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A Desperate Trump Is Stirring Up Race Hatred A barrage of bad economic news has spurred Trump to unleash his hate-infested id on any nonwhite target that flits through his overtaxed brainpan.

Trump's race-baiting desperation: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

04.12.2025 14:20 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

Elon Musk predicts 12 years of Trump Vance Vance Musk was bullish on the GOP's presidential prospects at a DOGE reunion in Texas, where he appeared virtually, citing fears of assassination.

OK, now I'm starting to let my guard down and feel hopeful. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

02.12.2025 22:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The republic would be in far better shape if we devoted more attention to Sabrina Carpenter's views than we have to the exploits of Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza

02.12.2025 20:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The White House Press Tracker Is a Parody of Media Criticism With his approval number plummeting, Trump turns to a familiar strategy: launch a culture war against journalists.

The White House's media malice campaign: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

02.12.2025 13:58 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

You're too kind--Happy tgiving!

27.11.2025 17:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Nuzzi Seizure of Power The journalist’s rise and fall and rise again looks like a performance of tabloid drama. But really, it’s Beltway access reporting taken to its natural extreme.

The Nuzzi seizure of power: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

25.11.2025 18:41 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The 1935 Novel That Predicted Trump’s Second Term Sinclair Lewis imagined an American version of the rise of fascism in Europe. His predictions didn’t come true then, but seem eerily familiar now.

It happened here, and how: my latest Nation print column www.thenation.com/article/soci...

20.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Who’s Afraid of the Epstein Files? The release of Jeffrey Epstein’s documents is likely to implicate a whole network of members of the American ruling class.

Jeffrey Epstein and the predators' code: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

18.11.2025 16:34 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

This is where I issue the standard writers' disclaimer that we don't write the headlines

12.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Epstein Files Could Sink Finally Donald Trump New emails show Trump knew of Epstein’s trafficking. As sickening as it is, it should be no surprise.

Trump's Epstein-dammerung: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

12.11.2025 16:25 — 👍 34 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

The socialism of fools without the socialism

08.11.2025 23:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

DC’s Antifascist Hero—Sandwich Guy—Is Free A jury refuses to succumb to MAGA’s condiment conspiracy theory.

MAGA rendered powerless by hurled sandwich: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

07.11.2025 16:15 — 👍 53 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Turns out that ruling on the brutality of a sandwich assault is a lot like adjudicating a reception in the NFL

05.11.2025 21:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hah, I just missed the latest one, which is happening now. All those decisions are far above my pay grade. . . .

05.11.2025 19:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

I think he's better off keeping to the "I haven't heard anything about this" line

05.11.2025 16:14 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Trump’s Approval Ratings Have Hit a New Low And Democrats need to seize the moment—for once.

Can the Dems capitalize on Trump's plunging approval ratings? My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

05.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Just thinking back to 2020, when savvy Resistance Democrats were lobbying to replace Joe Biden at the top of the presidential ticket with Andrew Cuomo.

04.11.2025 22:23 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

The great @attackerman.bsky.social weighs in on the gruesome Cheney legacy at @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

04.11.2025 17:59 — 👍 49 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1

Cheney Undisclosed: Flattering Biography Never Lifts the Veil CHENEY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA’S MOST POWERFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL VICE PRESIDENTBy Stephen F. HayesHarperCollins, 578 pages, $27.95“Untold story” is right. Weekly Standard senior writer Stephen…

Dick Cheney, we knew you all too fucking well. observer.com/2007/07/chen...

04.11.2025 13:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mike Johnson’s House Is Fox News With a Gavel The House speaker admits that his legislative chamber no longer matters. That’s the outcome of a series of deliberate leadership decisions to ensure its powerlessness.

Mike Johnson's hollowed-out House: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

30.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

American Gothics | Chris Lehmann Literary elites have greeted the great crisis of the present age with little more than a collective puzzled shrug.

My old masthead home at @thebaffler.com graciously let me hold forth on the not-so-great American Trump novel: thebaffler.com/salvos/ameri...

29.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The White House Is Being Destroyed Because Corruption Doesn't Matter Anymore The demolition of the East Wing is a symbol of a system that long ago stopped caring about the kind of blatant graft that Trump loves.

Corruption and the MAGA wrecking crew: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

23.10.2025 15:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Welcome to the Age of the Robertsmander The chief justice has let partisan gerrymanders flourish, and created the conditions for near-permanent minority rule.

Stop blaming poor Elbridge Gerry. He didn't do this.
John Roberts did. We should name it after him.

It's Robertsmandering now.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

17.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 153 🔁 57 💬 6 📌 0