscar winner Janusz Kaminski.
Director: Janek Ambros
Writer/Narrator: Anya
Executive Producer: Janusz Kaminski
Executive Producer: Robbie Leacock.
Read more at The Nation: www.thenation.com/ukrainedoc
Instagram: @assemblylineent @bluecheckukraine @nationmag
Twitter: @janekambros88 @thenation

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- Oppart: Peace, Now!
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Focus on love, compassion, humanity.
Artwork by: Andrea Arroyo

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- Can We Talk About Palestine?
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On December 14th, 2023, The Nation hosted this panel discussion, “Can We Talk About Palestine?”
Panelists Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mohammed el-Kurd, Radhika Sainath and Nathan Thrall discuss free speech, journalism and censorship in a conversation moderated by D. D. Guttenplan and hosted by Katrina vanden Heuvel.
The accepted parameters of debate on the Middle East have drawn far narrower amid banings, cancellations, firings, violent rhetoric, and even prosecutions of those standing against the horrors in Gaza. Students have been doxxed and lost jobs for expressing pro-Palestinian viewpoints, writers and journalists have been banned from speaking. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen had a major New York City appearance canceled after he signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. At the same time, anti-semitic incidents have skyrocketed and many Jewish students report heightened fear and harassment. How to respond? How can we preserve f...

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- Oppart: Give Peace a Chance
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Crossword: Peace shouldn’t be a puzzle.
Artwork by: Andrea Arroyo

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- EXCLUSIVE Interview with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In late September, The Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and editor D.D. Guttenplan met with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel for an exclusive interview in New York.
It was the President’s first ever interview in the US. They discussed the economic crisis facing his island nation, the future of its socialist model, and the impact of continued hostility from Washington.
Read the full interview here: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/interview-cuban-president-diaz-canel/

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- How Oppenheimer Went From Biography to Biopic
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Kai Bird, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus, joins The Nation’s Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and Editor D.D. Guttenplan for a conversation on how his book became a blockbuster.
Watch the full conversation here: https://youtu.be/h59RM2bbzlY

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- The Nation Poetry Reading Series: Maggie Smith, Charif Shanahan, and Omotara James
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A virtual reading featuring poets from the Nation magazine’s pages hosted by Nation Poetry Editor Kaveh Akbar on June 29, 2023.
Maggie Smith is the author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, an instant New York Times bestseller, and five other books of poetry and prose: Goldenrod, Keep Moving, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The Best American Poetry, and more. She lives in Ohio with her two children.
Charif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House, 2023) and Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry/SIU Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. Charif is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship fro...

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- Opp Art: A Ukrainian Lullaby
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A Dream Passes By The Windows
Credit: Paul Karasik

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- The Nakba Explained
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- May 15th is the day commemorating the Nakba—a term used to denote Palestinians’ forced expulsion from their homeland by Zionist forces in 1948.
It's been 75 years since the event Palestinians know as “the Catastrophe,” but dispossession has become a timeless theme of the Palestinian experience.
In this video, the Nation's Palestine correspondent, Mohammed El-Kurd answers the question, "What is the Nakba?" and shows how it never really ended.

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- Nation Conversation: Can Donald Trump Be Brought to Justice?
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Featuring Joan Walsh, Chris Lehmann, and Elie Mystal in a roundtable conversation unpacking the first real attempt to hold Trump legally accountable for any of his many alleged crimes. Will the indictment open the door to weightier prosecutions in the Georgia and federal cases? Or will the extortion charge work to undermine more consequential pending actions against Trump? How, ultimately, might this impact Trump’s run for the White House in 2024? They discuss all this in more in a conversation moderated by D.D. Guttenplan and hosted by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

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- The Nation Spring Poetry Reading with Martín Espada, Danez Smith, and Maggie Millner
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- These Guardian Watchmen Are Taking Marine Conservation Into Their Own Hands
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The Kitasoo Xai’xais hereditary leadership took an unusual step in June 2022 and closed off the Kitasu Bay to all fisheries by declaring it an indigenous Marine Protected Area.
To protect the bay and wider traditional territory, the Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nations employ Guardian Watchmen, a trained crew that patrols and stewards land and water.
In a historic move, BC Park Ranger status will be assigned to select guardian watchmen as part of a two-year pilot program, based on a memorandum of understanding signed in 2022 between the provincial government and the Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation.
Video by:
Ali Withers and Ed Ou
Story Editor:
Ludwig Hurtado
Read the full story at https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/indigenous-protected-areas/
Made possible with support from the the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources.

