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In his final months in office, French president Emmanuel Macron is staring down a cost of living crisis and a deepening fiscal gulf, with more and more French people feeling economically insecure. My latest for @thenation co-authored with @LoperJune : thenation.com/article/world/…

Read our interview with historian Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi about the generations of US presidents who have tried to destroy the Iranian regime: thenation.com/article/world/…

Between a budget crisis and a cost-of-living squeeze, Macron is leaving a country feeling more insecure than ever—and ready to take to the streets. thenation.com/article/world/…

Disillusioned with the nuclear family and apprehensive of tethering their reproductive futures to the bleak hellscape of modern love, young people are seeking a different way. thenation.com/article/societ…

Two years after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina is still struggling to rebuild. Trump’s handpicked “recovery czar,” Michael Whatley, is in a close race for the North Carolina Senate seat, putting his record on Helene under scrutiny. His Democratic opponent Roy Cooper says "so far, he has failed miserably." thenation.com/article/enviro…

Newsom is not ready to say whether he himself will run in 2028. He will only do so, he said, if he decides that “I have something unique that [other candidates] don’t, a voice, experience, perspective, capacity that is distinctive and adds value.” thenation.com/article/enviro…

It’s time to impeach the judges! thenation.com/article/politi…

It was just one more of many examples of the president mirroring a fascist leadership. thenation.com/article/politi…

Two years after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina’s recovery remains painfully slow and uneven. Earlier this month, in a piece published jointly in The Nation and @facingsouth, @chriskromm wrote about how the state has become a testing ground for what happens when increasingly destructive disasters collide with a weakened response system—and whether the US government can still deliver when catastrophe strikes. thenation.com/article/enviro…

"Even if I didn’t fully understand the meaning of these protests, I remember feeling struck by the students milling around the campus that year: how adult they seemed, how undaunted. I could see that for them, learning was not just about the rote accumulation of facts—one had to question those facts, too, and consider the forces that had brought them into existence. I had taken for granted that life in Irvine would always be stable, that education would always be accorded the highest value, and that the university was righteous and beneficent. I had no vocabulary for the mechanisms of power and profit whirring away beneath this tidy, tranquil world, but now I was dimly aware of them. And I had questions of my own: Would my friends’ parents get their jobs back? Would my father’s students be able to continue their studies? And what would happen to other, more precarious people around us—like the Hispanic men who trimmed our bushes every day?" For our Weekend Read series, Sara Krolewski wrote about her sunny California childhood in the shadow of the University of California, Irvine, and what happens when public institutions built to serve the public and advance social mobility for all become dependent on private money and market incentives. Read the full essay here: thenation.com/article/societ…

Over 100 New Yorkers were arrested this week protesting Benjamin Netanyahu's pro-genocide speech at the United Nations. This is how their defiant action went down: thenation.com/article/activi…

Despite being embroiled in a corruption scandal, Susan Collins might still win her election. thenation.com/article/politi…

Grace Byron talked to the political prisoner about the politics of love, her case, surviving as a trans woman in a men’s prison, and how she makes it through the day. thenation.com/article/activi…

ICYMI: @ellafanger reports from Thursday's protest of Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly, where about 100 New Yorkers gave the genocidaire a not-so-warm welcome. thenation.com/article/activi…

At the UN this week, as part of the annual gathering of world leaders at the general assembly, Trump railed against supranational organizations such as the International Criminal Court; threatened to “annihilate” and cast into an unrelenting hell the Iranian state and the tens of millions of people who live there; boasted about seizing Venezuelan oil fields; peremptorily embraced the might-is-right notion that “to the victor belong the spoils”; intimated that he would extend his tender mercies to Cuba next; and pledged, despite growing public unease, to turbocharge the AI revolution so as to lock US dominance in place from here to kingdom come. thenation.com/article/politi…

I grew up in a neighborhood manufactured by the University of California, Irvine. It felt like a utopia for academics—until the university forsook its mission of serving the public. thenation.com/article/societ…

Disillusioned with the nuclear family and the modern dating landscape, some young people are seeking a different way to start their own families. thenation.com/article/societ…

The trouble at Irvine began three years after UCI welcomed its first class of students, in 1967. A middling Hollywood export named Ronald Reagan had just been elected governor… thenation.com/article/societ…

Nuclear weapons were the most important technology of the 20th century. The Freeze campaign proved that a simple, bilateral demand—backed by enough people—can bend even the most powerful nations on earth. thenation.com/article/societ…

Despite a massive corruption scandal, Susan Collins, benefiting from Democrats in disarray, may still win. thenation.com/article/politi…