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Students walk past Royce Hall on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Aug. 15, 2024. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption toggle caption Damian Dovarganes/AP The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late Friday in a sharply worded decision. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction barring the administration from cancelling funding to UC based on alleged discrimination without giving notice to affected faculty and conducting a hearing, among other requirements.…

November 15, 2025 Take it from me: A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism. Ad Policy Hello girls at the New Yorker Hotel work on Daily News Crossword Puzzle Contest. (Larry Froeber / NY Daily News Archive / Getty Images) This essay is drawn from Natan Last’s forthcoming book Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle.  In 2009, the year I turned 18, I was a summer intern to Will Shortz, NPR’s “Puzzlemaster” and longtime editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle.…

Lara Smith, national spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club, says membership has surged since President Trump’s election last year. She says people of color and trans people have sought training after receiving threats in their communities. Hadassah Grout Photography hide caption toggle caption Hadassah Grout Photography When Charles was growing up in the 1970s in Brooklyn, N.Y., his mother was so strict, she forbade toy guns of any kind, including squirt guns. “I remember vividly, summertime, when my friends would have water gun fights and I couldn’t participate,” he recalls. He grew up and became a doctor, and these days,…

World / November 14, 2025 The Americans recently relocating to San Miguel de Allende are a new kind of “expat,” a word they refuse to call themselves. Ad Policy Newcomers to San Miguel consider themselves immigrants, eschewing the term “expat” as it is both a colonized word and doesn’t accurately reflect the literal meaning: someone relocated out of the country by their jobs. In the colorful town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with its temperate weather and stunning architecture, people spend their days relaxing on park benches that front La Parroquía, a towering neo-Gothic church of pink stone, which…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., presides over a House Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington. Rod Lamkey/AP hide caption toggle caption Rod Lamkey/AP President Donald Trump has publicly called it quits with one of his most stalwart MAGA-world supporters, calling Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “‘Wacky’ Marjorie” and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in next year’s midterms “if the right person runs.” The dismissal of Greene — once the epitome of “Make America Great Again,” sporting the signature red cap for President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address and acting as a…

Politics / November 14, 2025 Anti-Blackness and race hate increasingly seem to be a rite of passage for white folks, no matter where they end up on the political spectrum. Ad Policy (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) I’ve been thinking how every few months, seemingly like clockwork, some public figure’s old racist messages are suddenly made new again. Most recently, the leaders of Young Republican chapters around the country got busted for their racist and antisemitic texts—including proclaiming “I love Hitler”—in their group chats, but it’s not like they’re the only ones. I’m not even referring to the second batch…

Kansas state Rep. Mark Schreiber, seen here in 2023, was one of 10 Republican holdouts in the chamber for a special session on redistricting. John Hanna/AP hide caption toggle caption John Hanna/AP In September, Kansas Republican leaders said they wanted to join the national redistricting battle, initiated by President Trump, for control of the U.S. House. But even in a state that went for Trump by 16 percentage points in 2024, Republicans could not rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. “I haven’t heard a good reason yet to vote for it,” said Mark Schreiber, one…

Politics / November 14, 2025 In this week’s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent digs into the fallout from the Democrats’ shutdown letdown. Plus: why the SNAP fight is far from over—and Kim Kardashian shouldn’t become a lawyer. Ad Policy Kim Kardashian attends a discussion on criminal justice reform hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris on April 25, 2024. This is a preview of Nation Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter. Click here to receive this newsletter in your inbox each Friday. The SNAP saga is over for now. Kind of. The Trump administration used the government shutdown to cancel funding for the…

Tents are set up in a homeless encampment along a Los Angeles freeway in May. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption toggle caption Damian Dovarganes/AP The Trump administration is upending its homelessness policy, with deep cuts to funding for long-term housing. Instead, it will shift money toward transitional housing that requires work and addiction treatment. In a statement, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the new policies will “restore accountability” and promote “self-sufficiency” by addressing the “root causes of homelessness, including illicit drugs and mental illness.” It also noted that overall homelessness funding is going up, from $3.6 billion to…

Politics / November 14, 2025 Last week’s elections showed that the GOP can’t afford to keep demonizing urban America. Ad Policy An anti-ICE demonstration in Manhattan last month(Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images) The GOP’s contempt for cities will destroy their winning 2024 coalition Last Tuesday, Republicans got absolutely hosed pretty much anywhere they were on the ballot—a result that provided the first incontrovertible evidence, beyond the endless downward churn of Donald Trump’s approval polling, that a majority of Americans are deeply displeased with his second siege on the federal government. One significant reason for those losses is that…