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The dozen donors gave a combined $3.4 billion to national candidates and causes.

The U.S. death rate in 2020 was the highest above normal since the early 1900s — even surpassing the calamity of the 1918 flu pandemic.

"I came to organizing both from a class perspective and also just growing up post-9/11 as a Muslim New Yorker,” the candidate told The Nation. She founded a women’s self-defense group after she was assaulted on the street for wearing a hijab...

With shootings in the city on the rise, trust in the police has nearly bottomed out.

If Biden and Harris are serious about addressing migration, they must go beyond the pitifully small increases in humanitarian aid to Central America to end more than 200 years of invasions that are at the root of these causes.

That alarms us. Because in medicine, nearly everything we do is based on evidence. And the evidence that is weighed most heavily are the data published in our field’s top journals.

Western counterterrorism policy in the Sahel has failed, being both over-militarized and ineffective. All suggest, in slightly varying language, that policy must be “rebalanced” or “rethought” to emphasize diplomacy and good governance.

How will we use our talents and skills to best meet the challenges of these times? How will we do what the movement most needs us to do? The answers can only be unearthed in community, within organizations, or the circles to which we are accountable.

Our analysis provides striking evidence of the failure of leading medical journals to publish extant scientific research on racism and health.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.