Donald Trump Cannot Manage a Phone Call With a Longstanding Global Ally Donald Trump Cannot Manage a Phone Call With a Longstanding Global Ally

This should scare the wits out of Americans of every partisanship and ideology.

Feb 2, 2017 / John Nichols

Trump’s Military Ambitions Could Be Bad News for the Infrastructure He Promised to Improve Trump’s Military Ambitions Could Be Bad News for the Infrastructure He Promised to Improve

Feb 2, 2017 / William D. Hartung

To Avert Disaster, the Senate Must Reject Neil Gorsuch To Avert Disaster, the Senate Must Reject Neil Gorsuch

President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court is a radical choice at a pivotal moment.

Feb 2, 2017 / Nan Aron

How Far Outside the Legal Mainstream Is Neil Gorsuch? How Far Outside the Legal Mainstream Is Neil Gorsuch?

David Cole on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Zoë Carpenter on Trump’s actions, and John Nichols on a victory against gerrymandering.

Feb 2, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Kellyanne Conway’s Milestone Kellyanne Conway’s Milestone

Ms. Conway already has nailed down a place In history. She can relax. She’ll long be remembered when people call lies Not lies, just “alternative facts.”…

Feb 2, 2017 / Column / Calvin Trillin

An Actual American War Criminal May Become Our Second-Ranking Diplomat An Actual American War Criminal May Become Our Second-Ranking Diplomat

Elliott Abrams spent the Reagan years abetting genocide—now, he has been floated as Trump’s deputy secretary of state.

Feb 2, 2017 / Column / Eric Alterman

That It Might Save, or Drown Them That It Might Save, or Drown Them

I have seen how the earth erodes differently from the way that trust does. Likewise, I know what it means, to come to love all over again the very mistakes I also know, looking bac…

Feb 2, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips

This Is Not a Comic This Is Not a Comic

Who are you going to believe?

Feb 2, 2017 / Peter Kuper

Blue Wash on Linen Canvas, Believed Unfinished Blue Wash on Linen Canvas, Believed Unfinished

And he woke again like a thief undetected, invisible therefore, and therefore free. The bronze horse’s hoof stood raised for apparently ever about to trample beneath it the cross o…

Feb 2, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips

Letters From the February 20, 2017, Issue Letters From the February 20, 2017, Issue

Cold war, hot takes… Peace as realpolitik… High note
… The gratitude cure…

Feb 2, 2017 / Our Readers