Politics / January 9, 2026 In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent makes the case to get rid of ICE, explores George Conway’s congressional campaign—and shares his New Year’s resolution. Ad Policy Demonstrators in Minneapolis protest the murder of Renée Good. (Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg via Getty Images) This […]
Politics / January 7, 2026 Can Trump and Kristi Noem maintain their blatant lies in the face of multiple videos that show the victim was trying to drive away when she was shot three times by an ICE agent? Ad Policy Law enforcement and a protester on the scene after an ICE agent shot and […]
Politics / January 7, 2026 The pundits straining to seek coherence in the new interventionist “Donroe doctrine” would do well to look back to Trump’s roots in New York real estate Ad Policy Donald Trump surveys the Manhattan skyline in 1987. (Joe McNally / Getty Images) In 2018, an unnamed staffer in the first Trump […]
Politics / January 6, 2026 Donald Trump staged an illegal coup. Chuck Schumer’s response? Empty words and meaningless parliamentary maneuvers. Ad Policy (MS Now) In a colossal show of both imperial hubris and reality-TV-grade carelessness, America’s ruling regime has kidnapped a world leader and his wife and ordered them to go to trial on overblown […]
Politics / January 5, 2026 The Venezuelan coup opens the gates to a new era of imperial plunder. Ad Policy Protesters participate in a rally near the US embassy to denounce the US attack on Venezuela on January 5, 2026, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images) Donald Trump started 2026 with a […]
Politics / January 3, 2026 Senators and House members accuse Trump and his aides of disregarding the Constitution and lying to Congress. Ad Policy President Donald Trump, alongside deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]
Politics / January 2, 2026 Mayor Zohran Mamdani defies the cold and the calls to move to the center with the promise of a New York that belongs to the people who live in it. Ad Policy Mayor Zohran Mamdani stands alongside his wife, Rama Duwaji, after concluding his address to the crowd at the […]
Politics / Authoritarian Watch / January 2, 2026 Looking at how the Trump administration fits into a pattern of authoritarian governance can empower people to think about how to best resist the country’s slide to autocracy. Ad Policy Demonstrators rally against President Donald Trump during a protest, dubbed “Resist the Dictator,” to mark President’s Day […]
There are many ways a progressive politician can fail. They can fail to be elected. They can fail to deliver on their platform once in office. And they can also fail to build up the left’s power in a way that outlasts their administration. This third possibility has often been overlooked by commentary around Zohran […]
Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. This is our year-in-review show: later in the hour, the year in court: David Cole, who stepped down this year as National Legal Director of the ACLU, will comment on the 150 rulings against Trump in federal courts this past year, […]
