nation-state

They’re meant not just to discredit Palestinian suffering but to preserve the psychological comfort of those invested in the status quo: “When your identity is formed around a nation-state, it requires so many acrobatic maneuvers to maintain it.”

Conveniently, though, large tech-focused multinational corporations would no doubt take on an even greater prominence—perhaps somewhat akin to the nation-state—if the techno-libertarian dream were ever to be realized.

The day the United States loses the ability to deport noncitizens who espouse such toxic beliefs is the day the United States ceases to be a sovereign nation-state.

The Trump administration has repeatedly insisted that giving Ukraine too much support would hamper a potential deal with Russia, while Zelenskyy and some of Ukraine's European allies have argued that Ukraine's survival as a coherent nation-state cannot be subject to bargaining.

John Skrentny, a sociology professor at the University of California, San Diego, believes that, though birthright citizenship or jus soli is common throughout the Americas, "each nation-state had its own unique road to it".