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The District 12 Candidate Nobody Is Talking About

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By Katha Pollitt 
| The Nation
June 5, 2026 The District 12 Candidate Nobody Is Talking About “Our democracy is in deep trouble,” says Nina Schwalbe, “from vaccines to abortion to science, to SNAP, to rule of law.” Ad Policy Congressional District 12 candidate Nina Schwalbe participates with fellow Democrats Jack Schlossberg, Micah Lasher, and George Conway in a public forum moderated by Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City on May 6. 2026. (AP images) I wasn’t going to write about Nina Schwalbe.
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AI Is Incapable of Poetry

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By Katha Pollitt 
| The Nation
AI Is Incapable of Poetry It’s incapable of producing anything creative that isn’t dreck. Ad Policy (Shutterstock) This article appears in the June 2026 issue, with the headline “The Poet in the Machine.” If Anthropic had offered me $15,000 to use five pieces of my published work to train its large language models, I would have said no way. Why should I help Dario Amodei, the company’s CEO, to debase language, imagination, individuality, art? Aren’t people stupid enough already?
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Gisèle Pelicot Shows Us Why “Shame Must Change Sides”

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By Katha Pollitt 
| The Nation
Society / March 18, 2026 Gisèle Pelicot Shows Us Why “Shame Must Change Sides” Fifty-one ordinary men raped an unconscious woman. Her case reveals the limits of anti-carceral feminism. Ad Policy Gisele Pelicot has published the book A Hymn to Life in which she recounts her memories of discovering one morning in November 2020 that her husband had been secretly drugging her and inviting strangers to her home to rape her.
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