“This Is a Paradise, but a Temporary One”
Hurricane Dorian slammed into Grand Bahama island on September 1, 2019. The storm’s 200 mph winds and torrential rains stalled over the island for more than 40 hours as water levels rose 18 to 23 feet...
View ArticleA Constitutional Weapon for Biden to Vanquish Trump’s Army of Judges
We are now less than 90 days away from an election that President Donald Trump is openly attempting to steal. From that vantage, it may seem premature—bordering on presumptuous—for Democrats to start...
View ArticleAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right to Warn of “Fascism in the United States”
On Tuesday, after television coverage of the Democratic National Convention drew to a close, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expanded on her 97-second recorded convention message by taking to Instagram....
View ArticleThe Stories Kamala Harris Won’t Tell Anymore
The third night of the Democratic National Convention was memorably described by one late-night C-SPAN caller from California as “spooky … like a drive-in with no cars.” Still, the producers were doing...
View ArticleThe Puzzlingly Substanceless Democratic Convention
Barack Obama has not always been the soaring convention orator of legend.His acceptance speech at the 2012 Democratic Convention was flat and themeless. In fact, it was Bill Clinton who saved that...
View ArticleThe Israel-U.A.E. Deal Puts the “Forever” in “Forever War”
It is by now almost a formality: In the Middle East, nothing either good or bad can transpire without Washington pointing to Tehran’s alleged hegemonic designs as the force behind it. So it was with...
View ArticleThe Republican National Convention’s Carnival of White Grievance
The Republican National Convention’s speaker lineup is the sign of a party that knows itself well: First there’s Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood clinic director who had a very lucrative...
View ArticleJoe Biden Has Found His Big Idea
Not that long ago, Democrats spoke of ideas. The 2020 presidential primary was rooted in policy: universal health care, the Green New Deal, immigration reform. It also bravely faced what it meant to be...
View ArticleThe Biden Era Will Put the New Left to the Test
All eyes this week have been focused on the Democratic National Convention, which should probably be considered the formal kickoff of this year’s general election campaign. Although the coronavirus...
View ArticleThe Conservative Misdirection of the Affirmative Action Debate
Last week, concluding a two-year investigation into the university’s admissions process, the Justice Department accused Yale of discriminating against white and Asian American applicants in order to...
View ArticleTrump’s Cloud of Gossip Has Poisoned America
“So, I just heard that,” the President of the United States said at a White House press conference last Thursday. The conference, like the rest of Trump’s regular press briefings, was ostensibly about...
View ArticleBiden’s Setting Himself Up to Get Blamed for Lost Blue-Collar Jobs
The Democratic Party sure knows how to piss off climate advocates. Tuesday, party leaders cut a promise to end fossil fuel subsidies from their 2020 platform, telling The Huffington Post that the...
View ArticleJoe Biden Finds His Voice
Throughout his entire political career, stretching from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, Joe Biden has been searching for his voice and for words that were authentically his own.Thursday night, flanked...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform Is Being Slashed Into Oblivion
If one issue dominated the Democratic presidential primaries this cycle, it was health care. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All proposal set a standard that other candidates vied to match while...
View ArticleBan Yachts
It’s been a big week for yacht news. Yesterday, white supremacist shirt-layering aficionado Steve Bannon was arrested on a $28 million, 150-foot yacht in Connecticut for defrauding donors to his Build...
View ArticleWhen the Republican Party Was Sane
After five losses in a row, Republicans were desperate to regain the White House following the 1948 election, when Harry Truman surged in the polls at the eleventh hour to defeat GOP standard bearer...
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How to Break a Big Pharma Monopoly on a Covid-19 Vaccine
In mid-July, the U.S. media lit up with a big story about the global race for a Covid-19 vaccine. State-backed Russian hackers, it was alleged, were poking around the vaccine trade secrets of U.S.,...
View ArticleTrump’s Incredible Ignorance of Suburbia
It says a lot about President Trump’s misunderstanding of the suburbs that the Republican National Committee has designated Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the Midwestern couple who two months ago pointed...
View ArticleRepublican Voters Embrace Trump’s Cult of Destruction
There is a certain kind of sputtering disbelief that characterizes a lot of liberal reactions to Trump, for good reason. Even after four years of this routine, it can still seem unbelievable to watch...
View ArticleWhen “Police Reform” Came to Kenosha, Wisconsin
Six years before Jacob Blake was shot and critically injured by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the city made national headlines for a case that became the impetus for groundbreaking reforms concerning...
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