A Hopeful Welcome to 2026
On this first day of the new year 2026 we speak with Richard Parker, who teaches economics and public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is a Senior Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. He is a former managing editor of Ramparts, was a cofounder of Mother Jones magazine, and serves on the editorial board of The Nation. His books include, The Myth of the Middle Class and John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. He joins us to suggest what we might be able to look forward to in the new year after what was a difficult if not dark year of 2025.
Could 2026 Be the Beginning of the End of Trump’s Reign of Ruin?
Then we speak with John Nichols, The Nation magazine’s Washington correspondent. His books include The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics, and most recently, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. His latest article at The Nation is “Recent Democratic Victories Have Republicans Running Scared” and we assess the likelihood of the beginning of the end of Trump’s reign of ruin in 2026.