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A Paraguayan woman whose relative was detained by federal agents scuffles with officers in the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on in New York City in July 2025. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images An immigration judge issues a stern warning: “If you don’t show up, there is a good chance the court will order you removed.” She speaks to an immigrant from El Salvador in a quiet immigration courtroom in Hyattsville, Md., in November. Clad in an all-black dress jacket and shirt, the immigrant — who was identified only…

Economy / December 16, 2025 The agency is unlawfully giving up on fighting disparate impact discrimination—meaning it’s “open season” on employees. Ad Policy Amazon delivery driver Leah Cross has alleged that Amazon’s delivery quota amounts to workplace discrimination. Pictured here, a driver makes deliveries in Lakewood, Colorado, in 2023.(RJ Sangosti / MediaNews Group / The Denver Post via Getty Images) In August of 2022, just after Prime Day, Leah Cross started working as an Amazon delivery driver in Colorado. She took the job because she had long heard that it was a decent and paid well. She thought it would…

Erika Kirk greets Vice President JD Vance during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Phoenix. Jon Cherry/AP hide caption toggle caption Jon Cherry/AP PHOENIX — Vice President JD Vance said Sunday the conservative movement should be open to everyone as long as they “love America,” declining to condemn a streak of antisemitism that has divided the Republican Party and roiled the opening days of Turning Point USA’s annual convention. After a long weekend of debates about whether the movement should exclude figures such as bigoted podcaster Nick Fuentes, Vance came down firmly against “purity tests.” “I…

Objection! / December 16, 2025 In making frequent, ill use of the “shadow docket,” the high court is not just handing Trump policy victories. It’s upending the rule of law. Ad Policy (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images) This article appears in the January 2026 issue, with the headline “Hidden Injustice.” Courts play an important role in authoritarian regimes. They legitimize the actions of despots by declaring them “legal” or “constitutional.” They ensure institutional compliance with the regime’s rules. And they make politically unpopular decisions that align with the authoritarian’s goals while giving the authoritarian political distance from…

Attorney General Pam Bondi, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) and FBI Director Kash Patel (R), speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on Nov. 19. Some lawmakers said the department’s release of files relating to Jeffrey Epstein had too many redactions as well as missing information. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Two lawmakers are threatening a seldom-used congressional sanction against the Department of Justice over what they say is a failure to release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a deadline set in law. Reps.…

Editorial / December 16, 2025 This year, progressive young Democrats sketched a path to meaningful wins in 2026. Is the party paying attention? Ad Policy Volunteers mount a campaign poster for Aftyn Behn on December 2, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee.(Jon Cherry / Getty Images) This article appears in the January 2026 issue, with the headline “Victory From Defeat.” Democrats have developed an uncanny skill for seizing defeat from the jaws of victory in recent years. That didn’t happen, though, in the December 2 special election to fill a US House seat in Tennessee. While progressive Democrat Aftyn Behn fell short…

Mississippi Supreme Court justices listen to arguments in Jackson, Miss., on July 6, 2023. On Friday, a judge ordered special elections for the court after earlier finding that the electoral map used to select justices violates the Voting Rights Act. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption toggle caption Rogelio V. Solis/AP JACKSON, Miss. — A judge on Friday ordered special elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court after earlier finding that the electoral map used to select justices violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock in August ordered Mississippi to redraw the map, which was enacted…

Politics / December 17, 2025 Trump’s crude disdain for the slain filmmaker was undoubtedly rooted in the fact that Reiner so ably used his talents to help dethrone him in 2020. Ad Policy Rob Reiner attends the Human Rights Campaign’s 2025 LA Dinner at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, March 22, 2025. (Michael Tran / AFP via Getty Images) In the fall of 2020, at a point when Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden were locked in their high-stakes competition for the presidency of the United States, Wisconsin ranked as the ultimate battleground state. It had backed…

Congress is wrapping up the year in the shadow of the longest government shutdown and with a growing reputation as the least productive in modern history. “Congress is in a coma. It has a pulse, but not many brainwaves,” said former Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat who represented Tennessee for 32 years. “It’s hard to tell that it’s even alive as an institution.” A record number of lawmakers are calling it quits ahead of the midterm elections next year and are running for the Capitol exits, pursuing different offices or retiring from political life altogether. While there’s a temptation to…

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener.  Later in the hour: the crossword puzzle clues that exposed the hidden politics of the New York Times crossword editors: Natan Last will explain. His new book is Across the Universe: the Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle.  But first: the Important People in the Epstein files – what was wrong with them? Katha Pollitt will comment – in a minute. [BREAK] This coming Friday is the big deadline for the Justice Department to turn over its Epstein files to Congress. House Democrats have…