"What is it people encounter in their stark and voluntary 4 a.m. self? What is inside them? Not politics." —Sadie Smith, the protagonist of "Creation Lake" – Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel – on The Nation podcast bit.ly/3zfc1w3 Simon & Schuster

James C. Scott, who died last month, was a double agent, writes Ben Mauk. Scott was, according to Stanley Diamond, among the greatest plumbers in our lifetime of the “sinks and margins of the capitalist, industrial world.” thenation.com/article/societ…

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From The Nation: How a Probation Violation Turns Into Indefinite Jail Time by Katie Rose Quandt Probation detainers are forcing tens of thousands of people to remain in jail indefinitely. #Longreads #Longform thenation.com/article/societ…

Dylan wrote a great piece about this for The Nation back in February thenation.com/article/politi…

This week on "Start Making Sense," Rachel Kushner talks about an informant and provocateur who infiltrates an anarchist eco-commune in rural France—the central character in her new novel, "Creation Lake." bit.ly/3XvVope

My feature piece in The Nation is up about Republican state attorneys general. I have focused on the MAGA authoritarians running this year to be your state's top prosecutor. Please read... and vote... in ALL the elections on your ballot. thenation.com/article/politi…

Conservative elected officials, sheriffs, and Republican Party offices are tacitly, and sometimes even explicitly, cooperating with, encouraging and supporting militia groups. bit.ly/3ZfpI8X

From Palestine, Sunita Viswanath writes as part of an interfaith peace delegation calling for an immediate ceasefire and an arms embargo: bit.ly/4gaBibB

“Audre Lorde should have thousands of biographies—such a rich life and a profoundly rich archive.” bit.ly/3XgaNZs

After more than a month, Donald Trump still has not figured out how to run against Kamala Harris. bit.ly/3MAIJey

Keeping clinics open “needs to be both a philanthropy and political priority." bit.ly/3z5HYac

“Should we need to mobilize again, we will come back stronger, because we have to," said an organizer at Trinity College Dublin who helped secure an agreement with the school to divest from Israel. "We owe it to the Palestinian people.” bit.ly/47lSQO0

I took Scott's seminar in college. A towering intellect, soft-spoken, wise, brimming with empathy. His skepticism of power was only eclipsed by his love of humanity. RIP thenation.com/article/societ…

Having recently witnessed an 3-pickup truck convoy of armed MAGA dudes slow roll thru a National Forest campground at dusk, this feels all too real ... thenation.com/article/societ…

The membrane that has long separated the state and local governments from non-governmental and private ultra-right actors, including violence-prone ones, is becoming increasingly porous. bit.ly/3ZfpI8X

The 920 page document—also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project—has become a household name, and has garnered negative responses from Americans on both sides of the aisle for some of its extreme policies. bit.ly/3ARPvdm

As a child, Barry Yourgrau grew up on tales of his father’s youth in Weimar Germany as a fierce anti-fascist. It was only later that he learned of his father’s time in Palestine warning of another kind of toxic nationalism. Here he sorts through the pieces bit.ly/3z2Db9A

“Nothing short of an overhaul of the way we pay for healthcare and the way that people access care is going to be a long-term solution," says Diane Horvath, MD, MPH. bit.ly/3z5HYac