“Since Israel’s genocide began last year, more than 60 percent of Gaza’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged—leading to more than 42 million tons of rubble,” Abdullah Shihipar reminds us. For those in Gaza who remain alive, as with those who survived 9/11, their future will be forever colored by that rubble and their prolonged exposure to war-related chemicals—whose impact we know even less about.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has decided there are more important things to do than consider the detrimental effects of climate change, the destruction our country has created in the Middle East, or the livelihood of immigrants he has promised to deport at the start of his term.

Instead, Trump wants us to focus on seizing Greenland. “We are not for sale and will never be for sale,” says Múte Egede, the elected prime minister of the island. Nonetheless, as John Nichols explains it, such an assertion did not stop Donald Trump Jr. from visiting the country, opening the floodgates to what he calls “a new era of imperial tourism.”

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-Alana Pockros

Engagement Editor, The Nation

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