Soccer Is Broken. The European Super League Proves It.
Leicester City’s 2016 Premier League title is the greatest sporting achievement of my lifetime, and I’m not sure it’s really close. Leicester City had been in the third division of English soccer less...
View ArticleDerek Chauvin Was Not an Aberration
At 4:10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was remanded into custody, his bail revoked, guilty on all three counts of the murder of George Floyd. The state has...
View ArticleWalter Mondale’s Visionary Liberalism Is Still Echoing Today
Minnesota’s Walter Mondale, who died Monday night at 93, was the embodiment of a strand of full-throated liberalism that defined the Democratic Party for much of the last half of the twentieth...
View ArticleBringing the Black Radical Tradition to the Oscars
This year’s slate of nominees for the Academy Awards brings Amiri Baraka to mind. In his 1965 essay “The Revolutionary Theatre,” Baraka called for Black productions that might “stagger through our...
View ArticleMark Bittman’s Beef With Capitalism
What we grow determines how we eat, and what we eat determines how we live and die. These simple but overlooked truths drive the work of the longtime food writer Mark Bittman, whose new book, Animal,...
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The Weird, Extremely German Origins of the Wirecard Scandal
German scandals are not like other scandals. The bouquet of a classic German scandal contains unmistakable notes: a rabbit-hole impenetrability, the implication of an entire guilt-ridden society, and,...
View ArticleThe Impossibility of Ethical Recreation on Stolen Land
Over the past two weeks, a scandal has enveloped Western climbing circles. At its center is a 36-year-old military veteran, Richard Gilbert, who, as of last week, has admitted to and apologized for...
View ArticleWalter Mondale Wasn’t Scared of Raising Taxes. Is Biden?
Walter Mondale, who died Monday at 93, was the last presidential nominee to tell the truth about taxes. This experiment was judged a failure, and no nominee of either party ever attempted it again. We...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Unhinged, Baseless Attacks on Biden’s DOJ Nominees
In the days to come, there will be plenty of commentary on the implications of Tuesday’s guilty verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial for the broader police reform agenda, but at least one proximate and...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Big Tech Can’t Distance Themselves From the Police Violence...
A few hours after a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of three charges in the murder of George Floyd, Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, announced his sympathy and support for the outcome. “Today’s...
View ArticleThe Right-Wing Media’s Shameful Defense of Derek Chauvin
There might not be anything more embarrassing than getting scolded by Fox News host and reckless driver Jeanine Pirro on national television. But that’s what happened to Greg Gutfeld, himself the host...
View ArticleCan Merrick Garland Save the Minneapolis Police Department?
Most of the attention on how George Floyd died last year focused on the actions of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murder on Tuesday for Floyd’s death. But Chauvin...
View ArticleThe Crisis in Home Care
Kara Ward started her life as a caregiver earlier than most people do. She was only 29 when her mother was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2006. Ward had two young children of her own at the time—a...
View ArticleThe Filibuster’s Most Devilish Trick
On Monday, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the main character of the United States Senate, announced that he would co-sponsor one of the main items on the Democratic legislative agenda—the...
View ArticleThe Black Panther Party Has Never Been More Popular. But Actual Black...
On October 7, 2020, Jalil Muntaqim exited the Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate New York a free man. A member of the Black Panther Party and its more militant, clandestine offshoot, the Black...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of Low Climate Expectations
There’s a troubling pattern in coverage of the White House’s new emissions target, formally announced Thursday morning as part of an international climate summit. On its face, the Biden...
View ArticleRich People Paying Other Rich People Is Not a Climate “Solution”
On Thursday, while President Biden met with world leaders at the climate summit, the Senate Agriculture Committee convened to vote on the Growing Climate Solutions Act. The bill seeks to create a...
View ArticleBolsonaro Doesn’t Want to Save the Amazon. He Just Wants to Extort the...
It sounds a lot like extortion: After more than two years denying that runaway deforestation in the Amazon is a real problem, the Brazilian government now says it will protect the rain forest if the...
View ArticleThe Blake Bailey Fiasco Implicates Everyone
When the Los Angeles Times asked Blake Bailey what he thought about Laura Marsh’s review of his Philip Roth biography in The New Republic, he replied, “That was harsh. I mean, wow.” He had a heavier...
View ArticleWhat Did the Sacklers Know?
What did they know, and when did they know it? That is, when did the Sackler family know that OxyContin, the drug responsible for their vast fortune, was also partly responsible for the opioid crisis?...
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