For a Glimpse of the Republican Party After Trump, Look to California
Republican prospects in November are so dire—with President Donald Trump trailing Joe Biden by about 10 points and Biden’s fellow Democrats projected to win a Senate majority and expand their House...
View ArticleEven Milton Friedman Would Oppose Trump’s Latest Federal Reserve Appointment
“It would be hard to pack more error into so few words.”—Milton Friedman, in 1994, commenting on an article by Judy Shelton supporting a gold standard.This week, the Senate is expected to take up the...
View ArticleFossil Fuels’ United Front Is Crumbling
It’s not a great month to be running a utility company. Last week, Ohio Republican House Speaker Larry Householder’s farm was raided as part of an FBI investigation into a $61 million conspiracy...
View ArticleThe Growing Fight Against the School Death Trap
A special education teacher at a public high school in Queens remembers a week in April when, almost every day, she learned another student at her school had lost a parent or grandparent to Covid-19....
View ArticleThe Lincoln Project Doesn’t Matter
On Friday, the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump conservative group, released two new ads both focused on President Trump’s recent comments about arrested Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who,...
View ArticleIt Was Insane to Restart Sports in America
For the sports-deprived American discontent with watching Premier League games, last week was something of a reprieve: The National Basketball Association, ensconced in its Orlando bubble, began...
View ArticleThe Bloody, Manufactured Crisis in Portland
The chaos on the streets of Portland, Oregon, where President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal agents has resulted in violent unrest, was made for TV—or, perhaps more accurately, for Twitter....
View ArticleZadie Smith Takes On the Pandemic
What have you done with your quarantine? Those of us who aren’t nurses find ourselves rich in time, and being dutiful citizens, we work: nurturing scallions in cups of water or Duolingo-ing our way to...
View ArticleIt’s Shaping Up to Be a Horrific Election Season for Republican Women
Running for Congress as a Republican woman has never been easy. In 2020, it must feel like someone put a hex on your campaign.Consider the current outlook in the U.S. Senate, a necessary and...
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When the Bad Guys Are Everywhere
It’s 1980, and Joe Cantamessa is dressed as a television repairman. He’s actually with the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino mob family and the New York City Mafia’s...
View ArticleThe Emperor’s New Tone
Last Friday was a momentous day in American politics. After months of doing everything he could to ignore the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and its profound impact on American life—and,...
View ArticleBill Barr Battles Democrats to a Draw
The House Judiciary Committee’s Democratic members spent more than a year trying to haul Attorney General Bill Barr into a hearing room. They had no shortage of topics to cover when he finally appeared...
View ArticleBetween Thomas Chatterton Williams and Me
A few weeks ago, we took a summer vacation on one of those island towns beloved by the East Coast elite. The stores and restaurants on Main Street had just emerged from the hibernation of lockdown....
View ArticleCongress Has the “Dumbest Idea Ever” for the Unemployed
Senate Republicans want to ditch the $600 weekly add-on to state unemployment benefits that they ratified in March to support laid-off workers through the Covid crisis. In its place, they’ve proposed a...
View ArticleThe Problem of the Not-Quite-One Percent
“We aren’t wealthy people with a very big Hamptons home, but it’s beautiful to us,” the owner of a rather large house in Southampton recently told The New York Times in an article on Manhattan...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Is Blowing Up Our Best Response to the Opioid Crisis
On Mondays, Dr. Kimberly Sue would see patients at a syringe service program on the Lower East Side in New York, prescribing medications like buprenorphine that treat opioid addiction. Other days, she...
View ArticleThe Worst Answer to Climate Anxiety: Wellness
The coronavirus turned the world inside out. Essential workers continued to report to duty, often at great personal risk. The rest of the United States was stuck indoors, with only the internet to...
View ArticleStop Fretting About Biden’s VP Choice
We are entering the silly season of vice presidential speculation, filled with ill-sourced rumors and Talmudic interpretations of what Joe Biden means every time he says that his running mate must be...
View ArticleMonopoly is Tyranny
The economy as we know it is populated by gigantic corporations, behemoths that have bought up not only their competition but also the businesses supplying or otherwise supporting them. Such monopolies...
View ArticleIvanka Trump’s Empty Spectacle on Violence Against Native Women
The picture tells a nice story: Ivanka Trump—smiling with a big golden key in hand—stands alongside assistant secretary for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney, Lower Sioux Indian Community Vice...
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