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Politics / December 4, 2025 A barrage of bad economic news has spurred Trump to unleash his hate-infested id on any nonwhite target that flits through his overtaxed brainpan. Ad Policy Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House, on December 2, 2025. (Yuri Gripas / CNP / Bloomberg via Getty Images( Remember “economic anxiety”? That was the central concept in an all-too-representative Democratic effort to explain away the mass movement aligning behind Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Back then, the liberal commentariat was mocking the notion that Trump’s supporters were motivated by questions of economic policy like…

Members of the Pentagon press corps walk out of the Pentagon as a group after turning in their press credentials on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. On Thursday, The New York Times sued the Defense Department and Secretary Pete Hegseth over its new media policy. Kevin Wolf/AP/FR33460 AP hide caption toggle caption Kevin Wolf/AP/FR33460 AP The New York Times sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday over the Pentagon’s new policy that requires media outlets to pledge not to gather information unless defense officials formally authorize its release. That policy, unveiled in September, includes a ban on credentialed journalists reporting even…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents look over lists of names and their hearing times and locations inside the Federal Plaza courthouse in June 2025 in New York. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images Democrats in Washington want to impose legal requirements on whom the Trump administration can bring in as temporary immigration judges, after the White House terminated at least a dozen tenured judges. A bill introduced on Wednesday by California’s Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Juan Vargas would authorize the attorney general to appoint temporary immigration judges that…

Women walk down a street in the predominantly Somali neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis in 2022. The Twin Cities is a hub for Somalis in the U.S. Jessie Wardarski/AP hide caption toggle caption Jessie Wardarski/AP Minnesota boasts the largest population of Somalis in the U.S. — a community that’s recently faced attacks from President Trump. On Tuesday, Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said he wanted to send them “back to where they came from.” He continued on Wednesday, saying, “they’ve destroyed our country and all they do is complain, complain, complain.” The tirade came less than two weeks after…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet Meeting at the White House on Dec. 2. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A Pentagon watchdog has determined that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked the safety of U.S. servicemembers by sharing sensitive military information on the Signal messaging app, according to a source who has reviewed the forthcoming inspector general report.  The report, which is expected to be released as early as Thursday, was launched after a journalist for The Atlantic revealed in March that he had…

Left: Ed Martin was one of the authors of the law now known as IDEA. Before the law, children with disabilities were often turned away from public schools. “They were invisible,” says Martin. Right: Maggie Heilman and her daughter, Brooklynn, 14, at their home in a Kansas City suburb. Brooklynn has Down syndrome and her own special education plan thanks to IDEA. Thomas Simonetti and Katie Currid for NPR hide caption toggle caption Thomas Simonetti and Katie Currid for NPR Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the…

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show: Sports Talk on The Nation podcast! Of course Thanksgiving was a big weekend for football on TV – a weekend where millions of viewers got to see a festival of brain injuries — concussions after receiving blows to the head. Dave Zirin will comment; he’s the long-time sports editor of The Nation and host of the Edge of Sports podcast.But first: Zorhan Mam-DA-ni takes office in four weeks as the first socialist mayor of New York City.  How should we understand the…

Buddy and Josh in the spotlight in the 1997 Walt Disney movie, Air Bud. Walt Disney Pictures hide caption toggle caption Walt Disney Pictures When I first read about how Texas Republicans were preparing to engage in mid-decade redistricting, I sent a text message to a Republican aide in state government, jokingly wondering if Missouri would get in on the fun. It’s no secret that my interest in Missouri redistricting borders on obsession. Some of my love for the subject stems from its importance. The lines and where they are drawn can determine which party has a better shot at…

Economy / Books & the Arts / December 1, 2025 The economic force is often seen as a barometer for a nation’s mood and health. But have we misunderstood it all along? Ad Policy Donald Trump holds a big and a small box of Tic Tac to illustrate inflation outcome during a town hall event at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, on 2024. (Jim Watson / AFP) It was once natural to think that prices rise constantly, no matter how many new ways are found to make more crap more cheaply. Inflation was just a part of life in…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House on Dec. 2. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Trump administration is standing by its controversial campaign of targeting and killing the crews of small boats that are allegedly smuggling drugs from South America to the U.S. But in the face of charges that these strikes amount to execution without trial, the White House is sending a confusing message about who exactly gave each order to use deadly force. The details matter as some in Congress suggest the…