Is the Recount Assuring Electoral Integrity, or Wasting Money on a Distraction? Is the Recount Assuring Electoral Integrity, or Wasting Money on a Distraction?
John Nichols on the recounts, Katrin Hansing on Fidel Castro, and Walter Mosley on capitalism and socialism.
Dec 1, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
In the Same Election In the Same Election
“President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he had fallen short in the popular vote in the general election only because millions of people had voted illegally, leveling t…
Dec 1, 2016 / Column / Calvin Trillin
We Need to Kill the Electoral College We Need to Kill the Electoral College
It’s a foul remnant of 18th-century oligarchs and slaveholders, designed to thwart the will of the people.
Dec 1, 2016 / John Nichols
Trump Thinks the Law Is for Wusses Trump Thinks the Law Is for Wusses
But guess who’s really getting conned.
Dec 1, 2016 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment Post-Truth and Its Consequences: What a 25-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About the Current Moment
“We are rapidly becoming prototypes of a people that totalitarian monsters could only drool about in their dreams,” a Nation writer said in 1992.
Nov 30, 2016 / Richard Kreitner
Elaine Chao, Ruined Department of Labor, Picked to Ensure Safety of Nation’s Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Elaine Chao, Ruined Department of Labor, Picked to Ensure Safety of Nation’s Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Under her leadership, the Department of Labor routinely ignored complaints about wage theft and workplace safety.
Nov 30, 2016 / Spencer Woodman
In Carrier Deal, Trump Is Taking Credit for Some Blatant Crony Capitalism In Carrier Deal, Trump Is Taking Credit for Some Blatant Crony Capitalism
Trump promised to get tough with companies that offshore jobs. He never said anything about buying them off with our tax dollars.
Nov 30, 2016 / Joshua Holland
Wilbur Ross and Steve Mnuchin—Profiteers of the Great Foreclosure Machine—Go to Washington Wilbur Ross and Steve Mnuchin—Profiteers of the Great Foreclosure Machine—Go to Washington
Mnuchin and Ross led companies that committed fraud to foreclose on millions of homeowners. Now they will be in charge of the entire US economy. What could go wrong?
Nov 30, 2016 / David Dayen
How to Survive an Anti-Feminist Backlash How to Survive an Anti-Feminist Backlash
We can’t relax, and we can’t assume that everything will work out.
Nov 30, 2016 / Sady Doyle
False Narratives, Not ‘Fake News,’ Are the Real Cold-War Problem False Narratives, Not ‘Fake News,’ Are the Real Cold-War Problem
Any détente initiatives by President-elect Trump must break with spurious US accounts of the new Cold War.
Nov 30, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen