How I Found My Voice as the Only Native Student in My Class
I’m a senior this year at a high school in Wake County, which is the largest public school district in North Carolina. I’m also a member of the Lumbee Tribe. And this year, the Wake County Board of...
View ArticleNo One’s Hands Are Clean at the Justice Department
Last week—as we close in on an election that will hopefully make Donald J. Trump a single-term president—we learned new information about one of the most dismal chapters of this period from a New York...
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Making the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy
The death of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has sent the already fraught politics of Supreme Court confirmation into crisis. But the panic that followed the news of Ginsburg’s death, given...
View ArticleThe Town That Went Feral
In its public education campaigns, the U.S. National Park Service stresses an important distinction: If you find yourself being attacked by a brown or grizzly bear, YES, DO PLAY DEAD. Spread your arms...
View ArticleThe Obscenity of Amazon Prime Day in a Pandemic
This year, in the lead-up to Amazon Prime Day, Forbes reported that Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott, had respectively gotten $8.8 billion and $3 billion richer over the course of a week,...
View ArticleMitch McConnell’s Election Dreams Are Voters’ Waking Nightmares
American democracy has never been in a particularly healthy place, so it did not come as much of a surprise when, as early voting for the 2020 election kicked off this week, disastrous accounts began...
View ArticleThis Supreme Court Was Designed to Kill Climate Policies
Amy Coney Barrett, if her confirmation process goes as Republicans hope, could still be serving on the Supreme Court in 2050. By then, the United Nations estimates that anywhere between 25 million and...
View ArticleMy Life as an Anti-Fascist Catfisher
The following is adapted from Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin.It’s nearly 3 a.m. in Ukraine, but my interlocutor hasn’t gone to sleep yet. His name is...
View ArticleAmy Coney Barrett and the Death of the Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee had its real first opportunity to closely question Amy Coney Barrett in person during Tuesday’s confirmation hearing. Expectations were hardly high. Over the past few...
View ArticleAmy Coney Barrett’s Gentle Deceptions
Still some hours before Amy Coney Barrett would speak before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Marsha Blackburn used her opening statement to wonder aloud: Why hadn’t more of her colleagues...
View ArticleThe Case Against Packing the Court
One Saturday evening in late December 1936, Homer Cummings, the attorney general, arrived at the White House bearing memos and briefing books and, over the next hour, proceeded to convince Franklin...
View ArticleAmerica’s Next Top Town Halls Are No Way to Pick a President
One of the few lessons that could be drawn from the first debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, which occurred approximately 60 years ago, was that the traditional head-to-head format...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justices Are Politicians, Too
If you have been watching Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings for insight into how the nation’s highest court will interpret the law once she sits on the bench, you should shut them...
View ArticleHunter Biden and the Hunt for a New “Hillary’s Emails”
With less than three weeks to go until the election, The New York Post published what it apparently thought would be a bombshell report. The tabloid newspaper claims it obtained a cache of emails by...
View ArticleWhat Did Carlos Lozada Learn From Reading 150 Trump Books?
Over the past four years, there have been dozens of books published about Donald Trump. Some have recorded his numerous failures and general incompetence, others his Churchillian magnificence and...
View ArticleJeff Bezos and the Golden Age of Climate Hypocrisy
Of course Jeff Bezos is giving money to Republicans. On Tuesday, during Amazon’s annual sale event known as Prime Day, E&E News reported that the same month that Amazon announced a Climate Pledge...
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Inside the Republican Plot for Permanent Minority Rule
Here’s one all-too-plausible way that Election Night 2020 might play out. It’s just after 11 p.m., when Fox News cuts live to President Trump’s reelection party. Millions of mail-in ballots remain to...
View ArticleThe Mysteries of Emily in Paris
The ruinous effect contracting Covid-19 has had on my short-term memory is, happily, not a problem when it comes to remembering the key plot points of Netflix’s soapy, flimsy sitcom Emily in Paris,...
View ArticleThe Devastatingly Low Bar of “Official” Poverty
We now have new numbers to confirm what everyone who received a $1,200 stimulus check or extra unemployment benefits over the summer likely already knows: Additional government money is a good thing...
View ArticleNBC Did Joe Biden a Big Favor
Before Thursday evening’s dueling town halls began, the conventional wisdom was that, once again, Donald Trump, the greatest showman, had hoodwinked the news media. The second presidential debate had...
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