Labor Took on “Bad Bosses” Long Before #MeToo
“Will There Ever Be a #MeToo-Style Movement for Bad Bosses?” New York magazine asked readers in a tone-deaf fog of obliviousness last month. The piece itself was fairly benign, addressing the...
View ArticleTucker Carlson Debuts a New Ukrainegate Defense
Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, America’s least charismatic white supremacist, has apologized for covering the ongoing impeachment hearings, which he has deemed “tiresome,” “dumb,” and “boring.” As he...
View ArticleDon’t Embrace Originalism to Defend Trump’s Impeachment
In the pending congressional impeachment inquiry, the House Judiciary Committee is charged with (among other things) taking up the question of what the constitutional process of impeachment means. To...
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The Uneasy Uplift of The Testaments
When I first read The Handmaid’s Tale, the world was in the midst of a huge social experiment: If we just told girls that sexism was over, would it somehow turn out to be true? Growing up as a (rich,...
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André Aciman’s Dance to the Music of Time
It’s a little misleading to call Find Me, the new novel by André Aciman, a sequel to Call Me by Your Name, Aciman’s first novel, which was published in 2007 and adapted in 2017 into a critically...
View ArticleThe Cops Are Culture Warriors
When San Francisco voters elected Chesa Boudin, a public defender running on a platform to end mass incarceration, as district attorney in November, their decision was swiftly heralded as the end of an...
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In Making Comics, Lynda Barry Shares the Secrets of Her Success
Whenever I find myself in my sons’ school, taking in the crayon scribbles that line the hallway, I think of this, from John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation: When the kids were little, we went to a...
View ArticleDuncan Hunter Did Something Right
Congressman Duncan Hunter seemed in no hurry to get back inside to the Christmas party at a Capitol Hill Mexican restaurant thrown by a Norwegian weapons company, so we each lit up another cigarette,...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Endorses Joe Biden’s Delusions
If Nate Silver’s band of Bayesians can be believed, former Vice President Joe Biden is winning the 2020 presidential race’s “endorsement primary”—and by a substantial margin. Whether this stray factoid...
View ArticleThe Media’s Disingenuous Narrative About Medicare for All
The consensus among wonks is that Democratic politicians who support Medicare for All are saddling themselves with an unpopular policy. Never mind whether they’re supporting an effective policy; it’s...
View ArticleCongressman Objects to Casino-Goers Being Subject to Local Law if They...
Yesterday, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Representative Deb Haaland’s Justice for Native Survivors of Sexual Violence Act, which she introduced in July with a bipartisan group...
View ArticleClimate Change Is the Ultimate “OK, Boomer” Issue
On a Sunday in November, 170 students filed into the Vermont Statehouse, using the legislature’s chambers to talk about the climate crisis and solutions for their state. Participants in the Youth...
View ArticleRepublicans are Defining Foreign Interference Down
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is not a fool, but he seems to think that Americans—or at least Meet the Press viewers—are fools. Conservative outlets and pundits have long claimed that Ukrainian officials...
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The Man Behind the Right Wing’s Favorite Conspiracy Theories
No one is sure where President Trump got the idea that the Democratic National Committee’s hacked server was hidden in Ukraine. As the impeachment saga unfolds, even the president’s most ardent...
View ArticleAnother Bright Shining Lie
We had a system in Afghanistan when I was with the Army: “red, amber, green.” The particulars differed slightly from brigade to brigade—some used different fonts and colors to measure local gradations...
View ArticleHorowitz Report Won’t Deter Trumpworld’s Conspiratorial Frothing
President Donald Trump and his allies spent almost three years denouncing the Russia investigation as a sham. They claimed it was part of a political vendetta by angry Democrats and disaffected...
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Fighting Spirit
In 1925 in Berlin, Vladimir Nabokov participated in a literary evening for Russian émigrés living in the German capital; the topic of his talk was a recent boxing match he attended at the Berlin Sports...
View ArticleThe New Behemoths of Health Care Bureaucracy
What are the 10 biggest companies in the United States? Put that question to a group of younger people, and they’re likely to rattle off tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Older people...
View ArticleSweetgreen’s Soft Rebrand of the GoFundMe Crisis Model
Sweetgreen, as you may already know, sells expensive salads. Its schtick is fairly simple: Take lettuce and kale, put it in a bowl with some other stuff—maybe chicken, maybe tofu, maybe cranberries—and...
View ArticleThe Trump-Kim Bromance Is Over
The next crisis between the United States and North Korea is here. It began, as it always does, with Donald Trump’s and Kim Jong Un’s dueling egos, and it likely ends with Trump paying a price for his...
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