The 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 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 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 ArticleCriticizing Michael Bloomberg in an Age of Anti-Semitism
In October 2018, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy took to Twitter to denounce Michael Bloomberg, the New York billionaire who had poured $80 million into the Democratic fight to retake the House of...
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...
View ArticleA Whiff of Weimar
Thuringia lies at the geographic heart of Germany. It is where Bach was born, where Goethe wrote Faust, where Martin Luther was ordained as a monk. Germany’s first democratic constitution was adopted...
View ArticleThe War on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Goes to Court
For Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Super Tuesday could mark a turning point in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. It may also be a pivotal day for her greatest...
View Article60 Minutes Celebrates a War Criminal
Last weekend, for the first time ever, a long-term cease-fire deal in America’s longest-ever war went into effect. But on Sunday evening, viewers of 60 Minutes, America’s premier weekly news digest,...
View ArticleConservatives’ Coronavirus Denial Is Going to Get People Killed
Last week, at long last, the United States woke up to the threat of a global pandemic. The stock market tanked, as investors began to doubt the Trump administration’s ability to handle the coronavirus....
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Nominations Game Finally Backfired
A strange habit in President Donald Trump’s administration is the abundance of “acting” officials. Other presidents typically send major nominations to the Senate as quickly as possible so they can be...
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Life in China During the Coronavirus Lockdown
An estimated 10 million people live in Zhengzhou. But lately, the streets have been empty, resembling frames from a postapocalyptic movie.The city already felt different at the end of January, when the...
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Is the iPhone a Work of Art?
The Bauhaus, open for less than a decade and a half, was one of those rare influential failures. It was like the Velvet Underground, the band that inspired all of its fans to start bands of their own....
View ArticleChris Matthews Was Everything Wrong With Cable News
Chris Matthews’s abrupt resignation on Monday night shouldn’t have come as a surprise. He had spent the last two weeks doing the cable television equivalent of Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes—comparing...
View ArticleA Virus Is Not a Messaging Problem
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informed President Donald Trump that coronavirus was spreading within the United States between people who had no history of international...
View ArticleBon Appétit Test Kitchen Is a Green New Deal Fantasy
Between a seemingly endless election season, potential global pandemic, and looming climate catastrophe, these are stressful times. If you’ve wandered onto the internet seeking an easy hit of serotonin...
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