Politics / December 22, 2025 Plutocrats, pundits, and government officials joined together in a racist smear campaign against a queer Palestinian student at Brown University. Ad Policy Candles are lit by framed photos of mass shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Amurzokov and Ella Cook at a makeshift memorial near Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on […]
Politics / December 23, 2025 Under the Trump administration’s anti-DEI directives, colleges would be forced to abandon gender balancing, disadvantaging men. Ad Policy President Donald Trump in the White House in January 2025. (Hu Yousong / Xinhua via Getty Images) One of the best-kept secrets about DEI is that it helps men—that includes white men—get […]
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 […]
Activism / December 26, 2025 Why we need a freedom agenda. Ad Policy TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA NORTE – Catelina Cespedes, Carlos Alcaide and Teodolo Torres greet Florita Galvez, who is on the other side. The family came from Santa Monica Cohetzala in Puebla to meet at the wall. Meetings like this takes place every Sunday […]
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 […]
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 […]
