Will Joe Manchin Ruin Democrats’ Best Chance to Fight Climate Change?
There’s been a bit of common wisdom circling among green groups in Washington. If Biden gets elected and Democrats take back the Senate—both, granted, big ifs—then any climate legislation they might...
View ArticleTrump’s Scorched-Earth War Against Federal Employees
One advantage of a vague slogan like “drain the swamp” is that it can mean different things to different people. Does it mean ousting elected officials from their comfy seats in Washington, D.C., which...
View ArticleLesley Stahl Blew Her Chance to Eviscerate Trump
For days we’ve been hearing President Donald Trump fulminate about his “FAKE and BIASED interview” with Lesley Stahl of CBS News’s 60 Minutes. It was a “vicious attempted ‘takeout’” full of “bias,...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: The Trump Pivot
For more than four years—ever since it became clear that Donald Trump would actually be the Republican nominee for president—pundits have fixated on one question: Is Donald Trump about to pivot to...
View ArticleThe Working Class Goes Missing From Yet Another Debate
Earlier this month on the stump, Joe Biden tried some Bernie-style class war on for size. “If every investment banker in New York went on strike, nothing would much change in America,” he said at a...
View ArticleThe Righteous Anger of Joe Biden
American political debates began in 1858 with Abraham Lincoln taking on Stephen Douglas over the future of slavery. And 162 year later, in what will hopefully be the final debate of Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleHas the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse?
The Bear fire was one of the largest of the over 8,000 wildfires that have beset California this year. Now incorporated into the still-burning North Complex Fire, the Bear started in the Plumas...
View ArticleJoe Biden and the Return of the Dreaded Bipartisan Commission
Joe Biden finally has a court-packing answer—sort of. After dodging the question of what he would do about the Supreme Court, he told CBS’s Norah O’Donnell he would create a “bipartisan commission” to...
View ArticleThe Bernie Organizers Who Want to Elect Biden—Then Defeat Him
“I get it,” Mondaire Jones says into the camera, shaking his head. He is speaking on a Thursday night four weeks out from the election, to the virtual audience of a virtual rally hosted by Our...
View ArticleDon’t Reboot the 2016 Horror Show
More than 200,000 lives lost in the United States, and counting. The worst economic downturn of the century. Armed gunmen invading state legislative sessions. Journalists beaten by police officers....
View ArticleThe Justice Department’s Very Convenient Corporate Crackdown
Just two weeks before the election, the Justice Department rolled out a series of high-profile white-collar cases and settlements that include an antitrust complaint against Google, a settlement with...
View ArticleInstead of Reengineering Cows, Just Eat Less Meat
The United States has a meat problem. The average American will eat about 220 pounds of meat this year, including around 60 pounds of beef. The cattle needed to support that consumption require vast...
View ArticleThe Media’s Obsession With the Mythical Republican Swing Voter
In September, as the presidential campaign entered its final weeks, a woman named Danielle Pletka published an op-ed in The Washington Post entitled “I never considered voting for Trump in 2016. I may...
View ArticleHow to Steal an Election
We never left. There are the little signs. The fact that everyone on every social media platform seems to have the same gif of Bugs Bunny sawing away the peninsula at the ready. The fact that the...
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The Legend of Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper will be the next governor of North Carolina.That’s exactly the kind of declarative boast that would never come from the careful Cooper. Yet, as of the fourth week of October, the Democratic...
View ArticleDoctors Are Appalled by White House’s “Barbaric” New Coronavirus Strategy
There are two things to understand about the “herd immunity” strategy the White House has reportedly “embraced” in the past month. The first is that the term, which originally refers to the protection...
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The Future of the Democratic Party Is in Pennsylvania
The natural geography of Pennsylvania is not extraordinary. Its major cities are situated near rivers, and it has mountains and miles of punishing greenness. As a shape, Pennsylvania is a rectangle,...
View ArticleScott Pruitt Was Even More Selfish and Vengeful Than We Thought
When former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned in July of 2018 amid a flurry of ethics scandals, he had already weathered months of inquiries into inappropriate use of...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Familiar, Troubling Plan to Torpedo Biden’s Presidency
Like a phoenix, the deficit hawk will be back soon enough, as soon as it is politically convenient.—Glenn Kessler, Washington Post fact-checker, October 17, 2020My party is very interested in deficits...
View ArticleBob Murray Was Vicious to Both Workers and the Environment
Fossil fuel interests have long argued that environmental rules kill jobs. Not having such rules, though, kills people. And that’s particularly clear when it comes to the coal industry.Bob Murray, the...
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