“Bipartisanship” Is Climate Poison
Democrats are about to enjoy the most power they’ve had in years. A president has just been elected with a huge popular mandate. The House and Senate are both under Democratic control. The country is...
View ArticleThe Violent Crescendo of the MAGA Conspiracies
“For one day, on January 6th, you, Vice President Pence, will be the most powerful man on earth…On that day, you and you alone will have the power to set not just America, but all of humanity free—or...
View ArticleThis Isn’t an Insurrection. It’s an Alliance.
President Trump solicited the march to the Capitol. He would be with them, he said. Instead he abandoned his cult within minutes: The presidential motorcade arrived at the White House just as his...
View ArticleBanish Trump and His Co-Conspirators—Forever
America’s two-hundred-year streak of peacefully transferring power came to an end on Wednesday after President Donald Trump incited thousands of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, where...
View ArticleA Sickening Day in American History
A dazed feeling, somewhere between nausea and numbness, washed over me Wednesday afternoon. It conjured up the way I felt after the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968. And it...
View ArticleThis Is the Conservative Tradition
Edmund Fawcett has remarkable timing. His book Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition appeared two weeks before the U.S. election and a few weeks before a Brexit deadline. With Donald Trump’s refusal...
View ArticleA Very American Coup
There was a brief moment on Wednesday—before hundreds of MAGA goons stormed the Capitol and chased out lawmakers certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, before cable networks and social...
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A War Photographer Embeds With the Capitol Hill Mob
For more than three decades, photojournalist Ron Haviv has covered wars and unrest across five continents. One of his first international assignments was covering the 1989 coup attempt in Panama.* So...
View ArticleThe Capitol Riot Is a Cybersecurity Nightmare
The violent storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday by Donald Trump supporters, who were egged on by the president’s false claims that the election was fraudulent, was a bizarre and macabre event...
View ArticleElites Have Extracted What They Needed From Trump. Now They Can Discard Him.
The president incited a break-in at the Capitol; then Mick Mulvaney resigned as special envoy to Northern Ireland. Elaine Chao is reportedly stepping down as secretary of transportation. White House...
View ArticleThe Actual Death Toll From the Pro-Trump Riot Won’t Be Known for Weeks
The pro-Trump mob pushed through barricades and climbed walls, smashed windows and carried away mementos of their invasion. They jostled through the halls of the U.S. Capitol, pressed together shoulder...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of the Pandemic Office
The worst manager I ever had could slip frictionlessly between enthusiasm and furor, high fives and reprimands. He liked to stalk through the restaurant where we worked, his shiny shoes and shiny hair...
View ArticleExxon Mobil Is Twisting Itself in Knots to Justify Pumping Even More Oil
Seemingly a month ago, on Tuesday, Exxon Mobil released its annual Energy & Carbon Summary. For the first time, the company reported its Scope 3 emissions. Those are emissions generated across the...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Finally Unafraid to Be the Party of Free Money
For decades, Democrats have tried to downplay any desire to simply give people cash benefits, seemingly fearful of being seen as doling out freebies to the lazy and undeserving—“welfare queens,” in the...
View ArticleThe Case Against the $2,000 Checks
Now that the Democrats have won control of the Senate, with a 50–50 split and a tie-breaking vote for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, they should forget about those $2,000 stimulus checks and...
View ArticleAmerica’s Obsession With “Peaceful” Transitions Crashes Into Reality
As pageants go, presidential inaugurations are tame affairs. I went to one—Bill Clinton’s first, when I was 12—and don’t remember a thing about it. The parades are dull, the balls forgettable, the...
View ArticleThe Conservative Media Really Wants You to Think the Capitol Riot Is the...
Speaking on Fox News hours after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, a somber Tucker Carlson had a message for his audience: What happened was tragic, but it was also understandable—maybe even...
View ArticleThe $2,000 Checks and Our Failing Vaccine Rollout Have Something in Common
Even the prospect of the government cutting Americans no-strings-attached $2,000 checks seemed, as 2020 ended, to send certain moderates and liberals into a state of mild panic, as they imagined the...
View ArticleNext Week Might Be Too Late to Impeach Trump
It’s been almost three days since President Donald Trump incited a mob to attack Capitol Hill. So far, Facebook and Twitter have responded more forcefully to the attack on Congress than Congress has in...
View ArticleThe Capitol Riot Is Inspiring Far-Right Groups Around the World
Watching armed neo-Nazis and other extremists violently storm the Capitol building on Wednesday, my first thoughts weren’t of reaction in Washington D.C. Instead, I wondered who was watching in...
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