The Most Popular Crook in America
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan repeatedly steered state transportation development money to projects that would increase the value of his real estate holdings, according to a lengthy investigation by...
View ArticleBefore the U.S. Bombed Soleimani’s Terrorists, It Bribed Them
On January 3, shortly after killing Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah commander Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis with a drone strike, the United States also reportedly targeted Shubul Al...
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Culture War in the Workplace
The proceedings began with three fast, muted raps on the door. Layleen Cubilette-Polanco’s family and friends, joined by many, many people who’d never even met her, filled every row in the small,...
View ArticleThe Billionaire Grifter’s Threat to Democracy
Remember how 2018 was the year of the grifter? We were inundated with juicy stories of amazing con artists, from Anna Delvey’s rich girl scam to Elizabeth Holmes’s other rich girl scam. The summer of...
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How Crystal Eastman Fought for Equality
Who gets remembered, who gets lionized, in the history of leftist politics? Amy Aronson’s new biography of the feminist socialist reformer Crystal Eastman—the first full-length treatment of her...
View ArticleThe NFL Owners’ Unyielding Commitment to White Coaches
The Rooney Rule, a policy that requires any team in the National Football League to interview at least one diverse candidate for any open head coach or senior executive position, was introduced in...
View ArticleWhy Climate Denial Survives While Australia Burns
In April last year, 22 former fire and emergency chiefs from across Australia issued a statement just before a federal election, calling on Australia’s two major political parties—one of them likely to...
View ArticleToward a Working-Class Anti-War Movement
On the eve of what was ludicrously called Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was a teenager in Boise, Idaho, protesting in front of the state Capitol with the Idaho Green Party, a scattering of mostly Gen X...
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A Clear Menace
Minneapolis’s new football stadium could have avoided murdering hundreds of birds. The City Council voted to construct it from special glass coated in a film that birds can see. Unfortunately for the...
View ArticleDon’t Count Elizabeth Warren Out
Elizabeth Warren still bounds on stage at campaign events like she just heard the starter pistol, often shouting “Woo-hoo” for emphasis. She still has the most compelling stump speech of anyone in the...
View ArticleThe Plot to Level the Administrative State
The nondelegation doctrine, unlike most legal concepts, is less boring than it sounds. After the 1930s, it became constitutional esoterica, a relic of a bygone age in which the Supreme Court resisted...
View ArticleFast Furniture Is an Environmental Fiasco
Each year, Americans throw out more than 12 million tons of furniture and furnishings, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Only a small percentage is recycled, thanks to the diversity of...
View ArticleWorking Less Is a Labor Issue, Too
Sometimes he says, “If you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty,” and sometimes it’s, “People who work 40 hours a week should not be living in poverty,” but Bernie Sanders’s basic...
View ArticleCNN Unleashes Another Exercise in Diminishing Marginal Utility
The questions that have featured in this season of Democratic debates have alternated between infuriating and disappointing. Millions have watched as the media asks, on behalf of the American people,...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Has Finally Got Republicans’ Attention
Bernie Sanders is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. It is true that the primary has entered a stage where the standings could become very fluid, very quickly. It is also the case that...
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The Loneliness of the Resistance Protester
The 2014 movie Pride tells the story of the 1984 coal miners’ strike in England and the unlikely partnership that grows between a group of radical gay and lesbian activists from London who organized in...
View ArticleIn Les Misérables, the Song Remains the Same
Emmett Till’s mother thought that if we saw pictures of her son’s corpse we’d be galvanized into action. She could not have foreseen the surveillance hall of mirrors in which we now find ourselves:...
View ArticleThe Perils of Going Negative
Julián Castro roamed the Spin Room after Thursday night’s debate like Banquo’s ghost.The former presidential candidate, who has quickly morphed into an enthusiastic pitchman for Elizabeth Warren,...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking Prevention Month Is a Dangerous Joke
A partially nude young woman, covering herself with a bright red pillow, is cowering in the corner of a bedroom. Two officers in uniforms reading “Police” and “HSI” approach her, and one reaches out a...
View ArticleThere’s Still So Much We Don’t Know About Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
All of the pieces are finally in place for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi named a slate of seven managers—House members who will act as prosecutors...
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