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Mourn. Resist. Organize. These Are Our Tasks Now.

Katrina vanden Heuvel on Trump’s win, John Nichols on the Democrats, and Laila Lalami on vulnerable Muslims.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

November 10, 2016

Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Clive, Iowa, on September 13, 2016.(AP Photo / Evan Vucci)

Katrina vanden Heuvel says there’s no denying the magnitude of our defeats, and we need to mourn our losses—but then we have to resist and organize.

Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

John Nichols analyzes the changes we need in the Democratic Party.

And Laila Lalami talks about the most vulnerable group in the Trump era: Muslims in America.

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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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