Joan Walsh

National Affairs Correspondent

@joanwalsh

Joan Walsh, a national affairs correspondent for The Nation, is a coproducer of The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show and the author of What’s the Matter With White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America. Her new book (with Nick Hanauer and Donald Cohen) is Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power and Wealth In America.

Hands hold up a poster with pictures of the six conservative Supreme Court justices with their eyes crossed out.

This Fascist Gang Can Shoot Straight After All This Fascist Gang Can Shoot Straight After All

Mitch McConnell teamed with Donald Trump to pack the Supreme Court and make sure gun owners’ rights are protected—and women’s are not.

Jun 24, 2022 / Joan Walsh

Photo of Jan 6 hearing.

The Fascist Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight The Fascist Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight

The latest January 6 hearing shows how close Trump and his toadies came to overturning democracy, despite their ridiculous incompetence.

Jun 24, 2022 / Joan Walsh

The 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C.

What the Hand-Wringing Over a “Backlash” to Feminism Gets Wrong What the Hand-Wringing Over a “Backlash” to Feminism Gets Wrong

Yes, we’re facing new opposition after a wave of progress. But we can’t afford—and don’t deserve—despair.

Jun 23, 2022 / Joan Walsh

January 6th committee hearing

To Avert January 6, We Needed Whistleblowers—and We Never Got Them To Avert January 6, We Needed Whistleblowers—and We Never Got Them

The Trump and Pence staffers testifying now batted down Trump’s election lies—but they never went public with the threat he posed.

Jun 17, 2022 / Joan Walsh for The Nation

January 6th committee hearing

The January 6 Committee Investigates the Origins of the “Big Lie” The January 6 Committee Investigates the Origins of the “Big Lie”

The committee broke down how Donald Trump ignored his own team and scammed his voters trying to grift his way into an illegitimate second term.

Jun 14, 2022 / Joan Walsh

The Backlash Against Sex Ed

The Backlash Against Sex Ed The Backlash Against Sex Ed

The right is inflaming another front in the culture war.

Jun 14, 2022 / Feature / Joan Walsh

Donald Trump Did It. Will He Be Punished?

Donald Trump Did It. Will He Be Punished? Donald Trump Did It. Will He Be Punished?

Last night’s hearing laid out all the details about how Donald Trump and his closest allies organized and ran the January 6 violent insurrection.

Jun 10, 2022 / Joan Walsh

What We Won’t Forget From the Hearings on the Uvalde and Buffalo Massacres

What We Won’t Forget From the Hearings on the Uvalde and Buffalo Massacres What We Won’t Forget From the Hearings on the Uvalde and Buffalo Massacres

Even without photographs, we know enough about these tragedies to have them etched in our minds forever.

Jun 9, 2022 / Joan Walsh

Gun safety protesters in Washington, DC

Talk Me Down Here: Can This Country Be Saved? Talk Me Down Here: Can This Country Be Saved?

A backward, oligarchal, misogynist minority is trampling the rights and will of the majority—and it’s only getting worse.

Jun 2, 2022 / Joan Walsh

The GOP Is Lying About the “Great Replacement” Theory

The GOP Is Lying About the “Great Replacement” Theory The GOP Is Lying About the “Great Replacement” Theory

Republicans think they’ve found the blueprint in a 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. Their arguments show they didn’t read it.

May 24, 2022 / Joan Walsh

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