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The federal government has been shut down for more than two weeks. Mehmet Eser/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Mehmet Eser/AFP via Getty Unions representing federal employees say the Trump administration is planning to conduct mass firings at the Interior Department despite a court order temporarily blocking layoffs during the shutdown. The disclosure came amid a legal fight between the administration and two federal employee unions — the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — which sued to block what they call “politically driven RIFs,” or reductions in force. In…

Activism / October 17, 2025 Millions will take to the streets this Saturday to remind Donald Trump that we don’t have monarchs in this country. Ad Policy Demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the final leg of the We Are America March, on September 19, 2025.(Mehmet Eser / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)) In Lubec, Maine, the easternmost municipality of the United States, a good number of the community’s 1,237 residents will gather at 11 am Saturday to deliver a message from just this side of the border with Canada that, despite what an obsessive fan of…

Demonstrators take part in a protest against the Trump administration during the “No Kings” national rally in downtown Los Angeles on June 14, 2025, on the same day as President Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C. Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images Organizers of the “No Kings” protests are projecting that millions of Americans will demonstrate against the policies of the Trump administration on Saturday, amid ongoing ICE arrests and the deployment of National Guard troops to several Democratic-run cities around the country. “The purpose here is to stand in solidarity, to…

Politics / October 16, 2025 Trump’s lapdog defends racist Young Republicans as “boys,” while some are almost his age—as they slur Indian women, like his wife, Usha, as “dirty.” How much did he get for his soul? Ad Policy Vice President JD Vance at the White House.(Alex Wong / Getty Images) At first I saw it as a “dog bites man” story. A posse of “young” Republicans (as old as 40) got caught by Politico on a 28,000-post text thread praising Hitler, threatening their (fellow Republican) enemies with “gas chambers” and “rape,” slurring Black people as monkeys and “watermelon people,”…

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP More than three weeks after winning her congressional race, Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva never imagined her fight to get sworn into office would take this long. The Arizona Democrat has keys to her office, but not much else. “I have no staff … The phones don’t work. There’s no computer,” Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. “We don’t have a government email.” That bumpy start to Grijalva’s new political career in Washington is courtesy of the…

Activism / October 16, 2025 The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy—“antifa”—to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities. Ad Policy A protester in an inflatable frog costume puts a hex on ICE officer at a detention facility in Portland, Oregon, on October 6, 2025.(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland / AFP via Getty Images) Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump administration’s lurid claims that Portland, Oregon, is a “war-torn” city under siege by…

Former national security adviser John Bolton speaks at Duke University in Durham, N.C., on Feb. 17, 2020. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images John Bolton, who served as national security adviser during President Trump’s first term before becoming a vocal critic, was indicted on Thursday on 18 charges related to the mishandling of classified documents. Details from the indictment filed in Maryland’s district court charge Bolton with eight counts for the transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of unlawful retention of such information. Each count faces a maximum of 10…

Letters / October 16, 2025 The Democratic congressman from Tennessee takes issue with our article about his primary opponent. Ad Policy Recently, The Nation ran what appeared to be a PR piece for a young man who is challenging me for Tennessee’s Ninth Congressional District seat [“Why Justin Pearson Wants to Unseat a 10-Term Democratic Incumbent in Congress,” by Chris Lehmann, posted on October 8]. As it is clearly written by someone who knows little about the Memphis area or me, I asked for, and was granted, the opportunity to submit a letter to the editor. The heart that beats…

NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with Sen. Chris Coons, D- Del., about the ongoing government shutdown and what he’s hearing from federal workers in his state. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We’ve been reaching out to members of both parties about what it will take to get a funding bill passed. And this morning, we speak with Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Senator, welcome back.CHRIS COONS: Thanks, Steve. Great to be on with you.INSKEEP: What are you hearing from federal workers in your state now that we’re this far in?COONS: I’m hearing alarm that they’re not…

On October 9, 2025, I returned to New York City alongside eight other members of the US delegation for the Global Sumud Flotilla—an international, civil society–led maritime mission that had aimed to open a humanitarian corridor to deliver aid to the people of Gaza. Two days before, on October 7, we were released from Israel’s Ktzi’ot prison, an internment camp where we were unjustly detained without charges and treated to abusive prison conditions.The flotilla set out for Gaza from a Barcelona port on August 31, and across 31 days, eventually over 40 boats, with over 500 people, sailed together across…