The Nation Weekly: January 6, 2023 Kevin McCarthy’s fails, the godfather of human rights, Lynne Tillman’s memoir, and more

“McCarthy’s ordeal might be worthy of pity—if he himself weren’t such a reprehensibly oily enabler of the far right,” writes national affairs correspondent Jeet Heer. But “by offering a deal…Democrats could highlight the differences between the two parties: one committed to governance, and the other using politics as a theater of expressive rage.”