John Nichols

Wisconsin

National Affairs Correspondent at The Nation

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Articles

Harvey Milk Loved Something That Scares Pete Hegseth: Democracy

2 days ago | thenation.com | John Nichols

Politics / June 5, 2025 Harvey Milk Loved Something That Scares Pete Hegseth: DemocracyThe defense secretary’s scheme to rename a Navy ship honoring the LGBTQ+ rights activist is an insult to what’s most hopeful about the American experiment.
Joni Ernst’s Cruelty and Sarcasm Might Cost Her Her Job

4 days ago | thenation.com | John Nichols

Politics / June 3, 2025 Joni Ernst’s Cruelty and Sarcasm Might Cost Her Her JobIowa’s Republican senator says gutting Medicaid is no worry because “we all are going to die.” Voters seem to disagree. Ad Policy Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) arrives for a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.
Opinion | Medicaid cut sarcasm spells political trouble for the GOP

4 days ago | captimes.com | John Nichols

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan has been arguing for months that the way to upend GOP control of the House and Senate is by simply encouraging his conservative colleagues to reveal their own cruelty. “When they show up for actual town meetings, which is not very often, they can’t help themselves.
How Charlie Rangel Defied His Party to Save New York From the Reactionary Right

1 week ago | thenation.com | John Nichols

Politics / May 29, 2025 How Charlie Rangel Defied His Party to Save New York From the Reactionary RightThe late congressman’s upending of New York politics by choosing progressivism over partisanship offers a lesson for today. Ad Policy Charlie Rangel in Harlem in 1970.
Opinion | Bruce Springsteen is an American patriot

1 week ago | captimes.com | John Nichols

Donald Trump was enraged by Bruce Springsteen’s righteous rebuke of the 47th president as “an unfit president” leading “a rogue government” that has “no concern or idea for what it means to be deeply American.” Still, there was something remarkable about the fact that, after Springsteen launched his European tour on May 14 with a pronouncement that the United States “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,” the president of the United States, the...
They F’ed Around With Philly DA Larry Krasner... and Found Out

2 weeks ago | thenation.com | John Nichols

Politics / May 23, 2025 They F’ed Around With Philly DA Larry Krasner… and Found OutPhiladelphia’s progressive DA stood up to Trump, and to compromising Democrats. He just won his reelection primary by a 2–1 margin. Ad Policy Larry Krasner after winning the Democratic primary for Philadelphia district attorney on May 20, 2025.
Opinion | Working-class Democrat Bryce takes on GOP's Steil for House

2 weeks ago | captimes.com | John Nichols

Eight years ago, in the first year of Donald Trump’s first presidential term, a union ironworker from southeast Wisconsin mounted an audacious challenge to the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Arguing that Republican Paul Ryan — who was then the most powerful figure on Capitol Hill and who had taken the lead in implementing sweeping tax cuts for the rich — was out of touch with working-class people, Democrat Randy Bryce declared, “Let’s trade places.
Democrats Are Overperforming in 2025 Thanks to Trump and a Fresh Focus on Grassroots Organizing

2 weeks ago | thenation.com | John Nichols

Politics / May 20, 2025 Democrats Are Overperforming in 2025 Thanks to Trump and a Fresh Focus on Grassroots OrganizingMore than 16,000 volunteers are already in the field, creating what DNC chair Ken Martin describes as an unprecedented organizing infrastructure for a non-presidential year. Ad Policy Ken Martin, then the chair of the Minnesota DFL party and now the chair of the DNC, introduces Amy Klobuchar to an election watch party in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 5, 2024.
Springsteen Gets America in Ways Trump Never Will

2 weeks ago | thenation.com | John Nichols

May 19, 2025 Springsteen Gets America in Ways Trump Never WillAnd that reality has caused the president of the United States to lose it. Edit Ad Policy (Shirlaine Forrest / Getty Images; Win McNamee / Getty Images) It will come as a surprise to no one that Donald Trump has never liked Bruce Springsteen.
How Democrats Crushed a Despicable Anti-Trans Campaign and Won a Major Election

3 weeks ago | thenation.com | John Nichols

Politics / May 16, 2025 How Democrats Crushed a Despicable Anti-Trans Campaign and Won a Major Election The supposedly unbeatable Republican mayor of Nebraska’s largest city used the GOP’s anti-LGBTQ+ playbook in her reelection bid. And lost! Ad Policy John Ewing pumps his fist after the second round of results are announced at the election night watch party for Ewing for Omaha mayor at the downtown Hilton in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday, May 13, 2025.