America couldn’t go on like this. At the end of 1991, their faith in the federal government had collapsed; the president told them that the recession would be over soon, and they didn’t believe it. A ...
I’m confident I’m not the only person looking at this November’s presidential election through parted fingers, feeling powerless to stop what appears to be an unstoppable horror. The U.S. political ...
Some were surprised eight years ago that an amateur politician could run for and then win the presidency by stoking the fires of white rage and resentment against the political establishment. Or that ...
On this episode of The Nation Podcast, John Ganz on the president’s Trump’s ghostwritten canon. D.D. Guttenplan and John Ganz Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the ...
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, by John Ganz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 432 pages, $30 When the Clock Broke, by the progressive essayist ...
When Timothy Snyder’s slim volume On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century was rocketing up the best-seller charts in 2017, I noticed an interesting fact: The most illuminating analysts ...
Left-wing journalist John Ganz has written a new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early Nineties, to answer the question we all want to know: “How ...
“It’s rodeo time in Folsom, Louisiana,” intones correspondent Judd Rose over footage of a man riding a bull. “The night is black, the crowd is white, and the rhetoric is red hot. All eyes are on glib, ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: John Ganz is a Freelance Journalist with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2021 Forum. The year with the highest average number of views per ...