Is This the Decade of the Youth Vote? Is This the Decade of the Youth Vote?
Young voters showed up for Zohran Mamdani. They could reshape American politics elsewhere, too.
Aug 11, 2025 / Tisya Mavuram
Barack Obama Is the Last American Transcendentalist Barack Obama Is the Last American Transcendentalist
The former president’s preternatural optimism is still powerful—and contagious. But is it justified?
Aug 21, 2024 / D.D. Guttenplan
Joe the Plumber and His Afterlives Joe the Plumber and His Afterlives
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who died on Sunday, seemed like a footnote to the 2008 presidential campaign. But he was an augur of things to come.
Aug 29, 2023 / Chris Lehmann
Larry Summers and the Crisis of Economic Orthodoxy Larry Summers and the Crisis of Economic Orthodoxy
The establishment’s repeated failures are creating room for heterodox ideas.
Jun 16, 2023 / Jeet Heer
The Convenient Myth of “Humane” Wars The Convenient Myth of “Humane” Wars
How America hides the human toll of its military machine.
Jun 5, 2023 / Norman Solomon
Barack Obama’s Politics 101: Ridiculing Republicans Works Barack Obama’s Politics 101: Ridiculing Republicans Works
The former president is still the ablest campaigner the Democrats have, as his takedown of Herschel Walker’s vampire-vs.-werewolf rumination proved.
Dec 6, 2022 / John Nichols
Barack Obama Is Wrong to Oppose Expanding the Supreme Court Barack Obama Is Wrong to Oppose Expanding the Supreme Court
There is too much at stake—and too little time left—to give in to the former president’s caution on this issue.
Oct 21, 2022 / Mondaire Jones
Off the Record: Barack Obama on Donald Trump Off the Record: Barack Obama on Donald Trump
A newly declassified press conference shows the former president’s prescience—and his blind spots.
Oct 3, 2022 / Jeet Heer
When Critical Race Theory Met the CFPB… at a Toyota Dealer When Critical Race Theory Met the CFPB… at a Toyota Dealer
Like CRT, disparate impact theory is a right-wing target—and a powerful tool for fighting racism in lending.
Nov 1, 2021 / Tom Gogola
Bernie Sanders Backs Canada’s Left Rival to Justin Trudeau Bernie Sanders Backs Canada’s Left Rival to Justin Trudeau
The New Democratic Party and its dynamic young leader, Jagmeet Singh, score a cross-border endorsement.
Sep 20, 2021 / Column / John Nichols