Activism / November 25, 2025 “Operation Charlotte’s Web” may mobilize North Carolina’s working-class Latino members and allies to shift the political balance of power at the local, state and national level. Ad Policy A person is detained by US Border Patrol agents on November 19, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The man sustained injuries to […]
Politics / November 24, 2025 The incoming mayor has improbably charmed Donald Trump and given himself some political breathing room. But nobody should get too comfortable. Ad Policy President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Friday, November 21, 2025. […]
Ad Policy Larry Summers, president emeritus and professor at Harvard University, during an interview in New York on September 17, 2025. (Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg via Getty Images) The famed economist Larry Summers, not for the first time, finds himself at the center of a scandal. He’s had to take a leave from Harvard, […]
The immigration officer held out his hand for my passport. He was large and red-faced, with graying hair and not much neck. Behind him lay a crumpled Dunkin’ Donuts bag. He emitted a suburban sort of provincialism, and yet he sat magisterially in his high chair, wielding his stamp like a scepter. At that moment, […]
Politics / November 21, 2025 Trump’s defeat over the Epstein files was a rare instance of Congress defying his authoritarianism. But the resistance is still feeble. Ad Policy President Donald Trump speaks during an official dinner with Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman in the East Room […]
Environment / November 20, 2025 A fact all but ignored at COP30. Ad Policy A nun poses for a picture with a banner of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Para State, Brazil, on November 19, 2025. (Pablo Porciuncula / Getty Images) The COP30 summit continues on, shy one president. World leaders and […]
Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show: The Americans who fought in World War II have been called “the greatest generation,” but historian David Nasaw argues that it’s more appropriate to regard them as “the wounded generation.” He’ll explain, later in the show. But […]
Politics / November 18, 2025 The release of Jeffrey Epstein’s documents is likely to implicate a whole network of members of the American ruling class. Ad Policy A projection onto a building near the White House demands Donald Trump release the Epstein files in July 2025. (Allison Bailey / NurPhoto via AP) Over the weekend, […]
Since late January, leaders at liberal foundations and donor networks have been preparing for a legal assault by federal agencies. That moment finally arrived in September, when, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed federal prosecutors to investigate the Open Society Foundations on a range of possible criminal charges, […]
Ad Policy A bronze-painted statue titled “Best Friends Forever”, depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands on October 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) The scandal around Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked and abused children and died in a prison cell in 2019, has never gone away. It continues to explode […]
