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Our June issue is here, featuring @joanwalsh on Peggy Flanagan, @brycecovert on pregnant workers at Amazon, @DavidFutrelle on the prediction marketfication of everything, Corey Robin on capitalism's long revolution, and more!

Trump's arch is a case study in how ideologically invested architectural movements can secure power for themselves. bit.ly/4uqDiTA

Alvaro Enrigue's new novel serves a refutation of both the Hollywood western and the Western nation-state. Nicolás Medina Mora in @booksandthearts. bit.ly/4uDuycv

The secretary of war’s plea for discipline collapses into its opposite—a demand for wanton violence and mayhem. By marine veteran Lyle Jeremy Rubin: bit.ly/4fIa6mu

"Over the last four years, as I’ve embarked on writing a book about military masculinity," writes @Jasper_Craven, "I’ve met lots of...men, mostly, whose natural identities were warped or stunted by heavy doses of military training." bit.ly/4wuNn3j

"Everything I learned about my body annihilated my desire to live in it. I never understood my body to be inherently desirable regardless of what it looked like because I was only ever taught that it wasn’t." bit.ly/4a2e0TD

Referring to the White House as “real estate” is a bit of parapraxis, letting slip that the executive branch, in more ways than one, is indeed for sale. bit.ly/4uqDiTA

"In January of 2025, I started using an off-brand compound of semaglutide, a GLP-1—cheap Ozempic. At the time, I was 24, single, the most depressed I had ever been, unemployed, spending my days watching Vanderpump Rules." bit.ly/4dq4zQ8

.@alexshams_ shares an essential, extended report on how diaspora forces in the US—led by Reza Pahlavi—helped sell Iranians on the fantasy of quick and easy regime change at home. bit.ly/4upyhLd

The battle over BDS at the Park Slope Food Coop has become a symbol of a broader struggle to hold Israel accountable. bit.ly/4dWXff4

Crypto billionaires and AI executives are pouring hundreds of millions into super PACs to shape the future of regulation. bit.ly/4f0TCG4

The Nation spoke with Karen Tei Yamashita about her new book’s regretful relevance amidst escalatingly violent ICE detainments. bit.ly/4nzMylZ

Ultimately, an antitrust program shuffles market share but not market logic. It leaves the forces of capital intact, the structures of ownership unchanged, the imperatives of accumulation untouched. bit.ly/4fjU7LB

Some of the attacks could well have been categorized as crimes of war. Others are certainly extrajudicial killings—or, simply put, outright murders. bit.ly/43o4yX0

"Everything I learned about my body annihilated my desire to live in it. I never understood my body to be inherently desirable regardless of what it looked like because I was only ever taught that it wasn’t." bit.ly/4a2e0TD

"In January of 2025, I started using an off-brand compound of semaglutide, a GLP-1—cheap Ozempic. At the time, I was 24, single, the most depressed I had ever been, unemployed, spending my days watching Vanderpump Rules." bit.ly/4dq4zQ8

.@alexshams_ shares an essential, extended report on how diaspora forces in the US—led by Reza Pahlavi—helped sell Iranians on the fantasy of quick and easy regime change at home. bit.ly/4upyhLd

“Why did so many people think this war was a good idea?” This question lies at the heart of @alexshams_ deep dive into how Iranians were sold a regime-change fantasy by Iranian diaspora actors working with the US & Israel—and the bloody consequences. bit.ly/4upyhLd

"Per his own harsh admission, Jesse was born a coward. 'Apparently, as a baby, you couldn’t put me down without me crying,' he said, somewhat ashamed." bit.ly/4wuNn3j

The practice of contemporary Christianity for Gen Z is as tied to performance and personality as it is to doctrine, meaning, and institutions. Christian influencers are a convincing presence in the lives of millions of young people, many of whom are desperately seeking meaning

Jay McInerney’s Yuppie New York 'The novelist has spent a career mocking and romanticizing the lifestyle of New York’s bourgeoisie. Now, in his latest, he examines them as they come to the end of their lives.' thenation.com/article/cultur… | @thenation