Medicare for All Needs a Sunrise Movement
In mid-December, a loose coalition of leftist YouTube pundits hit the gas on an ill-fated gambit to boost Medicare for All under the digital banner #ForcetheVote. Led by pugnacious commentator Jimmy...
View ArticleThe Response to the Capitol Riot Is Whitewashing the History of Black...
In 1811, between 200 and 500 enslaved Black people armed themselves in a revolt that began on a sugar plantation a few miles outside of New Orleans. Charles Deslondes, a slave driver of Haitian...
View ArticleRashida Jones’s Battle With Sex Workers Reveals a New Era of Internet...
At the beginning of this year, news circulated that Rashida Jones, Meryl Streep, and Laverne Cox had all signed on to produce a “documentary adaptation” of Sell/Buy/Date, a one-woman play about the sex...
View ArticleMurder the Filibuster and Never Look Back
As the authorities worked to clear the Capitol of rioters last week, the Associated Press called Georgia’s remaining Senate runoff race for Jon Ossoff, confirming that Democrats would be entering the...
View ArticleMy Life Sewing T-Shirts for 26 Cents an Hour
At 5 a.m., I’m awoken by the bell and roll over to turn on my light so the corrections officer can see that I’m alive. After the C.O. finishes the morning count, I start getting ready for work. My cell...
View ArticleThe Ideological Emptiness of “PlayBook”
Ben Shapiro almost certainly got what he wanted out of a stint guest-hosting Politico’s flagship “Playbook” newsletter last Thursday. His turn at the helm—he followed Chris Hayes, Ken Burns, Yamiche...
View ArticleThe Presidency Is a Bad Job
I wanted to be president when I was younger, but grew out of it before middle school. Some people never do. If all goes according to plan, we will have a new president come Wednesday afternoon. The...
View ArticleThe Military Occupation of D.C. Is a National Disgrace
Four years after Donald Trump’s sparsely attended inauguration, Joe Biden is likely to be sworn in before a crowd of, well, almost no one. Some past presidents will attend—though not Trump—and a few...
View ArticleHow to Vaccinate a Country Amid Trump’s Wreckage
In retrospect, probably the last thing America’s bungled Covid-19 vaccine rollout needed was for the Trump administration to spend its final week in power promising the states extra vaccines that...
View ArticleFarewell to Trump’s Baby Sociopaths
Today we say goodbye and good riddance to Donald J. Trump, the worst, laziest, and most tangerine-hued of our 45 presidents. He left a path of destruction in his wake that included 400,000 dead...
View ArticleAccountability Is the Cure for an Ailing Democracy
In the early 2000s, Peruvians faced a difficult choice. Their outgoing president, Alberto Fujimori, had been democratically elected as a populist only to preside over a regime of corruption,...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Dumb “1776 Project” Is a Perfect End to His Presidency
On Monday, two days before Donald Trump was set to exit the presidency, the White House released the names of 244 individuals who would be honored for their contributions to American society in a...
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This Is Us: Why the Trump Era Ended in Violence
The Trump era begins and ends with stories of capitol buildings and Confederate flags. On July 10, 2015, the emblem was taken down once and for all from its former proud perch over the statehouse in...
View ArticleThe Hard Truth About Joe Biden
In January 1973, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., a 30-year-old county councilman who won an upset election by just over 3,000 votes, was sworn in as one of the youngest senators in the nation’s history....
View ArticleCancel All the Pipelines
Some good news can’t wait. On Sunday, the CBC reported that canceling federally issued permits for the Keystone XL pipeline will be part of President-elect Joe Biden’s Day One agenda. In theory, the...
View ArticleTrump’s Final Act of Extraordinary Corruption
Donald Trump’s presidency died on Wednesday as it lived: in a last-minute torrent of corruption. His final batch of pardons doled out mercy to a motley crew of personal and political allies, rap...
View ArticleWe Mock QAnon at Our Own Risk
They called it the “Great Awakening.”Inauguration Day was supposed to be a climactic moment for believers of QAnon, the conspiracy theory that claims Donald Trump is leading a clandestine campaign...
View ArticleThe Uncertain Promise of Biden’s Presidency
Joe Biden’s inaugural address was studded with words and sentences that were hard to imagine any other president expressing at any other time. A white president, elected with an outpouring of Black...
View ArticleWhy Donald Trump Is Already Teasing a 2024 Campaign
Donald Trump’s final speech, at a kind of half-hearted miniature rally, ended on a fitting note. “Have a good life,” a dejected and petulant Trump said. “See you soon.” Then the Village People’s...
View ArticleWill Biden’s China Hawks Destroy His Climate Ambitions?
On Tuesday, an otherwise fairly boring confirmation hearing heralded a remarkable victory for climate policy. In response to several questions about climate, 74-year-old former Federal Reserve Chair...
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