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Jon Wiener: From The Nation Magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show, we feature some special songs for the season: Bob Dylan’s Christmas album. “Bells are ringin’, children singin’, all is merry and bright” — later in the show.  But first: Los Angeles versus Donald Trump: Bill Gallegos has that story – in a minute.[BREAK] JW: One of the most important chapters in the history of 2025 is the story of how LA defeated Donald Trump. In June 2025, he sent more than 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to occupy the city…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio listens as President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON — The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations, fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the…

A federal agent pushes the wife of the detained man from Ecuador to the ground on September 25, 2025 in New York City. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephanie Keith/Getty Images In the span of less than 72 hours, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Victor Mojica went from being widely vilified and placed on administrative leave — to being returned right back to his old job. On a Friday in September, Mojica was caught on several cameras roughly pushing a woman into the hallway and then to the ground, as the woman screamed. The incident at an immigration…

In 2025, StudentNation published more than 100 original articles by student journalists reporting on youth-oriented movements and issues across the country—from the continued protests for Gaza to climate change to immigration to education—all while student writers and activists faced increased repression from the Trump administration and, often, their own universities. We’ve selected 20 of StudentNation’s best articles of the year to highlight the extraordinary range of reporting from the next generation. We’re deeply grateful to the Puffin Foundation whose great generosity to The Nation Fund for Independent Journalism made this work possible. Measures to allow local noncitizen voting failed in the…

In 2025, President Trump pushed Republican-led states to find advantages in 2026’s elections by redrawing congressional maps. The outcome may determine which party controls the House after midterms. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: One of the big topics in politics this year has been redistricting. President Trump set off a race to reshape the voting map before next year’s congressional elections. He’s been pushing Republican lawmakers across the country to redistrict so their party can hold on to the House. That is key to his MAGA agenda. For a look at where it all stands, we’re joined now by Andrew Schneider of…

Politics / December 23, 2025 Under the Trump administration’s anti-DEI directives, colleges would be forced to abandon gender balancing, disadvantaging men. Ad Policy President Donald Trump in the White House in January 2025.(Hu Yousong / Xinhua via Getty Images) One of the best-kept secrets about DEI is that it helps men—that includes white men—get into college. If you do not work in admissions, you are likely unaware of this fact, and that’s by design; one admissions officer even told The Wall Street Journal it’s “higher education’s dirty little secret.” But it’s been true for decades. Women’s college enrollment surpassed men’s…

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec.15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America The Justice Department released a new batch of files Tuesday related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein which contain hundreds of references to President Trump. Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection to Epstein though he had a well-documented friendship with the disgraced financier in the 1980s, ’90s, and 2000s. This latest tranche gives more details on Trump’s relationship with Epstein, including documentation of Trump flying on…

Culture / December 23, 2025 Ad Policy People stand outside the Met amidst thunder storms on Tuesday, July 4, in Manhattan, New York.(Barry Williams / Getty Images) Why did the Metropolitan Museum remove the John Wilson banner that last autumn had been gracing its façade? That arresting image was made from a tiny portrait of the artist’s brother, expanded to monumental public proportions, that announced the Met’s “Witnessing Humanity” exhibit, a Wilson retrospective that continues through February 8. In the picture, the brother’s brow is steadfast, his gaze grave and alert, mouth and chin resolutely composed; perhaps no Black face…

Consumer spending has been a key engine of the U.S. economy, but polls show Americans are getting more concerned about their finances. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images The U.S. economy grew robustly in July, August and September, powered by steady consumer spending, especially on health care. The gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the nation’s economic activity — for the third quarter grew at an annual rate of 4.3%, much faster than the 3.8% expansion seen between April and June, according to the Commerce Department on Tuesday. Growth has picked up from the…

Over the past year you’ve read Nation writers like Elie Mystal, Kaveh Akbar, John Nichols, Joan Walsh, Bryce Covert, Dave Zirin, Jeet Heer, Michael T. Klare, Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Gregg Gonsalves, and Sasha Abramsky take on the Trump family’s corruption, set the record straight about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s catastrophic Make America Healthy Again movement, survey the fallout and human cost of the DOGE wrecking ball, anticipate the Supreme Court’s dangerous antidemocratic rulings, and amplify successful tactics of resistance on the streets and in Congress. We publish these stories because when members of our communities are being abducted, household…