Trump Didn’t Bring Down Liz Cheney—Her Conservative White Base Did
Cheney, like her father, spent a lifetime feeding the rage of right-wing Republicans. Now they’ve turned on her.
Elie MystalBooks and Ideas
Salman Rushdie Joins Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence
Shortly before he was attacked, Rushdie joined with dozens of Indian literary artists to lament the rise of Hindu nationalism and the fragile state of the country's democracy.
Pranay SomayajulaHealth and Disease
Stop Telling Americans That They’re “Tired of Covid”
Shifting responsibility for the pandemic onto individuals is bad policy—and risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom.
Martha LincolnWorld Leaders
Why Walden Bello’s Arrest and Detention for Cyberlibel Demands Attention
The charge is a brazen case of weaponing the law against critics.
Walden BelloCulture
How Eco-Fiction Became Realer Than Realism
Encompassing everything from the ecosystems novel to sci-fi, a growing body of literature is imagining and interrogating the past, present, and future of the planet's climate.
Lynne Feeley
The Broken College Ranking System
A fairer rankings system would highlight universities like Georgia State and CUNY, whose mission is to help students from poor families enter the middle class, rather than fixating on institutions like Yale and Princeton, which burnish the prone-to-success credentials of their students.
David Kirp
The Building Blocks of History
A conversation with Richard Cohen about Making History, his lively defense of narrative history, and the lived experience that informs historical writing.
Walker Mimms
Politics
Stop Telling Americans That They’re “Tired of Covid”
Shifting responsibility for the pandemic onto individuals is bad policy—and risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom.
Martha Lincoln
Trump Didn’t Bring Down Liz Cheney—Her Conservative White Base Did
Cheney, like her father, spent a lifetime feeding the rage of right-wing Republicans. Now they’ve turned on her.
Elie Mystal
The Left Has a Responsibility to Side With Salman Rushdie
Religious extremism is always dangerous, no matter the source.
Katha PollittWorld
The Kenyan Kakistocracy
What are we supposed to do when the electoral system consistently yields terrible candidates?
Nanjala Nyabola
The OAS Admits Culpability in the Destruction of Haiti
The tragedy is that given the condition in which international rule has left the country, Haiti simply cannot solve its problems alone.
Amy Wilentz
The Bloody Money Trail From the Qatar World Cup to the LA Olympics
Qatar is a human rights nightmare, but LA power brokers preparing for the 2028 Olympics don’t seem to care.
Dave Zirin and Jules BoykoffNation Voices
Watch and Listen
Listen: Pramila Jayapal on Going From Banker to Organizer, and Eric Foner on the Right to Vote
On this week’s episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, the representative and the historian join us to discuss politics and history.
August 4, 2022
Listen: Liz Cheney in the Wyoming Primaries and White Supremacy in Southern California
On this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, writers John Nichols and Gustavo Arellano join to discuss the upcoming election in Wyoming and a history of the right wing in Orange County.
August 11, 2022
Watch: No Safe Place to Hide
A video response to NYC’s nuclear PSA. Have we forgotten?
August 3, 2022
From the Magazine
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August 22/29, 2022, Issue
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Editorial
Steve Bannon’s Endgame By John Nichols
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Letters
Letters From the August 22/29, 2022, Issue By Our Readers
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Books & the Arts
Steven Thrasher on "The Viral Underclass" By Charlotte Rosen
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