We Need Universal Voting by Mail, and We Need It Now
Countless Americans have died for democracy and the right to vote, but none of them should now have to risk death to exercise it. The coronavirus pandemic led Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and other top...
View ArticleIt’s Joe Biden’s Party Now
The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is now, for all intents and purposes, over. Former Vice President Joe Biden scored decisive and relatively quick victories in Tuesday’s primaries in...
View ArticleDon’t Let Trump Off the Hook for the Coronavirus Crisis
Donald Trump’s first State of the Union in 2017 should have served as a lesson for many in the media. CNN’s Van Jones declared his milquetoast calls for unity the moment he “became president of the...
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Why You Should Watch Movies About Pandemics, During Pandemics
There are a few reasons you might not want to watch a movie about an infectious disease right now. The most obvious is instinctive: Why walk into a fictional, trivializing version of one’s own...
View ArticleGreen Jobs Are the Answer to the Coronavirus Recession
The American economy is headed for a recession. As many as three million people could be out of work by summertime, even with a modest stimulus, the Economic Policy Institute predicted on Thursday. A...
View ArticleInoculating the Coronavirus Vaccine Against the Profit Pandemic
This week, scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Research Institute in Seattle, Washington, administered the first injection of a trial vaccine for the coronavirus. As The Associated Press reported it,...
View ArticleFacing Deportation in a Pandemic
On Friday afternoon in New York City, the day after Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency to help limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, attorneys huddled with their clients in the...
View ArticleThe Brilliant Fault Lines of Little Fires Everywhere
Elena Richardson is pretty, white, and rich; a mother to four children and a wife who schedules sex with her clean-cut, hardworking husband as if she were scheduling a haircut. She has one son...
View ArticleCivic Republicanism: Good for the Jews
In 2016, the Jewish magazine Tablet marked the pending Thanksgiving holiday with an essay outlining the Jewish influences on the nation’s great day of civic-minded feasting. In “Thanksgiving, the...
View ArticleAfter Bernie
It is never really enough to be right. One of the standout moments of Sunday’s primary debate came when Bernie Sanders compared his record on some of the most consequential votes of the last 30 years...
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The Political Media’s Blurred Reality
In the midst of a presidential cycle with Donald Trump and democracy itself on the ballot, the 2012 election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney seems, in hindsight, as benign as a P.G. Wodehouse...
View ArticleMy Life in ICE Detention During the Coronavirus Outbreak
I’m originally from the Dominican Republic, but I’ve been in New York since 1993. I’m 30 years old, with a wife and two stepdaughters, and I’ve been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at...
View ArticleAmazon Warehouse Workers Knew Someone Would Get Sick
It was fall of last year when Jake, who asked that I not use his last name, first started working at an Amazon fulfillment center in Queens. It was a second job—he took it on because he needed some...
View ArticleTrump’s Most Devout Disciple
These days, the green rooms at Fox News are full of pundits and politicians desperate to please President Donald Trump. When Sean Hannity spins the results of the latest poll as a conservative victory,...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Movie of Our Time Isn’t Contagion. It’s Jaws.
Ever since the coronavirus gained a toehold on these shores, freaked-out Americans have been watching Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 movie Contagion, about the race to stop a mysterious, rapidly spreading...
View ArticlePutin Is Perfecting His Authoritarian Model
Façades are everything in Russia. Vladimir Putin learned that the hard way in 2011, when he let his own façade slip at a party convention and publicly admitted to an end run around the country’s...
View ArticleThe Democrats Screwed Up
After former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero met with Joe Biden in 2010, two words stuck with him: tears and suffering.That’s according to Zapatero’s 2013 memoir, The Dilemma. The...
View ArticleThe New Republic Announces New Hires, Podcast and Launches New Visual...
New York, NY — (February 13, 2020) — As The New Republic showcases an elegant and ambitious redesign with its March 2020 issue, the premier journal of liberal opinion also has announced significant...
View ArticleThe New Republic Takes on Pack Journalism and the Media’s Obsession with...
NEW YORK — (March 19, 2020) — In the midst of the ongoing pandemic, The New Republic’s team of journalists is extensively covering the developments of the coronavirus’s spread and its impact on...
View ArticleOur Never-Ending Recession
For the last four decades, “the economy” has been less a measure of any kind of shared prosperity than a weathervane for the investment portfolios of the 1 percent. That was never clearer than during...
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