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Who Knew the Adoption Industry Was This Bad?

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APRIL 24, 2026
Who Knew the Adoption Industry Was This Bad?
We Need to Tear Down the Adoption Industry →
This week, writer and academic M Ceniza tells the harrowing story of an Afghan “orphan” who was either saved or abducted, depending on who you talk to, in 2019, and the frightening scam that is the international adoption industry. “The ‘better life’ that is promised for so many adoptees fails to consider the trauma of severance and alienation inherent to adoption,” Ceniza writes, while “adoption in the West…is intended to serve the interests of adopters first, of relinquishing parents second, and of adoptees last.”

 

Meanwhile, socialists are everywhere. As StudentNation reporter Ilana Cohen writes, Lindsey Boylan, former deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser to the governor of New York, and the first woman to speak out against former Governor Andrew Cuomo over sexual harassment, announced that she was running for City Council. (She is backed by Zohran Mamdani.) The Nation also republished a viral piece from the The Maine Monitor, in which a former high school classmate of democratic socialist Senate hopeful Graham Platner tells all about the activist spirit Platner has had since he was in his teens. We’re not sure if either of these candidates will win, but it’s nice to have some good news for once.

 

-Alana Pockros

Associate Editor, The Nation
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