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Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the hour: Congress must challenge Trump’s war on Iran and assert its constitutional duty to take up War Powers resolutions and assert its primacy over matters of war and peace. That shouldn’t be hard—the latest polls show that only […]

By pandering to the president’s vanity, the New York mayor reinforced Trump’s image as a strongman commanding deference—an especially bad look on the eve of Trump’s war with Iran Ad Policy New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes a strongman happy. (Image via X.com) It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. At

Even before February 28, the reasons for Donald Trump’s imploding approval rating were abundantly clear: untrammeled corruption and personal enrichment to the tune of billions of dollars during an affordability crisis, a foreign policy guided only by his own derelict sense of morality, and the deployment of a murderous campaign of occupation, detention, and deportation

Democratic nominee James Talarico is getting national media attention, but the real story is sky-high voter turnout, even amid GOP bids to suppress balloting Ad Policy Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico at a March 2 rally in Houston (Danielle Villasana / Getty Images) Texas has now been home to the most expensive general election Senate

Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders. Ad Policy Screenshot from a White House video showing pastors praying over Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 5, 2026. (Dan Scavino / X) Donald Trump has often praised William McKinley, a White House predecessor who shared the

Even before February 28, the reasons for Donald Trump’s imploding approval rating were abundantly clear: untrammeled corruption and personal enrichment to the tune of billions of dollars during an affordability crisis, a foreign policy guided only by his own derelict sense of morality, and the deployment of a murderous campaign of occupation, detention, and deportation

In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent shares his thoughts on the Texas primaries. Plus, a terrible Supreme Court decision and a bad play by Major League Baseball. Ad Policy Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) takes part in a campaign event outside Round Rock Donuts on March 3, 2026. (John Moore

Josh Gosfield Raw truth: MAHA is NUTS. The post RFK Jr. America’s Snake Oil Salesman appeared first on The Nation.

The DNC is allegedly hiding a report showing that Kamala Harris’s Gaza policy helped cost her the 2024 election. But that report won’t tell us anything we don’t already know. Ad Policy Kamala Harris, campaigning in Washington, DC, faces protests from hundreds of people expressing disapproval of her administration’s Gaza policy, on October 29, 2024.

Finally, someone in the administration is paying for their cruelty and incompetence. Ad Policy Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is sworn in as she testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security on March 3, 2026. (Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images) Finally, justice for little Cricket.