This week, the US president has announced he is suing the
New York Times for $15bn, and gloated that the late-night TV show
Jimmy Kimmel Live! had been suspended. JD Vance has also promised to crack down on
‘far left’ groups.
Jonathan Freedland speaks to the president of
The Nation magazine, Bhaskar Sunkara, about the future of the constitutional right to free speech for Americans who disagree with Trump