In this time of unrelenting, often unprecedented cruelty and lawlessness, I’m grateful for Nation readers like you. So many of you have taken to the streets, organized in your neighborhood and with your union, and showed up at the ballot box to vote for progressive candidates. You’re proving that it is possible—to paraphrase the legendary […]
Jon Wiener: From The Nation Magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show, we feature some special songs for the season: Bob Dylan’s Christmas album. “Bells are ringin’, children singin’, all is merry and bright” — later in the show. But first: Los Angeles versus Donald Trump: Bill Gallegos has […]
Culture / December 23, 2025 Ad Policy People stand outside the Met amidst thunder storms on Tuesday, July 4, in Manhattan, New York.(Barry Williams / Getty Images) Why did the Metropolitan Museum remove the John Wilson banner that last autumn had been gracing its façade? That arresting image was made from a tiny portrait of […]
Politics / December 22, 2025 The new editor in chief at CBS News has shown she’s not merely stupendously unqualified—she’s ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism. Ad Policy CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss hosts a town hall with Erika Kirk on December 10. (Michele Crowe / CBS News via Getty Images) […]
Politics / December 19, 2025 Weiss’s ascent reveals the extent to which Hollywood, once a Democratic stronghold, has defected for a politics that puts the concerns and egos of wealthy people first. Ad Policy Rob Reiner in 2018 in Studio City, California. (Rich Polk / Getty Images for IMDb) It felt wonderful back when it […]
Politics / December 19, 2025 This week’s “Elie v. US” explores the authoritarian threat beneath Trump’s bonuses for military families. Plus, a case for getting rid of the Second Amendment. Ad Policy Donald Trump addresses the nation on December 17, 2025. (Doug MILLS / POOL / AFP via Getty Images) This is a preview of Nation Justice […]
Politics / December 19, 2025 The initial chaos of layoffs has been followed by a concerted effort by the Trump administration to halt the enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Ad Policy The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters in Washington, DC. (Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Kenneth Hansbrough’s problems began […]
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 […]
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 […]
