The Myth of Class Reductionism
Ever since Bernie Sanders’s insurgent run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, a specter has haunted left-liberal debate: the specter of “class reductionism.” Left-identitarians and...
View ArticleThe Mayors Fighting for a Progressive Vision of the South
Not so long ago, the South was functionally a one-party region. The Democratic Party’s midcentury tent stretched from Richmond all the way down to New Orleans, a 13-state ex-rebel collective containing...
View ArticleSinners in the Hands of an Angry Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg is the most important person in the world. There are politicians and public figures with more power and influence. There are people of all kinds who are more well known. But Thunberg has...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Sitting Duck
The Republicans projected confidence going into Thursday. Reports that President Trump had pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s son had finally nudged Democrats...
View ArticleRudy Giuliani’s Year of Living Dangerously
Nearly thirty years ago, then-President George H.W. Bush stood in Kyiv, in front of an auditorium of Soviet officials struggling to revive a flailing Soviet Union. Here was a golden opportunity for an...
View Article“Clear the Camps!” Is the New “Build the Wall!”
Two troubling weeks have passed since news broke of the Trump administration’s “major crackdown” on the homeless. Of course, these rumored plans are thin on details; as with other prior announcements,...
View ArticleThe Green New Deal Meets Green Republicanism
In Concrete Economics, Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong exalt Alexander Hamilton as the architect of the booming industrial economy that took off in America in the second part of the nineteenth...
View ArticleThe Mess Trump Has Made in Ukraine
In the wake of his now-infamous July phone call with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, it’s not surprising that President Donald Trump has received the lion’s share of American analysis,...
View ArticleImpeachment Shouldn’t Be the Goal of Impeachment
With Thursday’s release of an almost comically damning complaint from an anonymous whistleblower alleging serious abuses of office by President Donald Trump, we seem to be barreling toward his...
View ArticleThe President and His Whistleblower
Here are two things that happened this week. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered an aggressively nationalistic speech at the United Nations General Assembly. He framed the world in binary...
View ArticleCongress Is Still Breaking Treaties and Cheating Indian Country
Paul Cook feigned a smile. His face wore the same weary look of consternation it had featured for hours. The Republican Representative, from California’s 8th District, didn’t know what else to...
View ArticleThe Real Costs of the War in Afghanistan
Now in its nineteenth year, the Afghanistan war just won’t end. Negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban are now dead, according to President Donald Trump. The president, who once clamored for an...
View ArticleThe Fetishization of Employer-Provided Health Care
Earlier this month, at a town hall event for Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, a military veteran named John told the senator that he was going to kill himself because the cost of...
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How The Politician’s Ruthless Satire Misses
“It was a waking dream—the kind that arrives in the twilight between sleep, and the real world,” the high-school student Payton Hobart recalls brightly, in the opening lines of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix...
View ArticleThe Next Big Labor Strike Hits Oregon
Just over a century ago, the city of Seattle went on strike. Some 25,000 workers walked out of their jobs and hit the streets, joining another 35,000 shipyard workers who had already been called out....
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The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley
July 1945, the engineer Vannevar Bush—one of the founders of the Raytheon electronics corporation, and director of the federal Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War...
View ArticleThe Rot on The Hill
There are many things about life inside the Beltway (physical and metaphorical) that people in the rest of America might find strange. The subway system has ads from defense contractors boasting about...
View ArticleThe Right Way to Impeach Trump
Let’s start with the good. The Democratic Party’s response to a whistleblower’s report that President Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to interfere in next year’s presidential...
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The Tyranny of Economists
In 1984, a two-year-old named Joy Griffith climbed onto her grandfather’s reclining sofa chair to watch cartoons. At one point, she fell between the collapsible footrest and the seat. The footrest...
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Jake Skeets Finds the Beauty in Brutality
Drunktown, USA. The Indian Capital of the World. Home. Nuzzled in the northeast corner of New Mexico, Gallup is for many people a dot on the map, known mostly for its high rates of violence and crime...
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