It was only the next morning that I realized paying minute attention to the internal workings of a mob family wasn’t as far removed from the content of my job as I’d thought. How will Trump Administration II: Wrath of the Donald compare to its predecessor?

For predictions, watch this space. Or rather, read our latest issue, where Anatol Lieven lays out the only alternative to forever war in Ukraine, Katherine Franke explains how lawyers dropped her after she supported student protests, Michael Klare points out how climate change will impact national security—something neither candidate addressed during the campaign—and Jackie Mader flags the human cost of the GOP’s push to deregulate childcare.

And for those of you who looking for solace from dire news, we offer some in the form of gorgeous pages from Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s sketchbooks, Cole Stangler’s mediation on Michel Houellebecq’s discontents, Vanessa Ogle’s tour of former Nation senior editor Atossa Araxia Abrahamian’s guide to global free zones, and Farah Abdesammad’s examination of the history of ethnographic museums.  Plus, for the dialectically inclined, David Bell’s meditation on a weak rendering of communism’s history, and David Klion’s review of Ali Abbasi’s portrait of the president-elect as a young grifter.

Elsewhere in the issue, I urge readers to do what I’ll urge you to do now: “Spend

time with the people you love and give yourself time to grieve.” This is going

to be a long battle, and we need to look after ourselves—and each other.  But when you’re ready to rejoin the fight, The Nation will be there, as we have been for the past 159 years.  And for that, and for all of our readers and supporters—and staff and contributors—I am truly thankful.

-D.D. Guttenplan

Editor, The Nation

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