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September 30, 2022
Putin’s Support Among the Far Right Is Splintering
The new Italian leader is still pro-NATO, but the broader right is divided.
Jeet Heer
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September 29, 2022
Can Democrats Hold the Senate? Plus: Ken Burns’s “The U.S. and the Holocaust”
On this week’s episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, John Nichols comments on the future of the Senate, and David Nasaw reviews a new documentary.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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September 28, 2022
We Like the Idea of Asylum Seekers, but Not the Real Thing
The 12-foot-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee has been welcomed in New York and around the world. Real refugees? Not so much.
Helen Benedict
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September 23, 2022
David Leonhardt’s Centrist Nostalgia Won’t Save Democracy
Jim Crow wasn’t an exception—but a model for the future.
Jeet Heer
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September 23, 2022
Cori Bush on Her Green New Deals for Cities
The Missouri congresswoman talks to The Nation about her climate bill and why St. Louis is overdue for investment.
Devin Thomas O’Shea
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September 22, 2022
Fascists, Neofascists, and Postfascists: Italy’s Unreal Election Debate
With most Italians exhausted by the status quo, the far right is likely to be the biggest winner in Sunday’s elections.
David Broder
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September 20, 2022
It Isn’t Populist to Defund Rural Schools
The Republican Party has won rural America by fanning the flames of the culture war. But by taking a match to public schools, it may have finally gone too far.
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider
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September 20, 2022
Letters From the October 3/10, 2022, Issue
One-state reality… Documenting January 6… Leaving water for migrants…
Our Readers
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September 16, 2022
Republicans May Not Run on Abortion, but They Can’t Hide From the Debate
J.D. Vance’s contortions and Lindsey Graham’s blundering press conference show that the abortion issue has become a quagmire for the right.
Jeet Heer
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September 16, 2022
New Hampshire’s GOP Senate Nominee Wants to Take Away the Right to Elect Senators
The next frontier in the Republican assault on democracy involves a scheme to repeal the 17th Amendment and let Republican-controlled legislatures name senators.
John Nichols