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The Righteous Power of the George Floyd Mural
On May 28, a group of artists got to work on the side of the Cup Foods grocery store, on the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue South in Minneapolis. Three days earlier, George Floyd had been...
View ArticleNeil Gorsuch Just Upended the Conservative Legal Project
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employers from discriminating against workers on multiple grounds, including their sex. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the sex-discrimination...
View ArticleTrump’s Antifa Derangement Syndrome
On June 4, a Buffalo police officer shoved 75-year-old Martin Gugino to the ground as his colleagues attempted to clear an area, to enforce a curfew during a Black Lives Matter protest. As with so many...
View ArticleThe Pandemic-Era Rebrand of Family Separation
After a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, the city’s police department first released a statement to the press attributing his death to an act of nature: “Man dies after medical incident...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Coast Pipeline Battle Is About People, Not Precedent
Decision day at the Supreme Court on Monday brought joy and justice for the LGBT community. But it also handed severe setbacks to others—specifically, the Appalachian and Southern communities who...
View ArticleTrump’s Potemkin Reelection Campaign
In a presidential campaign, few decisions prompt more meetings and memos than the candidate’s schedule. Time is the most irreplaceable commodity in politics—and it is folly to squander it on events in...
View ArticleA Glimpse of a Trans Future
Back in October, the evening before oral arguments in her Supreme Court case, I met Aimee Stephens and her wife at a Hyatt not far from the court. She wasn’t unprepared when her boss, Thomas Rost,...
View ArticleDon’t Just Save the Postal Service. Reinvent It.
If we’re lucky enough to see the derangements of the current era pass—such as the Trump administration and its farcical response to a once-in-a-century pandemic—the stewards of the next phase in...
View ArticleAsterix Comes to America
From inside his comic strip rectangle, one of Cleopatra’s lackeys makes a face as he tastes her snack for poison. “Yuck,” he thinks. “I hate too much pearl in my vinegar.” I loved this page of Asterix...
View ArticleThe Political Power of Protests
After three weeks of protests against police violence, the energy of the demonstrations remains undiminished. Episode 10 of The Politics of Everything explores what is motivating the actions, the...
View ArticleInside the Fight to Shape Biden’s Climate Policy
Once one of the weakest Democratic presidential hopefuls on climate, presumptive nominee Joe Biden won activists’ praise when his campaign announced it was bringing Bernie Sanders–aligned progressive...
View ArticleThe Solution to Police Murder Is Not More Money
In my neighborhood of D.C., there is a Whole Foods on P Street NW, between 14th and 15th. Prior to its ultragentrification, the neighborhood was home to one of the city’s most well-known homeless...
View ArticleThe Gentlemanly Hater’s Guide to Gone With the Wind
Until this week, I had never seen Gone With the Wind. That neglect was one of the very few things keeping me feeling young at age 43. But then HBO temporarily pulled the movie from its streaming...
View ArticleLetting Jeffrey Epstein’s Pals Off the Hook
This we know: On August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, a prolific pedophile and the most high-profile prisoner in America, died early in the morning in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Welfare State for the One Percent
In addition to claiming the lives of over 110,000 people, throwing the economy into ruin, and putting more than 30 million people out of work, the pandemic has inconvenienced the rich. Forced to...
View ArticleTrump Is Losing His Hold on the Senior Vote
If you had any doubt that America is a gerontocracy, consider that we’ve been talking for three days now about the president’s uncertain gait as he descended a ramp at West Point on Saturday. On the...
View ArticleAbolish These Police Departments
As the Minneapolis City Council took its first steps toward dismantling its police department, and national commentators debated what it would mean to “defund the police,” I thought of two stories I...
View ArticleThe Police Can’t Shake Their Persecution Complex
By now, you may be familiar with the Fake Shake Shack Attack: Three NYPD officers fell sick after drinking milkshakes from Shake Shack, leading two different police unions to accuse the restaurant of...
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Florida Man Leads His State to the Morgue
To get a sense of Florida’s priorities amid a viral pandemic, economic ruin, and a campaign for black lives, just look to the letter I received from state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis on...
View ArticleAt-Will Employment Is the Real Cancel Culture
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled by a 6–3 vote that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and trans people from being fired on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity. The...
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