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- You Voted To Form a Union. Now What?
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- You won your vote to start a union.. Now comes the hard part.
Negotiations aren’t easy. A year after workers vote to unionize, more than half still don’t have a contract.
After a year without a contract, management can push to legally dissolve a hard-won union.
Reaching a good contract matters—so how do we get there? The Nation’s Strikes Correspondent, Jane McAlevey explains 3 core principles that can help workers win better contracts, faster.
CREDITS:
Host: Jane McAlevey
Senior Producer: Ludwig Hurtado
Associate Producer: Lucy Dean-Stockton
Research: Karen Ng, Finley Muratova
Graphics: Drew Evans

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- NO SAFE PLACE TO HIDE - a response to NYC's nuclear war PSA
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Have we forgotten there is no safe place to hide in a nuclear war?
Inform yourself of the facts:
• Alliance for Science – What the science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war? - https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/03/what-the-science-says-could-humans-survive-a-nuclear-war-between-nato-and-russia/
• ICAN (The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) - https://www.icanw.org/
• PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility) - https://www.psr.org/
• Defuse Nuclear War - https://defusenuclearwar.org/
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - https://www.ippnw.org/
• Television Event (2021) - https://geni.us/televisionevent

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- OppArt: Show Me.
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- All too true.
Video by Ben Hillman.

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- After Roe: An Urgent Conversation
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- It now appears virtually certain that the Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v Wade, throwing huge swaths of the country into abortion deserts and moving the immediate fight to defend reproductive rights to the states. Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Elie Mystal, and Regina Mahone discuss what comes next and how we can best oppose the restrictions on abortion rights.

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- After Amazon: Unions, Capitalism and the Future of the Labor Movement
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- From baristas to housekeepers, from taxi drivers to Amazon workers, working people are taking on the behemoths of American capitalism. And they are winning. Why are these nascent organizing efforts succeeding? What do they mean for the future of the labor movement in America? And how can concerned citizens join together to support them?
Scholars and organizers from across the labor movement joined The Nation for this special conversation about how we can make sense of workers’ recent victories and explore strategies for building on them.

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- Art Spiegelman and Viet Thanh Nguyen: Why Banning Books Never Works
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Art Spiegelman and Viet Thanh Nguyen talk about book bans and how we can effectively oppose our country’s creeping cultural censorship.

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- Elie Mystal in conversation with Dahlia Lithwick
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Nation’s Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal joins Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick to discuss modern originalism and the importance of critiquing the Constitution’s origins.

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- OppArt: Burning Planet
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Video by Alessandra Mondolfi

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- Climate Action: How Divest Harvard Won
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description

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- Crisis Ignored: Coastal Landfills Meet Rising Seas
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- There are around 100,000 landfills in the US, around half in low-lying coastal areas—no one knows the real number because no agency has done a comprehensive survey of these toxic sites. As sea levels rise, many of these coastal landfills threaten to poison surrounding communities.
To read the full story by Dave Lindorff, visit https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/coastal-landfill-climate-change/
Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com

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- The Sea Is Moving In on New Jersey's Biggest Landfill
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Middlesex County Sanitary Landfill is the largest operating dump in the state. As sea levels rise, this landfill could be inundated with flood water.
Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com

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- Mt. Trashmore Went From a Dump to a Park—But For How Long?
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In Virginia Beach, an old municipal waste dump was turned into a public park. It's a draw for residents and visitors, but all the waste hidden away in this mound won't stay buried as sea levels rise.
Video by Jed Lindorff www.jedlindorff.com

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- Wallace Shawn: Making Room for Art
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
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- Anti-Imperialism in the 21st Century
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Is internationalism—once the standard for the global left—still a viable idea in today’s multipolar world? And, if so, how can it best be achieved? What would a progressive US foreign policy look like? And what lessons can be learned from Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Is intervention by the US ever justified–and if so, under what conditions? Watch the debate moderated by D.D. Guttenplan with Gilbert Achcar, Nadje Al-Ali, Phyllis Bennis, Bill Fletcher, Jr.—all deeply-informed experts on US foreign-policy, the Middle East and the global left.
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- Chloe Maxmin: How a Climate-Justice Champion Can Win in Rural America
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- COVID: Drawn from Experience
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Directed by Rafe Scobey Thal; Animated by by Luca Valente;
Produced by #MeWeSyria, and #MeWeMexico, and
#MeWeHonduras community leaders Fernando Camacho,
Nadine Hraki, Ola Ali, Sandra Hernandez, Sara Killawi,
#MeWeIntl, and Rafe Scobey Thal

