The Selling of the Democratic Primary
The Democratic Party has a monopoly on a product known as the “primary season” that is very much in demand. Like any good monopolist, they are milking their captive audience (Democrats) for all they’re...
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Hate Is on the Ballot
On election night 2018, newly re-gaveled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presided over a celebratory press conference after the Democratic Party’s recapture of a majority in the U.S. House of...
View ArticleWe’re All on This Sick Planet Together
Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control warned that the United States should brace itself for a widespread outbreak of the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19. “It’s not so much of a question of if...
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Mike Bloomberg’s Identity Politics
Mike Bloomberg is a boss, and he’s got the hat to prove it. Ahead of the South Carolina primary, for which he will not be on the ballot, and the ensuing Super Tuesday elections, for which he will,...
View ArticleWhy Warren Is Out for Bloomberg’s Blood
Among the many ways the pundit class has sought to understand the Democratic primary field, from its early overpopulated days to the substantially winnowed group of contenders we have now, the most...
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How Insulin Became the Poster Child for Medicare for All
Nicole Smith-Holt, a college financial aid specialist in Richfield, Minnesota, got the call on a Tuesday in June 2017. Her son Alec had been found alone in his new apartment, slumped over and ice-cold....
View ArticleWhen “Meatless Mondays” Aren’t Enough
One might read a piece in the New York Times Food section about the difficulties of obtaining ethically and responsibly sourced shrimp, then find links to shrimp recipes beneath it. The national...
View ArticleWhy the New Right Loves Nootropics
A class of supplements bills itself as neuroenhancers or nootropics—compounds you don’t need a prescription for that promise to augment your mental functioning without side effects. A notable subset of...
View ArticleBernie’s Boring Path to Victory
There’s been much debate since the Iowa caucus about the extent to which Bernie Sanders has delivered on the promise that his campaign would inspire record-breaking levels of turnout and engagement...
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How Far Left Should a Millennial Be?
Liberals have never quite known what to make of those who are far to their left. Conservatives tend to conflate liberals and leftists so often that many who fit under the broad Democratic umbrella have...
View ArticleWelcome to the Mean Tweets Primary
This week, a regional field director for the Bernie Sanders campaign was fired for tweets that demeaned—acidly and in the extremely online parlance of cruel detachment—the current crop of Democratic...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Is Trump’s Worst Nightmare
Donald Trump is not known for his steely calm. In the face of a seemingly endless string of legal scrapes and existential crises—impeachment, a special counsel investigation, a potentially mortifying...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Could Spring an Abortion Rights Trap
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in its first major abortion case in four years. The case, June Medical Services v. Russo, is not a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade or Planned...
View ArticleDeb Haaland Shouldn’t Have to Fight This Hard
On Wednesday, the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States convened to discuss the destruction of sacred sites along the border. Ned Norris Jr., chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation,...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Is Winning His War on Cable News
There’s little love for Bernie Sanders on the television news circuit. After his landslide win in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, MSNBC host Chris Matthews compared the victory to Nazi Germany’s successful...
View ArticleThe Good Internet Lives On
Wikipedia is now such a ubiquitous part of online life that it’s hard to remember how strange the project seemed at first. I was a freshman in college in 2000, when Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger...
View ArticleAt CPAC, the Socialists Are Coming to Get You
The Conservative Political Action Conference, a multiday annual event held just outside Washington that brings together conservative activists and students from around the country, has always been more...
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Faith Militant
The confident jargon of the corporate workplace almost always carries with it a hidden agenda, to be sprung on a beleaguered (if not exactly unsuspecting) workforce. When you hear a phrase like...
View ArticleNationalizing the Power Industry Isn’t Radical
During his CNN Town Hall last week, hedge fund billionaire and trailing presidential hopeful Tom Steyer added his voice to an increasingly common refrain from fellow billionaire candidate Mike...
View ArticleLena Waithe Insists on Irreverence
When the pilot presentation for Twenties, a show about a group of twentysomething black women trying to make it in Hollywood, first appeared on YouTube in 2013, Lena Waithe wanted to make sure we all...
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