![The new face of the resistance? Outgoing Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/mitch-mcconnell-getty.jpg)
It Would Be Idiotic to Make Mitch McConnell the Face of Anti-Trump Resistance It Would Be Idiotic to Make Mitch McConnell the Face of Anti-Trump Resistance
Countering imaginary isolationism, the outgoing Senate Republican leader advocates a return to Cold War militarism.
Dec 17, 2024 / Jeet Heer
![Democratic political consultant David Plouffe](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/plouffe-getty.jpg)
The Dead Hand of the Democratic Consultant Class The Dead Hand of the Democratic Consultant Class
Breaking the grip of grifters who refuse to learn or leave won’t be easy. But it is essential to effectively opposing the coming plutocracy.
Dec 17, 2024 / D.D. Guttenplan
![Partners for peace? Trump meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June 2019. Instead of attacking Trump’s diplomatic initiatives as “weak,” Democrats should support negotiations.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-1291575273-1.jpg)
Progressives Can’t Afford to Spend the Next 4 Years Just Playing Defense Progressives Can’t Afford to Spend the Next 4 Years Just Playing Defense
Or reflexively denouncing every Trump policy. While we mustn’t underestimate the danger he poses to our democracy, when he says he wants to end war, the left should call his bluff...
Dec 17, 2024 / Matthew Duss
![The pure products of America: Roy Cohn and Donald Trump at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, on March 20, 1983.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/trumpcohn.jpg)
Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk Donald Trump Is the Authentic American Berserk
Far from being an alien interloper, the incoming president draws from homegrown authoritarianism.
Dec 13, 2024 / Jeet Heer
![American Carnage?](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1440_FEAT-9.jpg)
American Carnage? American Carnage?
Trump promises a Project 2025 future.
Dec 13, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
![https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Palestine-Protest-Yale-University.jpg](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Palestine-Protest-Yale-U.jpg)
Yale Students Voted to Divest, but What’s Next is Unclear Yale Students Voted to Divest, but What’s Next is Unclear
The referendum calls on the school to divest its $41 billion endowment from military weapons manufacturing firms, yet the power to do so is in the hands of the board of trustees.
Dec 13, 2024 / StudentNation / Maggie Grether
![Try Your Imperial Highness](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1440_FEAT-6.jpg)
Try Your Imperial Highness Try Your Imperial Highness
Now do it for him.
Dec 12, 2024 / OppArt / Steve Brodner
![Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, speaks in front of attendees during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 4, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/laratrump.jpg)
At CPAC Argentina, a Preview of Donald Trump’s Second Term At CPAC Argentina, a Preview of Donald Trump’s Second Term
A far-right international extending from Lara Trump and Steve Bannon to Jair Bolsonaro and Javier Milei joined reactionaries across Europe to promise no safe quarter for the left....
Dec 6, 2024 / Jacob Sugarman