Trump Gets Some ‘Good Press’ While the Downsizing and Offshoring Continues Trump Gets Some ‘Good Press’ While the Downsizing and Offshoring Continues
A factory is set to close, jobs are being lost, yet the president-elect is taking a “victory lap.”
Dec 2, 2016 / John Nichols
The Second Coming of MTV News The Second Coming of MTV News
Its rebirth gives insights into twin trends across the media landscape: prestige and diversity.
Dec 2, 2016 / Wei Tchou
Margaret Sullivan on How Trump Trounced the Media Margaret Sullivan on How Trump Trounced the Media
An interview.
Dec 2, 2016 / John Nichols
2016 in Sports: Joy and Resistance While the World Burned 2016 in Sports: Joy and Resistance While the World Burned
The sports world was an oasis during an otherwise terrible year.
Dec 1, 2016 / Dave Zirin
We Need to Kill the Electoral College We Need to Kill the Electoral College
It’s a foul remnant of 18th-century oligarchs and slaveholders, designed to thwart the will of the people.
Dec 1, 2016 / John Nichols
Trump Thinks the Law Is for Wusses Trump Thinks the Law Is for Wusses
But guess who’s really getting conned.
Dec 1, 2016 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Letters From the December 19-26, 2016, Issue Letters From the December 19-26, 2016, Issue
Return of the repressed… Book therapy… Happily enough ever after… Dylan revisited… Bentham’s revenge…
Dec 1, 2016 / Our Readers and Samuel Moyn
Lessons for the Trump Era From the Days Following 9/11 Lessons for the Trump Era From the Days Following 9/11
We’ve been here before, so let’s take stock of what we did right—and what we got wrong.
Dec 1, 2016 / Sayu Bhojwani
Here’s How States and Cities Can Fight Climate Change and Inequality in the Trump Era Here’s How States and Cities Can Fight Climate Change and Inequality in the Trump Era
Let’s make polluters pay for carbon reduction and invest the revenue in disadvantaged communities.
Dec 1, 2016 / Heather McGhee and Robert B. Reich
Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment
“We are rapidly becoming prototypes of a people that totalitarian monsters could only drool about in their dreams,” a Nation writer said in 1992.
Nov 30, 2016 / Richard Kreitner