Conservative Media Is Really Struggling With the Possibility That Trump...
How did Herman Cain die? Tweets commemorating the former presidential candidate and pizza magnate, including from President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, didn’t...
View ArticleThe Dismal Politics of the Sports World’s “Wokest” League
The Bubble—the sealed-off campus at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, where the National Basketball Association has resumed its pandemic-interrupted season—is pervaded by an uneasy calm. No one there...
View ArticleWhat Joe Biden Wants
After a weekend of oppo dumps and Twitter battles over the leading vice presidential possibilities, Joe Biden could well want to throw up his hands and tell someone else to choose his running mate.It’s...
View ArticleThe Occult, Terrorizing Politics of QAnon
This July, as police in Portland, Oregon, met protesters with grenades, pepper-ball rounds, and tear gas, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo detailing the alleged...
View ArticleRemote Work Won’t Save Us
A hallway room in the back of my childhood home contained the sewing machine and, beginning in the mid-1990s, a succession of computers. The first computer wasn’t even a computer; it was a monochrome...
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Inside the Project Veritas Plan to Steal the Election
James O’Keefe had big plans for 2020. The founder of Project Veritas, the conspiratorial right-wing group that specializes in Fox News–friendly “stings” intended to expose supposed liberal bias and...
View ArticleThe Cyclical Psychology of White Supremacy
The killing began just after noon. On July 30, 1866, a parade of 300 Black townsfolk (with some white advocates) marched toward the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans to demand their rights: Two years...
View ArticleHow to Save Congress From Itself
The Republican-led Senate flew home without passing a bill to renew or extend its stimulus measure, raising the prospect that millions of Americans will face more economic hardship in the weeks and...
View ArticleDonald Trump Truly Is the Heir to the Legacy of Andrew Jackson
Early in his presidency, when he was still pretending to be a serious person, Donald Trump traveled to the birthplace of Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, to extol his virtues. Trump praised...
View ArticleThe Never Trumpers Have Already Won
What causes people to draw ethical lines and purport to stand on principle? In February 2016, as it became clearer and clearer that Donald Trump was on track to win the nomination of the Republican...
View ArticleThe College Athletes Who Refuse to Die for the NCAA
The hits keep coming for Major League Baseball. On Monday, just one week after an outbreak of the coronavirus derailed games for the Miami Marlins and Philadelphia Phillies, the St. Louis Cardinals...
View ArticleThe Tide Is Turning Against the Filibuster
At Thursday’s funeral for Georgia Representative John Lewis, former President Barack Obama delivered a eulogy that’s made political waves and might very well shape a Biden presidency. The best way to...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Creepy Reopening Industry
In New York City, “non-essential” offices were allowed to open again in June at limited capacity as cases spiked in other parts of the country. While the once frenetic business center of Midtown still...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt Has Always Been a Hack
Over the last four years, the conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt has gone to extraordinary lengths to pretend that Donald Trump does not exist. Hewitt does acknowledge the existence of some version of...
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Beyond Big Meat
The hogs screech as the barn fills with steam. Thousands jostle and shriek. It takes hours, but eventually they quiet and then collapse. By morning, their bodies cover the floor. Survivors snort and...
View ArticleThe New Aristocracy Discovers “Microschools”
This week’s Twitter villain hails, like many of his kind, from the Bay Area. Jason Calacanis is a podcaster and talking head on the subject of investment (he leads The Syndicate, “a group of 4,122...
View ArticleTikTok and America’s Bleak Techno-Nationalism
Whatever passes for industrial policy in the United States seems to revolve around the petulant whims of President Donald Trump. Whether a company will be rewarded with government contracts, castigated...
View ArticleThe Washington Media Is Starting to Treat Trump Like a Clown
The most jarring thing about Donald Trump is that he is president. Nearly every press conference, public event, and interview is awash with contradictions. On the one hand, there is the man in the...
View ArticleThe Anti-Election Party
The nightmare scenario for liberals across America—what if a defeated Donald Trump refuses to leave office?—reared its head last week when the president floated the idea of delaying the election. “With...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Benefit Seems So Great Because Actual Wages Are Insanely Low
At the end of last week, the $600 federal unemployment insurance supplement expired after a congressional deadlock on passing a new stimulus bill, leaving millions of laid-off workers without income...
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