John Boehner Can’t Disown the Rot He Created
John Boehner wants you to know how appalled he is by a faction of the right whose rise he actively facilitated. In excerpts of his new memoir, On the House, that were published in Politico and reported...
View ArticleDon’t Change, Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is, financially speaking, quietly one of the most successful newspapers in the country. But you don’t hear about the Journal’s success all that often. The media industry...
View ArticleThe Lost Worlds of Edward Said
Exiles often have conflicting feelings about their adoptive society, and Edward Said was no exception. As a Palestinian in the United States, he recognized the country’s pervasive racism and violence,...
View ArticleAre States Really Abolishing Qualified Immunity for Cops? Not Exactly.
According to the news, New Mexico supposedly abolished qualified immunity last week. Axios reported that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill that “eliminates a legal defense known as...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t Biden Canceled the Dakota Access Pipeline Yet?
Last Friday, more than 400 people—lawyers, journalists, court staffers, gas and oil employees, and Indigenous citizens—joined a conference call that the fractious group believed might provide at least...
View ArticleThe Case for the Talking Filibuster
As dawn rose over the Capitol on a Wednesday in early March 1960, two men remained on the Senate floor—segregationist South Carolina Senator Olin Johnson was reading aloud from the collected works of...
View ArticleBiden’s Homeland Security Is Just as Bad as Trump’s
Abolish what? The deportation arm of the United States government appears to be secure under President Joe Biden. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a “noble mission,” according to Alejandro...
View ArticleCorporations That Donate to Mitch McConnell Don’t Care About Climate Change
On Tuesday, executives from more than 300 companies—including renewables firms and several gas and electric utilities—released a letter urging the Biden administration to pledge to cut emissions by 50...
View ArticleHow Americans Lost Their Fervor for Freedom
In America today, the right has a monopoly on the word “freedom.” Conservatives talk about “freedom” at every opportunity, while liberals and leftists do so only with embarrassment, shielded with...
View ArticleIs Biden Ditching His Promise to Protect Workers From Covid-19?
Among the various ways President Donald Trump caused more Americans to die needlessly from Covid-19 was by failing to issue a legally enforceable “emergency temporary standard” to protect workers. The...
View ArticleDeath to America’s Manicured Lawns
Last week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the Southern Nevada Water Authority is officially proposing a ban on the continued maintenance of ornamental grass in the desert metropolis, and...
View ArticleOnce Again, Police Rally Around Their Death-Dealing Power
Following a night of protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, after an officer shot and killed a young Black man, Daunte Wright, police raised a “thin blue line” flag, under the stars and stripes....
View ArticleWashington’s Inflation Hysteria Is Fueled by Corporate Greed
I first heard about the idea of a “reserve army of the unemployed” when I was in college. Advanced by Karl Marx in chapter 25 of Capital: Volume I, the theory is that it is in the interest of...
View ArticleNo One Is Going to Stop Tucker Carlson
On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson told his millions of viewers that public health officials were lying to them about the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. Noting that the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson...
View ArticleLet Other Countries Copy the Covid Vaccines
There’s one big thing the Biden administration could do to beat back the global pandemic: urge the World Trade Organization to waive patent protections on Covid-19 vaccines. To date, it hasn’t done...
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Whither the Religious Left?
No one who watched the inauguration of Joe Biden could have missed that he was a Roman Catholic. Before the day’s public ceremonies, he attended a private Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the...
View ArticleJoe Biden Isn’t Close to Being a Historic President Yet
Although we’re still less than three months into the Biden administration, there’s already an eagerness all around to characterize and define his presidency. This is understandable on a psychological...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Could Get Dragged Into the Cancel Culture Wars
The United States has one national Constitution and one national Bill of Rights. But sometimes it feels like this country has two First Amendments. There is the one that was written down in the late...
View ArticleBernie Madoff Lives!
What also must be known about Bernie Madoff, who died on Wednesday at the age of 82, is that prior to the revelation in December 2008 that he had been running the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, he was,...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Court-Packing Plan Doesn’t Make Any Sense
You can tell that House and Senate Democrats are serious about court-packing by the new bill’s name: the Judiciary Act of 2021. They didn’t burden it with an insufferable acronym, like the Judicial...
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