How Much Do You Trust Bill Barr?
Bill Barr, the once and likely future attorney general, had one mission on Capitol Hill on Tuesday: convince the Senate that he would be an honorable man. In a day-long confirmation hearing before the...
View ArticleThe Real Villain of Fyre Festival
“Honestly I can’t believe this documentary—there’s two of ‘em.” Against the strains of “Build Me Up Buttercup,” this is how the Hulu documentary Fyre Fraud draws to a close. The disbelieving individual...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Bernie Sanders? A Lot of Democrats, Apparently.
In the wake of Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary, some people argued that, as Vanity Fair put it, he “won in the end” because his race had “a profound, and...
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Francis Fukuyama’s Shrinking Idea
There’s an intriguing phenomenon in publishing you could call the One Great Idea book. Usually written by a leading senior scholar in an interdisciplinary field such as international relations,...
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A Coal Baron’s Takeover of the EPA Is Nearly Complete
A few weeks after President Donald Trump moved into the White House, he received a memo from one of his biggest campaign donors: Robert Murray, the CEO of Murray Energy, America’s largest private coal...
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Edith Espinal Has Spent 18 Months Hiding From ICE in a Church. How Much...
There’s little about Ohio’s Columbus Mennonite Church that marks it as a sanctuary. Only a small cardboard sign by the parking lot proclaims, in English, Spanish, and Arabic, “No matter where you are...
View ArticleThis Is Not Normal. This Is Not Normal. This Is Not Normal.
The Trump International Hotel enjoys an enviable location in the nerve center of American governance. It stands on Pennsylvania Avenue, situated roughly midway between the White House and the Capitol....
View ArticleWelcome to the Next Two Years in America
“We are getting crushed!” So exclaimed President Trump to his chief of staff in response to media coverage of the government shutdown, according to The New York Times. This is an accurate description...
View ArticleWhy Is Greece Such a Hot Spot of Left-Wing Terrorism?
The posh Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki is a hilly expanse of high-end boutiques, jewelry shops, museums, and art galleries. It’s an area of relatively untouched wealth, and even at the tail end of...
View ArticleThe Trump Shutdown Is an Environmental Crisis
The Environmental Protection Agency employs about 13,000 people to protect Americans from pollution. Last week, fewer than 900 were working, the rest having been furloughed due to the government...
View ArticleTrump and Xi: A Tale of Two Egos
Amid the many tributes paid to the late George H.W. Bush last November, an understandable minority dwelt on the moment when Bush became the first sitting president to throw up on a major ally. After 16...
View ArticleWant to Pass Medicare for All? Fix American Democracy First.
The federal government’s partial shutdown enters its second month this week, and there is no end in sight. It does not matter that the American public largely wants the government to reopen, or that...
View ArticleTrump’s Cruel Proposal to End the Shutdown
Senate Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday announced the first hint of progress in negotiations over the government shutdown. The chamber has scheduled procedural votes on two separate bills for...
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What Jill Abramson Gets Wrong About the Future of Journalism
Jill Abramson’s new book, Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, is billed as a “definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade,” even as Abramson...
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This Is Nancy Pelosi’s Finest Hour
Just a few months ago, it seemed like Nancy Pelosi’s bid to become speaker of the House of Representatives was in trouble. While attacks from the right had been commonplace for years, she came under...
View ArticleHow Trump Suborns Perjury
BuzzFeed set off a cascading series of controversies last week when it reported that President Donald Trump had “directed” his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a Trump...
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The Conflicted Soul of Modern Liberalism
“In the United States at this time,” Lionel Trilling asserted in 1950, “liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.” A few years later, in his highly influential book...
View ArticleKing Donald’s Royal Moment
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, recently handed President Donald Trump a way to cancel next week’s State of the Union address without losing face....
View ArticlePlease Don’t Let Venezuela Be Trump’s Shutdown Distraction
The fraught situation in Venezuela seems to be coming to a head. On Wednesday, 35-year-old opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president following widespread protests calling for the...
View ArticleWhy Are Democrats Freaking Out About “Electability”?
Ben Terris calls it “Pundititis.” Democrats still haven’t recovered from the trauma of Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump, and it’s causing them to wring their hands about every candidate emerging...
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