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Jd Vance
The Nerd Trying to Turn the GOP Populist Oren Cass’s quest to make Republicans heed the interests of their working-class base.
By Eric Levitz
East Palestine Deserves New Rail-Safety Reforms Now More stringent regulation is justified no matter what the investigation into the Norfolk Southern derailment finds.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Oct. 27, 2022
By Ross Barkan
early and often
Oct. 18, 2022
By Matt Stieb
early and often
May 4, 2022
Why Are Conservative Men So Scared of Cat Ladies? Matt Gaetz and J.D. Vance appear to feel threatened by single female cat owners. They’re not the first.
By Sarah Jones
the national interest
May 4, 2022
J.D. Vance Is a Dangerous Authoritarian The only coherent aspect of his worldview is a lust for power.
By Jonathan Chait
2022 midterms
May 3, 2022
Trump Helped Save J.D. Vance in Ohio Thanks to the MAGA king and Peter Thiel’s money, the Hillbilly Elegy author and venture capitalist turned back two strong rivals.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
May 2, 2022
Is Trump Headed for a Nightmare in Ohio on Tuesday? It would be ironic if a Senate primary in which so many candidates sought the MAGA brand was won by the exception.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Apr. 22, 2022
Trump Turns Up the Rancor in the Ohio GOP Senate Primary The former president reportedly told the leader of a PAC who ran ads condemning J.D. Vance to “go f- - - yourself.”
By Matt Stieb
early and often
Apr. 22, 2022
J.D. Vance Explains His Conversion to MAGA Trump’s man in Ohio once called him “America’s Hitler,” but there’s an explanation.
By Ben Jacobs
2022 midterms
Apr. 15, 2022
J.D. Vance’s Rivals Scrambled to Stop Trump From Endorsing Him Other Republican candidates were looking for ways to sabotage what could be a decisive endorsement in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race. It didn’t work.
By Ed Kilgore
J.D. Vance and Donald Trump Were Meant to Be Trump endorsed Vance on Friday. The two have more in common than it might have seemed.
By Sarah Jones
2022 midterms
Mar. 18, 2022
J.D. Vance’s Apathy Toward Ukraine Is Backfiring The overcompensating Ohio Senate candidate has gone ultra-MAGA, but he may have ventured too far with his America First stance on Ukraine.
By Ed Kilgore
The World’s Smallest Violin Is Playing for J.D. Vance The Senate candidate’s pivot to Trump diehard isn’t going all that well.
By Sarah Jones
2022 midterms
Jan. 25, 2022
J.D. Vance Wins the Marjorie Taylor Greene Primary The fiery MAGA extremist Greene has accomplished nothing in Congress. But she’s a power nonetheless and could help Vance win a Senate primary.
By Ed Kilgore
Is Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Smart Politics or ‘Civil War’? Democrats are counting on vaccinated people supporting mandates, while Republicans are freaking out in ways that may reinforce images from January 6.
By Ed Kilgore
voter suppression
July 26, 2021
J.D. Vance: How About We Give Parents Extra Votes? The Senate candidate’s trollish proposal is just the flip side of Republicans’ usual thinking on voter suppression.
By Ed Kilgore
conservatism
July 7, 2021
Tucker Carlson’s Populism Is for the Small-Time Rich The Fox News host’s claims that Joe Biden will destroy the suburbs reveal the true nature of working-class conservatism.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
July 6, 2021
J.D. Vance Apologizes on Fox News for Opposing Trump It was 2016, a different time, and people were saying all kinds of non-crazy things.
By Jonathan Chait
J.D. Vance Is Having a Rough Time God appeared to strike the launch of his Senate campaign in Ohio.
By Sarah Jones
movie review
Nov. 24, 2020
Hillbilly Elegy Is Not the Fun Kind of BadThe Amy Adams and Glenn Close–led adaptation of J.D. Vance’s memoir says more about an idea of prestige cinema than it does the white working class.
By Alison Willmore
What to Read, Watch, and Listen to Instead of Hillbilly Elegy If you’re curious about the Appalachian region, there’s a world of books and films beyond the Netflix movie.
By Sarah Jones
holler aunts
Nov. 18, 2020
Who Is Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy For? The streamer’s piece of Oscar bait, based on J.D. Vance’s controversial memoir, is an exercise in elite arrogance.
By Sarah Jones
movie deals
Apr. 10, 2017
By Jackson McHenry