Nathan J. Robinson

3 days ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

Even by the standards of right-wing rhetoric, Miller’s public statements are uncommonly shameless. He treats his audience as stupid and gullible. “The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

1 week ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

The former governor is a corrupt sexual harasser with a pro-corporate agenda and a proven track record of deadly negligence. He will do nothing to improve New Yorkers’ lives. Why on Earth is he a contender for mayor? About ten years ago, I used to visit a prison in upstate New York as part of a program that brought law students and prisoners together for conversation and education. One of the inmates who attended our group was an older gentleman known as Mr. Smalls.

1 week ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

The killing of civilians is wrong. It fuels a cycle of hatred and trauma. It has no justification. So why don’t we apply that lesson consistently? Why are some mourned more than others? They were a young couple with their whole lives ahead of them. They had been planning their wedding for a year. They had only just gotten married when they were killed. They wanted nothing to do with war, they just wanted to live their lives together. But their killer did not think twice before taking their lives.

2 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

The Democratic Party is sclerotic. It’s easy to heap blame on Joe Biden now that he is weak and powerless. But that’s a convenient way of avoiding a major reckoning. “He totally fucked us,” says Kamala Harris’s former top campaign aide David Plouffe. He’s quoted in Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, the much-hyped new book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson.

2 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

MAGA millionaires RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz want to throw poor people off Medicaid. But healthcare is a human right. The New York Times op-ed page gives space to some of the worst arguments ever made, so it’s unsurprising to find anti-vaccine crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (net worth: $30 million) and TV huckster Dr. Oz (net worth: $200 million) joining forces to argue in the Times that we should strip poor people of their healthcare benefits.