The PGA is cancelling their longstanding plans to hold its 2022 championship at Trump’s Bedminster golf course in New Jersey.  The New York Times reports he is more devastated by this than by impeachment.  The legendary sportswriter Robert Lipsyte comments on Trump and Golf.  (broadcast originally in August, 2017).

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Biden’s first 100 days begin January 20, and his first acts should include an executive order cancelling student debt—that’s what Astra Taylor says, she’s co-founder of the Debt Collective and has published widely.  Other forms of debt cancellation can follow—medical debt, consumer debt, the coming bills for deferred rent and mortgage payments.

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Eric Foner provides historical perspective on Wednesday's attack on the capitol by that Trump mob, trying to stop Congress from declaring Biden the president-elect--and also on the unprecedented victories in the Georgia Senate races.

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2020 in review: the political year began with Bernie winning early primaries and losing the rest; then came the summer of Black Lives Matter, with the largest protest movement in American history; and then Election Day, without fighting in the streets or the courts overturning the results.  John Nichols comments.

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Amy Wilentz reviews what happened in 2020 to Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior and Eric Trump—boy did those kids get into trouble this year!  Jared was put in charge of pandemic response, Ivanka carried the bible for that disastrous photo-op, and Don Junior and Eric tried to outdo their father on the campaign trail.

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John le Carré died on Saturday—he was 89, and one of the greats, author of two dozen books people called “spy novels,” although they were much more than that. John Powers comments -- he’s critic-at-large on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. 

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Will Donald Trump pardon Ivanka and Jared – and Don Junior and Eric?  What exactly are their crimes?  It sounds like another episode of The Children’s Hour – with Amy Wilentz.

 

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On Monday the Supreme Court heard arguments on Trump’s effort to change the way seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned.  It has been based on a state’s total population, as the Constitution requires; he wants to exclude the undocumented, which would mean California would lose 2 or 3 seats.  David Cole reviews the arguments – he’s The Nation’s legal affairs correspondent and national legal director of the ACLU.

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How are the Trump kids dealing with the refusal of their father to admit he lost the election?  Amy Wilentz comments –  on another episode of “The Children’s Hour,”  stories about Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior, Little Eric--and Lara, who wants to be the first of them to run for office.  But who IS Lara Trump?  Amy Wilentz explains.

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The legendary film critic for the late lamented Village Voice, J. Hoberman, talks about Aaron Sorkin’s new film, playing now on Netflix, “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” He asks the question, “is it great courtroom drama – or boomer porn?” 

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