Former New York Times Executive Kerrie Gillis Joins The New Republic as...
New York, NY—(February 22, 2019)— The New Republic today announced Kerrie Gillis as its new publisher, effective February 20. Gillis will report to Win McCormack, The New Republic’s owner and editor in...
View ArticleHoms
Wind this morning so strong the borrowed Florida house shakes on its stilts over water.White pelicans, which do not resemble the spirit, write their single sentencestraight through it, unhindered.Their...
View ArticlePoem on a Stair
On every stairway with the kite-shaped stepI stop on that step one secondto commemorate one particular step in the shape of a kite I’ll never again be able to step onI’ll never...
View ArticleSouth Huntington Apartments
And you were breathless in the laundry room.Hiding behind a closet door, ajar. Listeningfor him to take the cellar stairs. Is it possible he was frightenedhe might kill you? You could see his shoes...
View Article“Socialism” Has Lost All Meaning in American Politics
On Monday, during a visit to New Hampshire, California Senator Kamala Harris was asked by a reporter if she considered herself a democratic socialist—just as Bernie Sanders, an independent who won the...
View ArticleThe Jussie Smollett Smokescreen
There were plenty of contenders for the biggest news story this week. North Carolina officials ordered a new election on Thursday in the state’s 9th congressional district after hearing testimony about...
View ArticleIs It Cruel to Have Kids in the Era of Climate Change?
In one of his early works, the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche relayed an Ancient Greek legend about King Midas pursuing the satyr Silenus, a wise companion of the god...
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The Crime of Parenting While Poor
One morning in May, on the fifth floor of an office building in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, five mothers and seven small children sat in a circle, singing a song to the tune...
View ArticleAge of Anxiety
Authors have many images to describe distorted mental states, but that of a glass enclosure, which warps vision and sound, is among the most common. In his searing essay on the loss of his daughter,...
View ArticleDid Trump Win His War on the Russia Investigation?
The Russia investigation may be drawing to a close. According to multiple news organizations, special counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to report his findings to Attorney General Bill Barr in the...
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An Engineer of Subversive Ideas
The early months of 1743 brought Denis Diderot’s career as a con artist and freeloader to a shameful end. His own father committed him as a prisoner to the Carmelite monastery in his hometown of...
View ArticleDianne Feinstein Is a Bigger Climate Threat Than Trump
As climate change worsens, so does President Donald Trump’s denial. On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that his administration is assembling a panel of fringe, industry-funded scientists who...
View ArticleThe Far Right’s Secret Weapon: Fascist Fashion
At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much out of the ordinary about them. A t-shirt showing a mountain and deer and the slogan “Respect Nature.” A black polo shirt with black, white, and red...
View ArticleThe Overdue Death of Democratic “Pragmatism”
It’s an unwritten rule in political journalism today that Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota senator and Democratic candidate for president, must be described as “pragmatic.” There isn’t much mystery as to...
View ArticleHow Robert Mueller Changed Washington
Even before special counsel Robert Mueller hands in the findings of his investigation, his inquiry has already left its mark on the nation’s capital.Washington is a different town today than it was...
View ArticleWhat This Massive Cross Really Stands For
What exactly does the cross stand for, and who gets to decide? The Supreme Court will wrestle with the question on Wednesday morning when it hears oral arguments in American Legion v. American Humanity...
View ArticleNorth Korea Is Not Vietnam
Nine years ago, when I lived in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, I overheard three North Korean men having beers by a hotel pool. I tried to strike up a conversation with them in my elementary...
View ArticleThe Art of the Deal You Can’t Refuse
Donald Trump’s former personal attorney had a simple message for Congress on Wednesday: The president is a crook. “I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is,” Michael Cohen, a fixer for Trump for...
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Can Jeremy Corbyn Save Britain From Brexit?
For most of his career, Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour MP for Islington North since 1983, has been well respected in activist circles and parodied in parliamentary ones. Between 1997 and 2010, under the...
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The Weight of Experience
Early in his memoir Heavy, Kiese Laymon writes, “My body knew things my mouth and my mind couldn’t, maybe wouldn’t, express.” It knew that blue cheese dressing made him feel better after awkward...
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