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“The Whole Town Is Finished”
At midday on January 25, 2019, the town of Brumadinho in the southern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais was hit by a mudslide after a dam break, killing over 200 people. Homes were destroyed and trees...
View ArticleThe Return of the Empowered American Worker
In 1978, resigning United Auto Workers president Douglas Fraser delivered a scathing critique of the American managerial class.“I believe the leaders of the business community, with few exceptions,...
View ArticlePete Buttigieg’s Undeniable Allure
Before Pete Buttigieg was born in 1982, the now-shuttered brokerage house, E.F. Hutton, began running a famous series of TV commercials touting their ability to predict the fluctuations in the stock...
View ArticleThe Coveted, Overpriced Missile at the Heart of Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
However narrow the managers may try to make it, the impeachment inquiry that has finally engulfed the presidency of Donald Trump after nearly three years of malfeasance is a scandalous goulash: a bald...
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The Forgotten Father of the Abortion Rights Movement
I first met Bill Baird in Hempstead, Long Island, on a freezing December night in 1968. This was 18 months after he was arrested and jailed for handing a can of contraceptive foam to an unmarried coed...
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The Next Standing Rock Is Everywhere
There won’t be another Standing Rock. At its height, the mobilization against the Dakota Access Pipeline, beginning in 2016, was a historic Native-led movement against the same kind of land grabs...
View ArticleThe Atlanta Braves Drag Their Feet as Fans Keep Chopping Their Arms
Last Friday, Ryan Helsley could have said nothing.A 25-year-old rookie pitcher in the relief rotation for the St. Louis Cardinals, Helsley is currently playing in his first-ever Major League Baseball...
View ArticleAmerica Is Screwing the Kurds Yet Again
The United Nations had just opened its general assembly in late September last year when President Donald Trump gave a rare, 81-minute press conference. Kurdish journalist Rahim Rashidi, who was born...
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The Bittersweet Joy of Fat Bear Week
Every October for the past five years, Fat Bear Week has showcased some of the healthiest, hungriest, and chonkiest bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve, a four-million-acre expanse of wilderness...
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The Disaster Novelist
In the summer of 2016, the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh published The Great Derangement, a book-length essay on climate change. The title was an indictment of his vocation. Ghosh argued that there were...
View ArticleThe Plot Against Medicare for All
Last week, at a huge and frightening retirement community in Florida known as The Villages, Donald Trump promised to protect seniors from two of the most menacing monsters lurking under their beds:...
View ArticleNational Review’s Strained Defense of Trump
Last Monday, I wrote that President Donald Trump’s supporters haven’t mounted a plausible enough defense of his involvement in the Ukraine scandal to avoid impeachment. His surrogates tripped and...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Case for the Presidency Is Collapsing
Joe Biden is in trouble. It’s not his actual campaign that’s in truly dire straits. Although Elizabeth Warren has risen steadily, troubling donors already troubled by Biden’s age, he’s still first or...
View ArticleWho Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature?
Two years ago, when the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro, the institution appeared to be in the midst of an evolution. After decades of stubborn and curmudgeonly devotion to...
View ArticleThe White House Knows It’s Losing on Impeachment
President Donald Trump’s biggest problem in the impeachment battle is that the facts aren’t on his side. The White House’s own memo shows him pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to...
View ArticleThe Grim Lottery of Surprise Medical Bill Stories
In April 2017, a man named Drew Calver thought he was dying. A heart attack had pinned him to the floor of his bedroom. His neighbor took him to St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, where he was...
View ArticleHow the Drug War Blob Took Over The Washington Post
For more than two years, The Washington Post has relentlessly pursued the story of how a combination of corporate greed and government inaction fueled the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in recorded...
View ArticleThe Gripping Class Horror of Parasite
At the Cannes Film Festival in May, the actress Elle Fanning walked down the red carpet in a silk Gucci gown, with cape sleeves and a crystal appliqué flower at the waist. The cost of this soigné...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Diego Maradona
There has always been a touch of the divine about Diego Armando Maradona. Despite the doping, the drugs, the slow slide into corpulent decadence, some supernatural aura still clings to our image of...
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Olga Tokarczuk’s Gripping Eco-Mystery
Murder mysteries, however else they might differ, rely on one major, shared belief: that murder matters, and is worth looking into. Whoever did the killing, whoever was killed, the investigation moves...
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