Over the past year you’ve read Nation writers like Elie Mystal, Kaveh Akbar, John Nichols, Joan Walsh, Bryce Covert, Dave Zirin, Jeet Heer, Michael T. Klare, Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Gregg Gonsalves, and Sasha Abramsky take on the Trump family’s corruption, set the record straight about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s catastrophic Make America Healthy Again […]
Activism / December 16, 2025 It should guide the Democrats. Ad Policy The COL4 AI-ready data center, located on a seven-acre campus in Columbus, Ohio on July 24, 2025. (Eli Hiller / Getty Images) It was a warm, late summer night, September 11, and hundreds of residents had packed the spacious chambers of City Hall […]
Politics / December 12, 2025 In this week’s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent recaps a major death penalty case that came before the high court as well as the shenanigans of a man who’s angling to be the next SCOTUS justice. Plus: Michael Jordan for AG? Ad Policy Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, the […]
Over the past year you’ve read Nation writers like Elie Mystal, Kaveh Akbar, John Nichols, Joan Walsh, Bryce Covert, Dave Zirin, Jeet Heer, Michael T. Klare, Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Gregg Gonsalves, and Sasha Abramsky take on the Trump family’s corruption, set the record straight about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s catastrophic Make America Healthy Again […]
Over the past year you’ve read Nation writers like Elie Mystal, Kaveh Akbar, John Nichols, Joan Walsh, Bryce Covert, Dave Zirin, Jeet Heer, Michael T. Klare, Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Gregg Gonsalves, and Sasha Abramsky take on the Trump family’s corruption, set the record straight about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s catastrophic Make America Healthy Again […]
Politics / Hiding in Plain Sight / December 12, 2025 And yet, that’s what the Supreme Court appears prepared to do. Ad Policy Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem flank Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office, on August […]
Politics / December 11, 2025 Jasmine Crockett can win the Texas Senate race—if voters of color get to the polls. Ad Policy Jasmine Crockett at a hearing to examine the unlawful detention of US citizens and immigrants by federal immigration agents at the LA Metropolitan Water District. (David Crane / MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News […]
Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show:Bob Dylan’s earliest recordings have just been released; the first is from 1956 when he was 15 years old. It opens the 8-CD set ‘Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series volume 18” –which ends in 1963, with […]
December 9, 2025 But local MAHA laws may be an even bigger threat. Ad Policy US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, DC, on November 12, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski / Getty Images) Even within the freakshow that is Donald Trump’s […]
Politics / December 5, 2025 Speaker Mike Johnson’s sexism is fueling an unexpected uprising within the GOP caucus. Ad Policy Marjorie Taylor Greene at a Capitol Hill press conference on November 18, 2025. (Sarah L. Voisin / The Washington Post via Getty Images) House Speaker Mike Johnson has strong opinions on the differences between men […]
