How Trump Wrecked the Conservative Money Machine
Back in the days when the GOP was a traditional, pro-business party led by orthodox conservatives like Paul Ryan and John Boehner, House Republicans could always shake the corporate money tree for...
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Remembering the Father of Supply-Side Economics
The economist Robert Mundell died on April 4. Although known primarily for his work on international economics—he’s popularly known in economic circles as the “father of the euro”—he played a vital...
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The Turbulent Life of Francis Bacon
The same day that Francis Bacon’s landmark retrospective opened at the Grand Palais in Paris, in 1971, his longtime boyfriend and muse George Dyer died on the toilet in their hotel. It was unclear...
View ArticleDuke Energy’s Green Facade Isn’t Fooling People Anymore
Eleven years ago, as President Obama was beginning to emphasize climate change as a potential legislative priority, utility companies began strategizing to survive the new age. In June 2010, then–Duke...
View ArticleHow an Oat Milk Pipeline in New Jersey Explains the Problem With Biden’s...
Trendy Swedish food company Oatly is fooling you. That, at least, is what a Medium post from entrepreneurial self-help guru Nat Eliason, which recently went viral thanks to a stray tweet, claimed last...
View ArticleMade for Love Puts a Marriage Under the Microscope
Cristin Milioti, an actress of irrepressible charisma, is for some reason a natural at playing women who are being squashed, constrained, or otherwise manipulated by some of the worst men on the...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Too Subservient to Corporate America to Wage War on “Woke...
“From election law to environmentalism to radical social agendas to the Second Amendment, parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government. Corporations will invite...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Monster Is Matt Gaetz?
Florida Republican Matt Gaetz may be the first member of Congress under investigation for sex trafficking, and whether or not he is indicted, “investigated for sex trafficking” has now affixed itself...
View ArticleInfrastructure Spending Can Save Local Journalism
What counts as infrastructure? Critics of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan are already in a huff that the administration’s proposals go well beyond repairing roads and bridges. Some of the...
View ArticleIs Gutfeld! the Worst Show on Television?
Over the past 25 years, Fox News has turned both cable news and partisan propaganda into a science. Obsessed with breaking down ratings to the minute, if not the millisecond, the network is hyperaware...
View ArticleThere’s More to Hunter Biden Than a Laptop
One night in 2016, during “a crack-fueled, cross-country odyssey” that he recalls in his new memoir, Beautiful Things, Hunter Biden saw an owl. He had already totaled one rental car that trip....
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Religious Persecution Complex
Democracies depend on law; authoritarian systems prefer legal theater. In recent cases having to do with religion, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has shown a distinct preference for the...
View ArticleTwitter Is Enabling Saudi Arabia’s Brutal Crackdown on Dissent
Contrary to Saudi Arabia’s self-proclaimed image as a reform-minded state gradually opening to the world, the country’s human rights situation is worsening, according to both activists and the family...
View ArticleThe Case for More Canceling
Dan Pfieffer, a former senior aide to President Barack Obama and current podcast co-host, shared some interesting data in a recent newsletter. If you had the vague sense that the incredibly stupid...
View ArticleCare Work Is Climate Work
“What is infrastructure?” Somehow, this is the question under debate right now, thanks to America’s antiquated political system, which has made it virtually impossible to pass anything that isn’t a...
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Fox News Made Matt Gaetz
In his 2019 book, Firebrand: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the MAGA Revolution, (a document that one day will likely go by the name of “Exhibit A”), Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz made the case...
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How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a...
View ArticleKazuo Ishiguro’s Deceptively Simple Story of AI
The titular narrator of Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, is a robot. This isn’t spoiler—this revelation comes early in the book. Klara is an Artificial Friend, a lifelike but nevertheless...
View ArticleBurning Pig Poop Fumes Doesn’t Solve Anything
Last week, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality officially approved the installation of biogas digesters at four Smithfield-owned hog waste lagoons in the Sampson and Duplin counties....
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