The Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community
In 2017, beloved Bible teacher and evangelical personality Beth Moore had the chance to meet a theologian she’d long admired. As she later recounted on her blog, she was eager to share a meal with the...
View ArticleGas Price Wars Are Back and More Incoherent Than Ever
Gas prices in the United States are rising. Like clockwork, the GOP is blaming this on Joe Biden. “Since President Biden took office, average gas prices are up more than 50 cents a gallon,” Florida...
View ArticleWhy Landlords Target Mothers for Eviction
In February, a white man showed up at Patricia Mendoza’s door and informed her that the month-to-month lease for her two-bedroom apartment in Imperial Beach, California, would be terminated on April...
View ArticleJoe Biden Hasn’t Held a Press Conference. Who Cares?
On Monday, the Biden administration unveiled an unofficial slogan for its first 50-odd days: “100 million shots in arms and 100 million checks in pockets,” tweeted Chief of Staff Ron Klain. It’s not...
View ArticleFacebook Has Found a New Way to Ruin Media
For a company that says it’s not a publisher, Facebook just can’t stay away from the news industry. According to Axios, Facebook is testing a tool for journalists to build websites and newsletters that...
View ArticleMitch McConnell Doesn’t Care About Saving the Senate
Pop culture usually depicts the filibuster with senators making lengthy speeches on the floor to indefinitely delay bills that they passionately oppose. Jimmy Stewart’s character in Mr. Smith Goes to...
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The Lost Plan for a Black Utopian Town
In 1946, a young Black G.I. named Floyd McKissick stood amid the bombed-out rubble of Tourcoing in northern France. His unit was helping rebuild the city, and he wondered why Americans couldn’t embark...
View ArticleThe Right’s Fight Against LGBTQ Rights Is More Than a Culture War
For the first time, the Equality Act, the federal legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, will get a hearing in the Senate, when the...
View ArticleThe Cousinhood That Still Rules Britain
It’s no secret that Britain has in recent years been something of a mess, yet the Conservative Party’s popularity continues unabated. Why don’t British voters blame Boris Johnson or his party for the...
View ArticleTucker Carlson Is Leading the Anti-Vax Right
In an email to staff last week, Fox News’s Lachlan Murdoch announced that the network won’t be reopening its offices until Labor Day. “The health and safety of our workforce has remained my priority,”...
View ArticleBreak up the Telecom Giants
Early in February, a strange and humbly formatted quarter-page ad appeared in The Wall Street Journal. It was an open letter to AT&T CEO John Stankey from one Aaron M. Epstein of North Hollywood,...
View ArticleHow The New York Times Blew the Cuomo Story
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing the densest thicket of scandals to ensnare any American politician since—well, the end of the Trump administration less than two months ago. Even so, the...
View ArticleThe Right-Wing War on State Courts
State courts! Of all the institutions of American government, they might receive the least attention relative to their impact on day-to-day life. State courts are where most criminal trials are held,...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Crack-Up
“The purpose of the Democratic Party,” the political consultant Robert Shrum once advised, “is to take care of ordinary Americans.” Fair enough, as far as his statement goes. But if that’s the purpose...
View ArticleThe Biden-LBJ Comparisons Are Overblown
Pundits have gotten kind of goofy about Joe Biden recently. After the president signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act on March 11, David Brooks called Biden a “transformational president,”...
View ArticleStop Worrying About Conservatives Refusing to Be Vaccinated
It is probably good news that Donald Trump, speaking on Fox News on Tuesday, encouraged viewers to get a Covid-19 vaccine. “I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it,” the...
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We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide
On January 13, one week before the inauguration of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States and seven long days after the storming of the Capitol by an armed right-wing mob, it was...
View ArticleHalting the AstraZeneca Vaccine Over Blood Clots Could Do More Damage Than Good
The AstraZeneca vaccine rollout was already chaotic. But overly jumpy governmental decisions may have made it even worse. Countries like Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, and Italy all temporarily...
View ArticleRepublicans Know They’re Losing the Filibuster Fight
Glacially and fitfully, the filibuster debate is continuing to move in the right direction. In an interview that aired Tuesday night, President Joe Biden said for the very first time that he’d be open...
View ArticleRepublican Brats Are Complaining About Getting Billions in Covid Relief
One of the more puzzling developments in states’ rights conservatism has been the combination of don’t-tread-on-me militancy with a determination to keep sucking on the federal teat. This untidy jumble...
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