Thrilled to be nominated! Thanks to my brilliant editor David Marcus, who commissioned me as well as another finalist, and who has made The Nation's Books and the Arts section such a vital space for book criticism.

Last month, I sat down with Katrina vandenHeuvel and John Nichols to talk about the legacy of Fiorella La Guardia, how we're building a new kind of politics to meet this moment, and our mission to deliver a dignified life for the working people of this city.

What does Joe McCarthy have to teach us about Donald Trump? My review of Clay Risen’s excellent book on the Red Scare | The Nation thenation.com/article/societ…

"Part of the magic of 'The Möbius Book' is that new metaphors and meanings emerge and come into focus as one reads its two different parts." A lovely piece on past The Cullman Center Fellow Catherine Lacey's fiction and her genre-bending latest in The Nation: thenation.com/article/cultur…

The real unstated thing here is that liberals/third way types very much did have an affirmative vision of their own in the very recent past. It involved changing society by empowering the “new economy.” The result was Elon Musk.

Get yourself a seat at the table. Form a union.

Forgive me for being unsophisticated but maybe leftists (and many non-leftists) simply don't like having their tax dollars used to starve and slaughter an entire population

The 19th century had the Congress of Vienna, the 20th century Versailles and Yalta and Bandung, the 21st century had… this

Free Gifts is officially out today!!

Democratic leaders refusing to endorse Mamdani are, quite literally, afraid of the future of the party. Shameful given the moment we are in.

And congratulation to our finalists: David Klion (David Klion) in The Nation (The Nation), for his review of The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump by Alexander Ward Books and the Arts David Marcus

Emily Wilson in The Nation (The Nation), for her review of Wrong Norma by Anne Carson Books and the Arts David Marcus

Why destroy a university from the outside only when you can destroy a university from the inside and the outside?

You guys are doing just fine

I am disappointed that the DFL has stripped the DFL Endorsement from Senator Omar Fateh, who clearly had overwhelming support at the convention. They met privately and voted to overturn the will of Minneapolis delegates. An effort led by Mayor Jacob Frey. 1/

Let me be clear, the DFL is following the nationwide pattern that continues to ignore working people and the needs of our diverse communities. The establishment prefers to listen to donors and the wealthy over the party base. 6/

Bernie gets standing ovation calling for an end to arms sales to Israel in Republican-held rural Viroqua, Wisconsin. “And the reason we don’t have more Republican or Democratic support has a lot to do with Super PACs like AIPAC.”