What Will Life in America Be Like in 2022?
It’s September 2022, nearly three years after a mysterious virus began sweeping through China. In the United States, kids of all ages, newly vaccinated against Covid-19, are back in school, and their...
View ArticleHave Democrats Learned Their Lesson?
There is a rapidly consolidating consensus among the liberal commentariat that Democrats have learned from mistakes made during the Obama years and updated their thinking to adapt to new political...
View ArticleSaving the Nation Cannot End With Biden’s Covid Relief Bill
In his first primetime address to the nation Thursday night, President Joe Biden will likely spend at least a little time touting the provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act, the $1.9 trillion...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Confident, Unconventional Politics
Even before he was elected to the Senate at age 29, Joe Biden always believed that he could make the sale—that he could close the deal about anything. There is a relentlessness at Biden’s core, an...
View ArticleThe Struggle to Define Life
In 1813, the East India Company’s James Forbes published an explosive story about monkeys. While traveling in India, he had stayed beneath an enormous banyan tree near the Narmada River. One day, a...
View ArticleThe Conservative Politics of Victimhood
Over the past year, Meghan McCain has made a number of statements from her mainstream pundit perch on ABC’s The View that, if you didn’t know better, might suggest that she is a liberal. The daughter...
View ArticleAn Honest History of Texas Begins and Ends With White Supremacy
The past few months have been rough for Texas—and for the Texas Republican Party in particular. Republicans in the state led the charge to overturn the 2020 election results, centering their...
View ArticleThe Amazon Rain Forest Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought
In July 2019, about 30 scientists from around the world gathered in Manaus, Brazil. Their goal was to map out all of the ways the Amazon absorbs and releases greenhouse gases. In a new study published...
View ArticleMarco Rubio’s Lazy, Bad-Faith Effort to Weaponize Amazon Workers
Amazon has become so obviously villainous that even Republican politicians like Florida Senator Marco Rubio are now supporting the worker unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama. Or at least, that’s...
View ArticleMarco Rubio Is No More Pro-Labor Than He Is Pro-Climate
Eager to stake out some claim to his party’s post-Trump identity, Senator Marco Rubio on Friday took to the op-ed section of USA Today to argue that unions might be good sometimes if they help workers...
View ArticleThe Walls Are Closing in on Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo is hanging by a thread. He may hold onto his job for another day or another week, or even longer. But he is well past the political point of no return. Given what needs to be done just in...
View ArticleThe Infernal Challenge of Ending “Kids In Cages”
While the Trump presidency is over and the former president, by dint of being denied his preferred social media perches, is no longer toxifying the scene with his rhetoric, the poison he left behind is...
View ArticleThe Covid Relief Bill Also Raises Taxes on the Rich
Everybody knows that top corporate executives get paid much more than they’re worth—and that ever-rising income inequality is the result. It’s tempting to conclude that the federal government has never...
View ArticleMost of the World Has a Simple Vaccine Request. America Isn’t Listening.
On Thursday night, President Joe Biden announced in his televised address that he was directing states to make all adults eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine by the start of May. The cheery...
View ArticleFlorida’s Poop Problem Is Killing Manatees
Dead manatees, climate change, poop water: In the past few months, it’s become clear that Florida’s multiyear reckoning with intersecting environmental crises is coming to a head. The quality of the...
View ArticleHow America Segregates Drug Use
The sudden overdose deaths of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Prince, in 2014 and 2016, happened during wall-to-wall coverage of an emerging crisis, which had come to be known as the “opioid epidemic.” A 60...
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Saving the Climate in a Triple Crisis
Capitalism is facing three major crises. A pandemic-induced health crisis has rapidly ignited an economic crisis with yet unknown consequences for financial stability, and all of this is playing out...
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Republicans Greet Covid Stimulus With Another Round of Inflation Fearmongering
Predictably, conservatives are once again warning about inflation. This happens every time a Democrat takes office—even if he merely continues the identical policies of his Republican predecessor....
View ArticleSarah Everard and the Useless Generality of “Male Violence”
Sarah Everard, to hear her story told for her now, was killed “after doing everything she was supposed to do. She took a longer route that was well-lit and populated. She wore bright clothes and shoes...
View ArticleHow Biden Can Transform America’s Foreign Policy
Failed wars have bookended President Biden’s political career. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, when the futility and misguidedness of our war in Vietnam were clear. He ran as an...
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