The Radicalism of Warren’s Unapologetic Aggression
Mike Bloomberg has proposed to buy American votes with $400 million (and counting) in advertisements. Elizabeth Warren walked onto Wednesday’s debate stage proposing to buy American votes with the body...
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Finding Carson McCullers
“I have read enough biographies,” Jenn Shapland writes early in her new book, “to know, in no uncertain terms, that they are built of artifice and lies. I am not a fiction writer, and this is not a...
View ArticleThe Troubling Obsession With Political “Tribalism”
Since Donald Trump’s election, political commentators have bemoaned how polarized American politics has become—how angry, how uncivil, how tribal. A few years ago, NYU business professor Jonathan Haidt...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Silly Attempt to Boost a Liberal Candidate
Politico readers learned two interesting things this week. One: A prominent political scientist is making a novel argument that elections are won not by persuading swing-voting independents but by...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Is No Donald Trump
As a general rule, people do not compare other people to Donald Trump as a compliment. It is plainly rude to tell another person that you see even trace amounts of Trump in them, but more to the point...
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The Modern World Disappoints Ross Douthat
That the world is a mess is a proposition with which the left and the right can both agree. Conservatives look around and see a heathen culture degraded by “cultural Marxism” and the tyranny of social...
View ArticleLet the Boy Scouts Die Out, Already
I was an active Boy Scout as a teenager because I had strong motivation: getting myself the hell out of the Scouting movement. It was a cultural rite and a family thing, one I hated—but the rule was...
View ArticleTrump’s Ego Is Causing a National Security Nightmare
It can be difficult to discern what passes for thought in Donald Trump’s mind, but on the matter of Russian election interference he is refreshingly clear. He sees Russia’s attempts to help him win the...
View ArticleThere Are Worse Things to Fear Than an Electoral College Tie
On Thursday, Quinnipiac University released a series of polls on presidential head-to-head match-ups in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. President Donald Trump narrowly won all three of those...
View ArticleThe Police Knew Her. She Says They Still Didn’t Care She Was Raped.
Clarice Hardy couldn’t remember much about that night in March 2017, except that she felt “woozy” at the local bar where she had been hanging out. She didn’t know how she got home, just that she got...
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A World to Win
J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph Stalin shared one passionately held belief: that “socialism” denoted the one-party dictatorship in Moscow and its satellites. The fact that this dictatorship would have been...
View ArticleBeware a Bezos Bearing Gifts
Beyond a vaguely worded Instagram post, we don’t know much about how Jeff Bezos will spend the $10 billion he recently pledged to climate action through the Bezos Earth Fund. The richest man on the...
View ArticleTrump’s Xenophobia Could Create a Public Health Crisis
On Monday, after years of speculation, court injunctions, and false starts, the Trump administration will finally put into effect its so-called public charge rule. The new program, which was greenlit...
View ArticleThe Planet Is Screwed, Says Bank That Screwed the Planet
JP Morgan Chase is the world’s leading financer of fossil fuel projects. And according to a report from within the company, recently leaked to the press, the world is seriously underestimating the...
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What’s the Matter With Men?
Years ago, my husband and I were seated at a restaurant beside two other men. They didn’t seem to be a couple (gays can usually tell), or brothers, or colleagues; they ate in companionable enough...
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How Business Schools Fail Up
“The higher educational system of the industrial society,” University of California president Clark Kerr wrote in 1960, stresses the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, managerial training… There...
View ArticleWill the Democrats’ Russia Obsession Hurt Bernie Sanders?
Robert O’Brien, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to make the case that Russia had a new best friend in American politics. While he had not “seen...
View ArticleThe Still Incomplete Case Against Harvey Weinstein
While more than 90 women have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, the Manhattan trial that concluded on Monday concerned his conduct with three women: Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, and...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Playing a Perilous Game With Data
The whole point of an election is to know who got the most votes. This matter wasn’t quickly resolved in this month’s Iowa caucuses. A cascade of failures and errors by the Iowa Democratic Party...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Has Made a Hash of His Castro Flap
Earlier this week, after he’d become the presumptive frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders slipped and fell face-first on a series of comments he’d made when he was decades...
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