Jon Wiener

Contributing Editor

@JonWiener1

Jon 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.

Trump Putin Vietnam

The Facts of Russiagate Have Been Obvious for a Long Time The Facts of Russiagate Have Been Obvious for a Long Time

David Klion on Putin and Trump, Amy Wilentz on Trump’s mental status, and Bill McKibben on climate change.

Dec 27, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sunrise Movement

2018: The Year of the Progressive 2018: The Year of the Progressive

John Nichols on politics, Erwin Chemerinsky on Obamacare, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on left internationalism.

Dec 20, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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William Barr: Worse Than Jeff Sessions? William Barr: Worse Than Jeff Sessions?

David Cole on Trump’s nominee for attorney general.

Dec 13, 2018 / Jon Wiener

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Is Trump’s New Attorney General Nominee Just Another Jeff Sessions? Is Trump’s New Attorney General Nominee Just Another Jeff Sessions?

David Cole on William Barr, Dave Lindorff on Pentagon accounting fraud, and Marc Cooper on the revolution in Armenia.

Dec 13, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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Letters From the December 31, 2018, Issue Letters From the December 31, 2018, Issue

The perils of make-work… Government workers, unite!… The edible is political (web-only)…

Dec 6, 2018 / Our Readers and Jon Wiener

George H.W. Bush Gave Us Today’s Republican Party

George H.W. Bush Gave Us Today’s Republican Party George H.W. Bush Gave Us Today’s Republican Party

Harold Meyerson on Bush 41, Katha Pollitt on white women and Trump, and Eric Foner on Frederick Douglass.

Dec 6, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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How George H.W. Bush Paved the Way for Trump Pardons How George H.W. Bush Paved the Way for Trump Pardons

Harold Meyerson on the dark side of Reagan’s successor.

Dec 5, 2018 / Jon Wiener

Michelle Obama Manchester

Michelle Obama’s Carefully Scrubbed Memoir Michelle Obama’s Carefully Scrubbed Memoir

Amy Wilentz on the missing politics in Becoming.

Nov 30, 2018 / Jon Wiener

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Where Are the Politics in Michelle Obama’s New Memoir? Where Are the Politics in Michelle Obama’s New Memoir?

Amy Wilentz on Becoming, Kai Wright on midterm victories, and Tom Athanasiou on climate change.

Nov 29, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

How Democrats Won in the White-Hot Heart of the Republican Right

How Democrats Won in the White-Hot Heart of the Republican Right How Democrats Won in the White-Hot Heart of the Republican Right

Gustavo Arellano on Orange County, L.A. Kauffman on protest, and Andrew Delbanco on the history of fugitive slaves.

Nov 21, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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