New York’s Feckless, Scientifically Illiterate Response to the Covid Second...
In July, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled a poster to commemorate what New York had just suffered. It depicted a mountain in the shape of the state’s Covid-19 case count. “We went up the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Is in Charge Now
After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death in September, liberals spent seven weeks before the presidential election discussing the merits of Supreme Court reform. Should Democrats respond to Amy Coney...
View ArticleCan Book Publishers Afford to Publish Donald Trump?
When (if?) Donald Trump leaves office, he will be deeply in debt and starved of the bully pulpit that has made him an inescapable focus of attention. Ever since he lost the presidential election, many...
View ArticleWaiting for Diana
In 1981, in their first public appearance after their wedding, Prince Charles and Princess Diana visited Brecon, a small town in Wales with a population a little under 8,000. “It was very cold, but...
View ArticleMy Quest for a Job at the Trump White House
According to two sources familiar with the situation, as well as written communications … the White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) is still in the process of vetting candidates for job...
View ArticleA Coup Is a Coup
Depending on one’s outlook, this week has felt either unsettlingly ominous or unbearably silly. It began with Attorney General Bill Barr stopping by Capitol Hill to chat with Senate Majority Leader...
View ArticleRepublican Malice Has Turned the Pandemic Into a Deadly Loop
In a recent interview with Eater, San Francisco restaurant owner Pim Techamuanvivit articulated the bind she currently finds herself in: The pandemic has cratered her business at the same time that...
View ArticlePhiladelphia’s Election Results Are a Warning to the Democratic Party
Throughout this election cycle, pundits and Electoral College–watchers trained their gaze on Pennsylvania, singling it out as the state that would likely determine the winner of the presidency. And as...
View ArticleSamuel Alito Is Tired of Winning
An inescapable risk in writing about current events is that they have the tendency to swiftly overtake the last thing you wrote. On Thursday afternoon, I filed an article explaining why the Supreme...
View ArticleThe Brewing Democratic Fight Over Biden’s Cabinet
There was a moment this summer when Joe Biden’s promise to deliver an “FDR-sized” presidency was almost credible. Desperate to shore up his support from dejected Bernie voters and galvanized by...
View ArticleWhy Attack on Titan Is the Alt-Right’s Favorite Manga
Isayama Hajime worked nights at an internet café. He found the customers strange and often frightening. Many wandered around aimlessly, struggled to communicate, were drunk and belligerent. Inspired by...
View ArticleDon’t Blame the Left for the Democrats’ Losses
The fight over who and what’s to blame for Democratic underperformance down ballot in the 2020 election is proceeding, for the most part, as though the election never really happened. The arguments...
View ArticleCan Biden Keep His Promise to Make Farms Climate Friendly?
Last month, when asked on Pod Save America to name three or four things atop his first-term agenda, Joe Biden mentioned a surprising topic: farm policy. “I know it’s boring as hell, but it’s...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Obamacare Bait and Switch
Immediately after the conclusion of Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments concerning the bid of 18 red-state attorneys general, backed by the Trump administration, to strike the Affordable Care Act down in...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Is Dead. It’s the Trump Cult Now.
Donald Trump is the past, present, and future of the Republican Party. And that is because the GOP is no longer a traditional political party designed to win elections so that it can enact a policy...
View ArticleBlue States Will Have to Lead the Climate Fight Under Biden, Too
Donald Trump’s election was a near-apocalyptic moment for many in the climate movement. The 2016 election took place during the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, where advocates,...
View Article“This Is Not a Silver Bullet for the Pandemic”
Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their vaccine is more than 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, which was followed on Monday by Moderna declaring that its vaccine is 94.5 percent...
View ArticleCharles Koch Got the Free-Market Dystopia He Wanted. Now He’d Like Your...
Billionaire Charles Koch—who, alongside his late brother, is best known for funding a host of conservative and libertarian think tanks, donating lavishly to Republicans, and otherwise flooding the...
View ArticleKristi Noem’s War on Tribal Sovereignty Is Going to Get People Killed
South Dakota currently ranks second in the nation for Covid-19 cases, and first in hospitalizations. On Saturday, the state reported its highest daily death total of the year. Yet, as of writing,...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Versus the Coronavirus
Among the major issues that the Supreme Court could weigh in on over the next few months is the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly a quarter-million Americans since March and now rages...
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