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.

Savor This Victory: Doug Jones Is Taking Jeff Sessions’s Old Seat

Savor This Victory: Doug Jones Is Taking Jeff Sessions’s Old Seat Savor This Victory: Doug Jones Is Taking Jeff Sessions’s Old Seat

Howell Raines on Alabama, Joan Walsh on #MeToo after Al Franken, and John Nichols on Net Neutrality.

Dec 14, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Roy Moore

On Tuesday, Alabama Decides Between an Accused Child Molester and a Democrat On Tuesday, Alabama Decides Between an Accused Child Molester and a Democrat

Which one has a better chance of making it to the Senate?

Dec 11, 2017 / Jon Wiener

Roy Moore

How the Democrats Can Defeat Roy Moore in Alabama How the Democrats Can Defeat Roy Moore in Alabama

Howell Raines on Doug Jones, Bob Dreyfuss on Russiagate, and Gary Younge on American Nazis.

Dec 7, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Jeff Flake

Rick Perlstein: The Trouble With Anti-Trump Republicans Rick Perlstein: The Trouble With Anti-Trump Republicans

Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, and John McCain still vote with Trump 90 percent of the time.

Dec 1, 2017 / Jon Wiener

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What Will It Take for the GOP to Pass Its Terrible Tax Bill? What Will It Take for the GOP to Pass Its Terrible Tax Bill?

George Zornick on Senate politics, Joan Walsh on sexual harassment in Washington, and Rick Perlstein on Republicans against Trump.

Nov 30, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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The Resistance to Trump: Year 1 The Resistance to Trump: Year 1

David Cole on stopping Trump, Lawrence O’Donnell on 1968, and Steven Hahn on Hillbilly Elegy.

Nov 22, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Roy Moore

Yes, Some Alabama Republicans Will Still Vote for Roy Moore Yes, Some Alabama Republicans Will Still Vote for Roy Moore

An interview with Howell Raines on what he calls “Alabama Embarrassment Syndrome.”

Nov 17, 2017 / Jon Wiener

Roy Moore

Can the Democrats Actually Beat Roy Moore in Alabama? Can the Democrats Actually Beat Roy Moore in Alabama?

Howell Raines on Moore, Adam Shatz on Trump and the bomb, and Corey Robin on Trump and The Reactionary Mind.

Nov 16, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Russia, Trump, and the Democrats Katrina vanden Heuvel: Russia, Trump, and the Democrats

Plus George Zornick on the tax bill and Danny Meyer on the trouble with tipping.

Nov 9, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump in Alabama

Trump’s Ghostwriter Says the President Is Now In Survival Mode Trump’s Ghostwriter Says the President Is Now In Survival Mode

Tony Schwartz, the author behind The Art of the Deal, says Trump is moving to “a darker place”

Nov 3, 2017 / Jon Wiener

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