Miranda July Takes on the Rigged System
Two closing parentheses, a “less than” sign, a “greater than” sign, then two opening parentheses: ))<>((. Anyone who has seen Miranda July’s 2005 feature debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know,...
View ArticleMcConnell Will Sacrifice Anything to Fill Ginsburg’s Seat—Even His Senate...
I promised myself that I wouldn’t make predictions in 2020. I would write about what I wanted to happen, or what I feared could happen, but I would not play the game of definitively saying what would...
View ArticleImmigrant Street Vendors Are Feeding Others to Feed Themselves During the...
On an evening in late September at Corona Plaza, an open-air commercial hub in Queens, the bachata blaring from a Boost Mobile competes with the noise of trains clattering overhead; kids on scooters...
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The Case for Calling Climate Change “Genocide”
Alberta holds one of the world’s most ravaged regions. In the north of the Canadian province, a vast sprawl of industry the size of Florida has been erected to haul tar sands from beneath the forests,...
View ArticleCorporate America Is Irrationally Enthusiastic About Carbon Capture
Between 2010 and 2018, the Department of Energy poured $5 billion worth of research and development funding into carbon-capturing technologies, which aim to extract the greenhouse gas from power plants...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Feminists of the Backlash Decade
We don’t tend to think of the 1990s as a high point for feminism. It was the decade of Jesse Helms and Jerry Falwell, of Operation Rescue and Focus on the Family, of super-skinny supermodels and highly...
View ArticleSome Rich People Are Hilariously Freaked Out About a Biden Presidency
“They think this is going to hell in a hand basket,” one financial adviser told Marketwatch this week, describing his conservative clients’ growing sense of impending doom. In an interview on Wednesday...
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The World Is Finally Ready for Beverly Glenn-Copeland
The composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland weaves his way toward the stage, so slight and unassuming that he is barely noticed by the hipsters thronging the bar. Dressed in a uniform of pressed chinos, neat...
View ArticleWeaken the Presidency—Even If Biden Wins
In earlier chapters of American history, bad presidents eventually led to good government. Andrew Johnson’s stupendous failures after the Civil War spurred Radical Republicans to take command of...
View ArticleThe Democrats Have a Dianne Feinstein Problem
As the first tantalizing tastes of autumn reach swampy Washington, Democrats in Congress are likely finding it hard to enjoy the cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes: Their next few months are going...
View ArticleUber and Lyft Are Charging Through Washington’s Revolving Door
On Labor Day, Uber released its first “climate assessment” report, admitting that the average trip taken on its service is 41 percent more carbon-intensive than a typical car ride. Two days later, Lyft...
View ArticleHow to Make Progressivism Mean Something Again
In his book The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, legal scholar and public policy analyst Ganesh Sitaraman writes the following: “When it is used today, ‘progressive’ is not usually thought of...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Realism of The Comey Rule
Many of us like our fiction to be realistic, with plausible scenarios and nuanced, recognizably human protagonists—and meanwhile we like our nonfiction to be outlandish, full of absurd plot twists and...
View ArticleSenate Republicans Have No Intention of Stopping Trump From Stealing the...
Thursday was the kind of day that many Beltway reporters have spent four years dreaming about: Democrats and Republicans came together to tell Donald Trump that he had gone too far. The bipartisan...
View ArticleWhy the Squad Voted Against Pelosi’s Energy Bill
If you’re like most people, you probably missed the news Thursday evening that the House had passed H.R. 4447, the Clean Energy Jobs and Innovation Act. The nearly 900-page piece of legislation itself...
View ArticleGiving People Money in a Pandemic Worked. Now Give Them More.
At first glance, there was something slightly counterintuitive in the Federal Reserve Board’s most recent report on the economic well-being of American households. In July—at the height of the pandemic...
View ArticleCan the Census Be Saved in Indian Country?
On Thursday evening, United States District Judge Lucy Koh issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Census Bureau to continue its fieldwork through October 31. It was a dramatic turn in what has...
View ArticleThe Suitors Demand an Audience
Tell them to keep their eyes, their brawn, the tentacles of their need sticking to my skin. Their bluff and bluster. Poisoned tongues saying thirst as spell, hips as prophecy. I’m loomed together,...
View ArticleMorning
Under a canopy skya man settles down a plastic apron on.As the train slips away evenly, a ghost is left back on the tracks, I open the window, glance into the courtyard, at the statue of Kirov. The...
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