Trump’s Tax on the National Psyche
The most incredible thing about last week’s decision in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on detained migrant children is that the case existed at all. The court ruled that the Trump administration...
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Who Gets to Speak Freely?
What is free speech? The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—perhaps the most explicit legal protection of the right to free speech in the entire world—does not say. It simply states that...
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The New American Homeless
Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed letter from her landlord in the mailbox. She felt a familiar panic as she began to read it. For nearly a year, Goodman and her...
View ArticleThe Absurd Strategy Behind Russia’s Nuclear Explosion
The United States and Russia are entering a new arms race, and the costs aren’t just monetary. On August 8, Russian civilians around the remote village of Nyonoksa found themselves downwind of a...
View ArticleThe Small Business Solution to Saving the Amazon
It was the Baniwa women who came up with the idea to sell the Jiquitaia chili peppers.They had already planted and picked the peppers in their own gardens in their communities along the Rio Içana, a...
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Rudyard Kipling, American Imperialist
Last summer, students at the University of Manchester arrived in their newly refurbished Students’ Union building to find some words of advice painted on a wall before them: If you can keep your head...
View ArticleJawline Explores the Teenage Dream of Social Media
America now divides into two classes: those who have lived with social media–laden smartphones since childhood, and the rest of us. Note how we elders are now the exception, rather than the rule, since...
View ArticleJeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler
If you are an accomplished science or technology writer, your books are probably handled by the most powerful literary agency in the field: the famous Brockman Inc., started by John Brockman and now...
View ArticleConservative Judges Are Brawling Over Originalism
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a notable ruling on police shootings this week, ruling in favor of a man whose encounter with law enforcement nearly a decade ago left him with profound...
View ArticleIs the Biden Bubble About to Burst?
Joe Biden never thought he’d have to do this. Positioned, as he was, as the affable veep to an immensely popular president, the veteran of three previous bids for the Democratic nomination assumed a...
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The Integration Success Stories
On April 19, 1971, the Senate began debate on legislation that had the potential to foster meaningful integration in American schools. The bill was Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s baby. He...
View ArticleIndian Country Fights to Protect Its Children and Preserve Its Sovereignty
As president of both the Quinault Nation and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Fawn Sharp is a busy person. As of late, much of her time has been dedicated to the fight for Native children...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as a “Populist”
When I read mainstream political commentary, I often think of the awkward gyrating Elaine used to do on Seinfeld, flapping her limbs in all directions in an incompetent, and yet totally confident,...
View ArticleHow David Koch Changed the World
When billionaire libertarian David Koch died this week following a decades-long battle with prostate cancer, the Arctic was rapidly melting. The Amazon rainforest was on fire. And the Earth had just...
View ArticleDavid Koch Is Gone, but His Pipelines Are Here to Stay
David Koch, the marginally less-vile of the vile duo known as the Koch Brothers, is dead. Setting aside the fact that Charles was always the more powerful and, as a result, the more interesting of the...
View ArticleKirsten Dunst’s All-American Con Artist
Krystal Stubbs, the anti-heroine of the faintly surrealist, anti-capitalist satire On Becoming a God in Central Florida, makes a great many mistakes over the first season’s brisk ten-episode run. Some...
View ArticleWhy Is the One Percent So Obsessed With Magic?
In the Rarities bar, a private lounge in a tucked-away corner of the Lotte New York Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue, Steve Cohen is adjusting his gold-button blazer and wire-rimmed glasses. As he peers...
View ArticleOne for All
As you’ve probably heard, UN scientists recently warned that we have eleven years to avert climate disaster. We face a civilizational crisis that can only be solved by unprecedented action on an...
View ArticleCherokee Nation Is Coming to Congress
On Thursday, Cherokee Nation (CN) Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. held a press conference to officially announce his intention to exercise the tribe’s treaty right to appoint a delegate to the United...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
When the members of the Group of Seven (G-7), the seven nations deemed by the International Monetary Fund to have the largest advanced economies in the world, get together for their rotating annual...
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