The Coronavirus Is Blowing Up Our Best Response to the Opioid Crisis
On Mondays, Dr. Kimberly Sue would see patients at a syringe service program on the Lower East Side in New York, prescribing medications like buprenorphine that treat opioid addiction. Other days, she...
View ArticleThe Problem of the Not-Quite-One Percent
“We aren’t wealthy people with a very big Hamptons home, but it’s beautiful to us,” the owner of a rather large house in Southampton recently told The New York Times in an article on Manhattan...
View ArticleCongress Has the “Dumbest Idea Ever” for the Unemployed
Senate Republicans want to ditch the $600 weekly add-on to state unemployment benefits that they ratified in March to support laid-off workers through the Covid crisis. In its place, they’ve proposed a...
View ArticleStop Fretting About Biden’s VP Choice
We are entering the silly season of vice presidential speculation, filled with ill-sourced rumors and Talmudic interpretations of what Joe Biden means every time he says that his running mate must be...
View ArticleThe Worst Answer to Climate Anxiety: Wellness
The coronavirus turned the world inside out. Essential workers continued to report to duty, often at great personal risk. The rest of the United States was stuck indoors, with only the internet to...
View ArticleMonopoly is Tyranny
The economy as we know it is populated by gigantic corporations, behemoths that have bought up not only their competition but also the businesses supplying or otherwise supporting them. Such monopolies...
View ArticleIvanka Trump’s Empty Spectacle on Violence Against Native Women
The picture tells a nice story: Ivanka Trump—smiling with a big golden key in hand—stands alongside assistant secretary for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney, Lower Sioux Indian Community Vice...
View ArticleCovid-19 and the Limits of American Moral Reasoning
No one loses a war like the United States. Yet we start them all the time. In fact, if you pause to listen to our language—from “battleground” states in election years to “culture wars” every other...
View ArticleCharlie Kaufman’s Defense of Film
B, the narrator of Charlie Kaufman’s novel Antkind, is B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, a bald, middle-aged film critic with bottle-top glasses and a flowing Whitmanesque beard, who goes only by his lone...
View ArticleAll Police Can Be Secret Police
Painful images are still coming out of Portland—law enforcement wielding exterminator-like sprayers of tear gas, firing “less-lethal” munitions that have left protesters hospitalized with...
View ArticleBolivia’s Covid-19 Election Nightmare Is a Warning
Asked this past spring whether the November 3 presidential election might need to be rescheduled due to the coronavirus, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner replied, “I’m not sure I can commit one...
View ArticleThe 2020 Election Doesn’t Really Matter to Republicans
The new Republican coronavirus relief bill is abominable. From the earliest days of the pandemic, experts have insisted on closing America’s workplaces and offering workers and businesses financial...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is Terrified of Voters
Let’s be clear: President Donald Trump cannot lawfully delay the 2020 general election. He lacks the authority to make a unilateral change to the election date, which is set by Congress for the first...
View ArticlePanic in the White House as Staffers Discover There Is Some Sort of Pandemic...
There are many people in this country who are trapped in bad jobs, ranging from dangerous to exhausting to simply boring, by their financial realities. In the United States, being anything less than...
View ArticleLet’s Cancel the Presidential Debates Forever
No one, except perhaps the swampiest of DC hacks, is likely to mourn the loss of the Republican or Democratic conventions, both of which have been digitized and locked down due to America’s abysmal...
View ArticleThe Right’s Increasingly Unhinged Fight Against Black Lives Matter
In mid-July, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani took to his podcast, Common Sense, to warn listeners that Black Lives Matter would abolish “a government based on free enterprise” as well as...
View ArticleThe Future of Trust-Busting Is in Joe Biden’s Hands
Pigs are flying! Up is down! The public approves of how Congress handled something!After Wednesday’s much-anticipated hearing with the chief executive officers of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple,...
View ArticleCan Cities Do Reparations Alone?
Last week, Durham, North Carolina’s Racial Equity Task Force presented its plan, nearly two years in the making, to “understand the scope and depth of racial inequity in our city and figure out how to...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Lesson From the Pandemic: We Have to Stop Eating Meat
In November 2019, the United Nations Environmental Programme, or UNEP, called for global greenhouse gas emissions to decline by nearly 8 percent every year until 2030 if there is to be any chance of...
View ArticleThe End of Housing as We Know It
The nail salon in Queens where Mariwvey Ramirez works reopened earlier this month, but the customers have been hesitant to return. “I went back to work for three, four days now, and yesterday they tell...
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