GOP Senators Face a Reckoning Over Impeachment GOP Senators Face a Reckoning Over Impeachment
They’re in a politically perilous position: If they defend Trump, they alienate the majority of voters; if they vote to convict, they alienate their own base.
Feb 9, 2021 / Sasha Abramsky
Will American Sports Recover From Trumpism? Will American Sports Recover From Trumpism?
Over the past four years, Trumpism has gradually replaced sports as America’s most compelling live entertainment.
Feb 9, 2021 / Robert Lipsyte
Liz Cheney Is Right on Impeachment, and Wrong on Everything Else Liz Cheney Is Right on Impeachment, and Wrong on Everything Else
Don’t make a hero of this neoconservative, warmongering, hate-amplifying apologist for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Feb 8, 2021 / John Nichols
President Biden Is Our Chance to End the Federal Death Penalty President Biden Is Our Chance to End the Federal Death Penalty
Trump’s execution spree laid bare some of the death penalty’s fundamental flaws.
Feb 8, 2021 / Sister Helen Prejean
Even in Death, Sheldon Adelson Will Keep Undermining Democracy Even in Death, Sheldon Adelson Will Keep Undermining Democracy
Wherever the casino magnate went, corruption—be it moral, legal, political, or cultural—was never far behind.
Feb 8, 2021 / Eric Alterman
Representative Jamie Raskin Is Going to Prosecute the Hell Out of Donald Trump Representative Jamie Raskin Is Going to Prosecute the Hell Out of Donald Trump
The lead impeachment manager’s letter demanding that Trump testify is a masterstroke that signals Raskin will pull no punches.
Feb 5, 2021 / John Nichols
Republicans Have the Biden Presidency Caught in a Unity Trap Republicans Have the Biden Presidency Caught in a Unity Trap
While fake unity just means doing whatever Republicans want, authentic unity requires marginalizing the promoters of lies and racism in the interest of creating a more genuinely eq...
46 and Done: Why Joe Biden Should Be Our Last President 46 and Done: Why Joe Biden Should Be Our Last President
Parliamentary democracies give their citizens tuition-free college, state-subsidized child care, generous paid leave, socialized medicine. We get “Hail to the Chief.”
Feb 5, 2021 / Column / Alexis Grenell
If Senators Won’t Kill the Filibuster, They Should at Least Sweat for It If Senators Won’t Kill the Filibuster, They Should at Least Sweat for It
The current version of the filibuster demands nothing of senators other than the desire to gum up democracy. That has to change.
Feb 4, 2021 / Elie Mystal for The Nation