November 11, 2025
THE NATION
By: Katha Pollitt
Magazines take a few months to put together, so I’m writing my annual holiday donations column in October. It isn’t even Halloween yet! Things look bleak right now, but by the time you read these words, who knows? Maybe Zohran Mamdani will be mayor-elect of New York, all those candidates you wrote postcards for will have won, Donald Trump will have run off to a Buddhist monastery, and JD Vance will have quit to start the Cat Lovers for Taylor Swift Fan Club. Sign me up, JD! …
12. Defending Our Neighbors Fund Right now, all over the country, immigrants are at risk of detention, deportation, and family separation. Too often they have no access to legal representation, even if they are children. This fund, a project of the ACLU and other groups, aims to remedy that. Lawyers to the rescue!
