Jon Wiener
Contributing Editor at The Nation
Podcast Host at Start Making Sense Podcast
Host at Living in the USA
co-author with Mike Davis, "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties"; Host of "Start Making Sense," https://t.co/70UyduRYNd
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2 weeks ago |
thenation.com | Jon Wiener
Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the hour — 20 minutes without Trump. Today, literature in 1925, a hundred years ago. 1925 is being celebrated this year as the centenary of ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzerald — but we’re interested in some of the other books published that year.
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1 month ago |
thenation.com | Jon Wiener
Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show, Dahlia Lithwick says “The tide is turning.” She will analyze three key court cases where Trump suffered major defeats, defeats which are likely to have an “exponential effect”on other judges. But first: Sherrod Brown talks about winning back the working class – That’s coming up, in a minute. [BREAK]It’s time to talk politics with Sherrod Brown.
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2 months ago |
thenation.com | Jon Wiener
Ad Policy Trump’s tariffs are not really about trade, they’re a form of blackmail—but the alternative is not a return to the free-trade policies introduced by Clinton and Obama. Lori Wallach of the Rethink Trade program at the American Economic Liberties Project explains what kind of tariffs we need, when combined with government support for reindustrialization.
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2 months ago |
thenation.com | Jon Wiener
Support independent journalism that exposes oligarchs and profiteers Donald Trump’s cruel and chaotic second term is just getting started. In his first month back in office, Trump and his lackey Elon Musk (or is it the other way around?) have proven that nothing is safe from sacrifice at the altar of unchecked power and riches. Only robust independent journalism can cut through the noise and offer clear-eyed reporting and analysis based on principle and conscience.
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2 months ago |
thenation.com | Jon Wiener
Ad Policy The Supreme Court ruled against Trump last week in the first test of his refusal to release money appropriated by Congress, and more than a dozen more similar cases are likely to come before the court—probably including a challenge to his withholding hundreds of millions from research universities on the grounds that they have failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism. But what if Trump defies court decisions that go against him?
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