Donald Trump’s Coded Message to White-Nationalist “Accelerationists”
Even as his campaign stumbles through these bleak late-summer months, beset by a nationwide health and economic crisis that’s largely of his own making, President Donald Trump is blowing full-bore on...
View ArticleA Government Too Broken to Write $600 Checks
As July ended, the Department of Commerce announced that the economy had contracted by nearly a third; the Department of Labor reported that 1.43 million Americans had lost their jobs. And shortly...
View ArticleIf Donald Trump Can’t Make History, He’ll Steal It Instead
Abraham Lincoln argued that what the Union had achieved at Gettysburg would resonate throughout American history and that no flesh-and-blood mortal had the power to diminish it. “In a larger sense, we...
View ArticleJared Kushner, Deputy Assistant Ratfucker
After donning a flak jacket and working vainly for nearly four years on Mideast peace, the opioid crisis, the federal bureaucracy, the criminal justice system, the second Great Depression, the novel...
View ArticleThe Inevitability of Defending Henry Kissinger
Barry Gewen introduces his study of Henry Kissinger, The Inevitability of Tragedy, with an anecdote that may be more telling than he intended. “A couple of years ago, I was having dinner with a...
View ArticleSelf-Interest, Wrongly Understood
Back in April, when New York City was the epicenter of the Covid-19 crisis, The New York Times’ Bret Stephens published a column entitled “New York Rules Can’t Apply to All.” The inset quote that...
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Fear of a Black Uprising
The summer of 2020 will be recorded as a once-in-a-generation uprising against police brutalization of Black people. The multiracial protests that erupted in all 50 states seemed to break the...
View ArticleFox News Is Leading the Attack on Kamala Harris
On Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson tried to channel Edward R. Murrow. Discussing Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Carlson flew into a rage after being...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos’s Plot to Enrich Private Schools Amid the Pandemic
How much more does the Trump administration value the children of elite private and religious schools than the children who attend public schools? We can answer the question with some hard numbers....
View ArticleAmerica Needs Its Own BBC to Restore Public Trust in the Press
Public trust in the media has reached an all-time low, according to a poll of over 20,000 people released last week by Gallup and the Knight Foundation. “Americans have not only lost confidence in the...
View Article“Fiasco” Stars the Real Heroes of Boston’s School Desegregation
The effect of Louise Day Hicks’s voice lay as much in its texture as her words. She was careful to keep her racism from spilling into the explicit, so when the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1965...
View ArticleThe Real Pandemic Gap Is Between the Comfortable and the Afflicted
The stories from the front lines of this country’s abandonment of the poor in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic are not in short supply. The Washington Post reports on the devastating stories of...
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The Secret History of Ronald Reagan’s Letters
Ronald Reagan began laying the groundwork for his 1980 presidential run almost immediately after his defeat in his campaign for the 1976 Republican nomination. The work consisted primarily of hundreds...
View ArticleCan Kamala Harris Earn the Trust of Indian Country?
On Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden officially announced California Senator Kamala Harris as his pick for vice president. Harris famously comes from a background in law enforcement...
View ArticleA Novel Way to Fund a Green Economy
The government has been pretty kind to fossil fuel companies these last few months. Recent disclosures from the Federal Reserve’s secondary bond-buying program show that it has now bought $17 billion...
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The Douglass Republic
As our country grapples with a deadly pandemic, responds to still more outbreaks of police brutality, and bears astonished witness to street after street filled with fed-up citizens calling for change,...
View ArticleSuspect Policy
It’s difficult to see Faten Abu Ali’s expression, since her white veil leaves only her eyes uncovered. But those eyes are red, and her voice quivers with fear. With good reason: Last week, the...
View ArticleClimate “Realism” Is the New Climate Denial
Going by headlines and poll results, climate change awareness has never been higher. While social media provides fertile ground for propaganda techniques, smear campaigns, fake experts, and conspiracy...
View ArticleSocialism Is as American as Apple Pie
One of the strengths of the Republican Party is its message discipline. When it finds an issue that works, it beats that issue to death, flogging it long after it stops working. Thus after the Civil...
View ArticleLessons From the Frontlines of Global Warming
Ronnie Scott lost his wife when she tried to to rescue their dog and cat from floodwaters in West Virginia in 2016. Carole Duncan almost lost her 83-year-old father during Australia’s massive 2019...
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