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Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed that independent journalism has the capacity to bring about a ...

Trump has put the nation’s capital under federal occupation. Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed ...

These rollbacks are part of the debilitating horror that right-wing dogmatists experience before the workings of secular and skeptical inquiry—the prospect that the ownership of their children (and ...

Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed that independent journalism has the capacity to bring about a ...

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