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.

Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham’s Desperation Is Getting Deadly Lindsey Graham’s Desperation Is Getting Deadly

Graham is risking his Senate seat and public health by refusing to take a Covid test before SCOTUS hearings. His GOP colleagues could stop him, but they won’t.

Oct 12, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Senator Kamala Harris at the vice presidential debate, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Kamala Harris Made It Look Easy. It Wasn’t. Kamala Harris Made It Look Easy. It Wasn’t.

Harris needed to show us she could beat Vice President Mike Pence—and stay smiling. She did that and more.

Oct 8, 2020 / Joan Walsh

The Man Protected by ‘Mother’ Has Rarely Dealt With a Woman Like Kamala

The Man Protected by ‘Mother’ Has Rarely Dealt With a Woman Like Kamala The Man Protected by ‘Mother’ Has Rarely Dealt With a Woman Like Kamala

It won’t be easy for him.

Oct 7, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Get Ready for Election Month 2020

Get Ready for Election Month 2020 Get Ready for Election Month 2020

We won’t know on November 3 who won the White House.

Oct 1, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Yes, That Debate Was a Shit Show

Yes, That Debate Was a Shit Show Yes, That Debate Was a Shit Show

If the election goes anything like the first debate, Trump will cheat brazenly—but maybe not get away with it.

Sep 30, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Amy Coney Barrett’s Extremist Religious Beliefs Merit Examination

Amy Coney Barrett’s Extremist Religious Beliefs Merit Examination Amy Coney Barrett’s Extremist Religious Beliefs Merit Examination

Her Catholicism is irrelevant. The worldview of the fringe right-wing sect she has grown up in definitely isn’t.

Sep 26, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Democrats Can’t Take Any Option Off the Table

Democrats Can’t Take Any Option Off the Table Democrats Can’t Take Any Option Off the Table

The tendency to pretend the old norms still prevail is part of what’s gotten the nation to this awful crisis.

Sep 22, 2020 / Joan Walsh

Do Florida Democrats Want to Win the State Senate This Year?

Do Florida Democrats Want to Win the State Senate This Year? Do Florida Democrats Want to Win the State Senate This Year?

Party leaders’ reluctance to support promising challengers, and a penchant for punishing those who complain about that lack of support, provokes the question.

Sep 17, 2020 / Joan Walsh

A Democratic Convention for Acknowledging Pain, and for Healing

A Democratic Convention for Acknowledging Pain, and for Healing A Democratic Convention for Acknowledging Pain, and for Healing

What I remember most about the DNC: facing our widespread suffering and committing to righting the wrongs that got us here.

Sep 4, 2020 / Feature / Joan Walsh

A Lawless Attorney General Hits New Lows

A Lawless Attorney General Hits New Lows A Lawless Attorney General Hits New Lows

In a CNN interview, William Barr showed total willingness to bend, break, or deny the law on behalf of his boss.

Sep 3, 2020 / Joan Walsh

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