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- Parenting From Prison: Chesa Boudin, Sylvia A. Harvey, and Dani McClain
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- For San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, his mother and father were radical not for their militant New Left politics but for the extraordinary lengths they took to parent him while incarcerated. When a parent commits a crime, the system overlooks their parental obligations—and the rights of the children left behind—in favor of punishment. Boudin detailed what this meant for him personally in The Nation’s first-ever special issue on parenting.
Boudin joins Sylvia A. Harvey, author of The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family, and a longtime expert on the intersection of race, class, policy, and incarceration, to share stories of parental love strong enough to scale prison walls, and to talk about how Boudin’s experience with his parents’ imprisonment has informed his groundbreaking work as San Francisco’s District Attorney.
This conversation is moderated by Dani McClain and hosted by Katrina vanden Heuvel.
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- Kathryn Garcia: The Nation 2021 NYC Mayoral Forum
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Watch the full forum here: https://youtu.be/KzvV3CfaPgU
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- New York City Mayor's Race: The Nation Forum
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Featuring Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia, Scott Stringer and Maya Wiley, The Nation’s Mayoral Forum gives progressive voters an opportunity to hear some of the contenders share their vision for the future of New York City. Each candidate speaks about why their campaign deserves the support of the progressive community, and Katrina vanden Heuvel and D.D. Guttenplan moderate a short group discussion before we invite our audience to participate in a real-time Q&A session.
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- Police Lie
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- By Alessandra Mondolfi

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- Sister Helen Prejean: The Death Penalty’s Fundamental Flaws
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
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- Jimmy Tobias: Can We Prevent the Next Pandemic?
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Jimmy Tobias, an award-winning investigative journalist, leads a crucial conversation about his months-long investigation on One Health, an international movement to address human encroachment on natural ecosystems and the possibility of future pandemics like Covid-19. He is joined by Nation Senior Editor Lizzy Ratner, and Nation Editorial Director and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel.
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- Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Power and Beauty of FOIA
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Ken Klippenstein, The Nation’s Washington Editor, explains why FOIA is so important and how FOIA requests can function as invaluable journalistic tools to help hold the powerful accountable.

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- Katrín Jakobsdóttir in Conversation With John Nichols | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Alicia Garza & Elie Mystal: How to Build Movements for the 21st Century | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
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- Elie Mystal: The Republicans are devastatingly effective.
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Elie Mystal, Justice Correspondent for The Nation, explains how we must be vigilant about protecting our rights during the corona emergency, how Republicans are taking advantage of this moment to target abortion access, and how critical the 2020 election is to taking back the courts. (He even threatens to address parenting without murdering your children or getting fired from your job!)

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- Bill McKibben: The Future of the Planet | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
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- Ken Klippenstein | The Nation Festival
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
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- Tokata Iron Eyes: Landback!
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- This conversation was part of The Nation's first-ever Festival, featuring speakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Alicia Garza, Rev. William Barber, and many more. The entire four-day video archive is available at www.thenation.com/festival.
Lakota Sioux Standing Rock Activists Tokata Iron Eyes and Chase Iron Eyes, and Journalist Naomi Klein joined moderator and Nation Contributor Zoë Carpenter for an urgent discussion about Indigenous rights, the climate crisis, environmental activism, and what's next beyond Standing Rock.

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- Calvin Trillin: Happy Thanksgiving! Serve Some Spaghetti Carbonara
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Rick Steves: Travel as a Political Act
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- This conversation was part of The Nation's first-ever Festival, featuring speakers like Naomi Klein, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Alicia Garza, Rev. William Barber, and many more! The entire four-day video archive is available at www.thenation.com/festival
North American Travel expert Rick Steves joins frequent Nation Contributor Sasha Abramsky to discuss why and how travel can be a political act, traveling mindfully and ethically, and the hidden joys of isolation amidst Covid-19.

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- Jamaal Bowman: Legislating Radical Change
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- A first-time congressional candidate with a fiery progressive and anti-establishment message, Jamaal Bowman unseated long-time incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel in the democratic primary for New York’s 16th congressional district this past July, and on Nov. 3, he is expected to become a new member of the House of Representatives. With the most critical election of our lifetimes marked with disorder and uncertainty, Bowman joins Nation director and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel to discuss what’s next for the growing progressive insurgency, and what we can do to ensure the progressive policies that can make the biggest difference in everyday lives win out in November—no matter the result.