Trump Never Answered the Debate’s Most Important Question
Joe Biden’s best answer during Tuesday’s debate was for a question that shouldn’t have to be posed. “How confident should we be that this will be a fair election, and what are you prepared to do over...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky Does Not Think the Planet Is Doomed (Yet)
This summer saw some of the worst wildfires in recorded history. Over 3.7 million acres of land burned in California alone, leading a UCLA climate scientist to declare, “We’ve broken almost every...
View ArticleAmerica’s Conspiracies of Profit
Over the summer, homegrown American conspiracism surged in tandem with the pandemic. On edge after months of lockdown, widespread infection and death, and a highly acrid political climate, people...
View ArticleWhen Your Covid Symptoms Outlast Your Insurance
María had only been in the United States for about a year when the pandemic hit. She had entered the country without documentation and settled in Brooklyn, finding some work under the table preparing...
View ArticleHow Was Rukmini Callimachi Fooled by a Fake Terrorist?
According to Rukmini Callimachi, the extremism correspondent for The New York Times who has earned wide praise for her work reporting on ISIS, her moment of journalistic epiphany came in 2013, in a...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as Ethical Grocery Shopping
Of all the edible creatures in the sea, America’s favorite is the shrimp. We gorge upon their flesh to the tune of 4.4 pounds per person per year. Accordingly, the business of shrimp is oceanic: In...
View ArticleThe Real Legacy of a Demagogue
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a Spanish Civil War veteran from Florida named John Hovan enlisted in the Navy, serving for three and a half years before he received an honorable discharge. After...
View ArticleThe Anti-Filibuster Armies Are Mounting Up
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has, unsurprisingly, intensified conversations in Democratic circles about the structural obstacles that a Biden presidency would inevitably face. Whether or...
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The Real Deep State Is Trump
The specter of deep state conspiracies against President Trump has long been a key rhetorical and political weapon in the arsenal of the Trump White House. Trump and his loyal enablers have deployed...
View ArticleDemocrats Have a Chance to Hit Trump on Jobs
According to Friday’s official jobs report—the last one that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release before November’s election—the economy added around 661,000 jobs in September. Since...
View ArticleOf Course Donald Trump Got Covid-19
Two days ago, standing on the debate stage with Joe Biden, President Trump repeatedly downplayed the severity of Covid-19. He blew past the fact that more than 200,000 Americans have died from the...
View ArticleThe President and His Country Club Pals Still Have the Best Defense Against...
Just a few days ago, Trump flashily procured a mask from his jacket pocket during his debate with Biden to indicate his openness to wearing one. “I put a mask on when I think I need it,” he said...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have to Pray for Trump
Late Thursday evening, President Trump (or possibly NBA reporter Shams Charania) broke the news that both he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus.The ramifications...
View ArticleTrump’s History of Deception Magnifies the Chaos of His Covid-19 Diagnosis
Here’s what we know so far: President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday. He’s experiencing “mild” symptoms, according to the White House, though these were apparently...
View ArticleTrump’s “Greatest Recovery in History” Is Wheezing Out
The president was in denial, and now his sunny assessment of the situation is disproven.No, I’m not talking about the news that President Donald Trump and the first lady tested positive for Covid-19...
View ArticleBiden Should Be Worried
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered a typically over-the-top boast during his debate against Joe Biden: “I’m the one that brought back football.” He must have been yearning for a return...
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How Wisconsin Became a Bastion of White Supremacy
On the night of October 23, 2004, Milwaukee police officer Andrew Spengler hosted a housewarming party. Katie Brown and Kirsten Antonissen brought two friends of their own: Frank Jude Jr., who is...
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How a Radical Black Tradition Could Buoy Biden in Michigan
In an expansive lot in northwest Detroit, at the corner of 6 Mile and San Juan, roughly 100 people gathered on a Sunday afternoon in August for a pair of events. The first was an “All Black Lives...
View ArticlePopulism Is the Key to Climate Action
Forty-nine percent of West Virginians are “worried” about global warming, and 64 percent think citizens should be doing more to address it. That’s in the state that’s least worried about climate...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Protect Immigrants From the Whims of Politics
Unlike criminal or civil courts, our nation’s immigration courts are housed under the Department of Justice. And so the decisions and operations of these courts are subject to the whims of politics....
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