Can Platform Vaccines Really Save Us?
In April 2009, a new type of influenza began spreading through the American West: H1N1, or swine flu. Vaccine developers had been preparing for a moment like this after several deadly flu pandemics in...
View ArticleKick Kelly Loeffler Out of the WNBA
Last fall, only a handful of people had reason to regularly think about Kelly Loeffler, then a cryptocurrency executive and hands-off owner of the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Atlanta...
View ArticleAlexander Lukashenko’s Belarusian Dictatorship Is Going Down in Flames
For the so-called “last dictator in Europe,” August may mark the last month of his reign. On Sunday, Belarus–overseen for over a quarter-century by a brutal imbecile named Alexander Lukashenko–hosted...
View ArticleA Radical Movement to Take Back Our Cities
The New York City subway system makes an announcement at every stop: “Please step aside, and let the customers off the train first.” The public transit riders, the city insists, are customers before...
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How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment
In 1979, Barry Goldwater turned to his diary to register a change in the nation’s politics. “Today as I sit in the Senate,” he wrote, “it is interesting to me to watch liberals, moderates, and...
View ArticleIs the Media About to Screw Up Coverage of Biden’s Vice Presidential Pick?
Donald Trump’s attacks on Joe Biden aren’t working. The president has sought to portray Biden as a closet Antifa member out to abolish everything: the police, the suburbs, god. Those attacks aren’t...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Is a Perfect Time to Soak the Rich
Last week, while as many as 25 million laid-off workers lost their weekly $600 federal unemployment supplement and Congress bickered over government aid for people cut off from their income, Amazon...
View ArticleThe Pioneering Morality of Raven Leilani’s Luster
Edie, the 23-year-old resident of a mouse-infested Bushwick walkup and the narrator of Raven Leilani’s debut novel Luster, has an editorial position at a children’s book publisher until she loses it by...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Bond Between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
What many forget about Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign was that, for the most part, she was a happy warrior. Sure, her slash-and-burn attack on Joe Biden over busing in their first debate last...
View ArticleWe Can’t Fight Climate Change Without China
As lawmakers bickered over the next stimulus package in late July, the Democratic Party unveiled an election 2020 draft platform suggesting an unusual amount of bipartisan unity on one issue: China....
View ArticleTrump’s “Blasphemous” Attacks on Biden Were Torn From the Republican Hymnal
Trump’s latest slate of rhetorical outrages began with an interview with Geraldo Rivera on Thursday, during which he made a largely faith-based case against Joe Biden. “I’m in favor of the Bible, I’m...
View ArticleThe Women Who Still Can’t Vote
As we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment this month, it’s tempting to assume that women’s suffrage is complete. Yet millions of women—because they are incarcerated or on...
View ArticleMillionaire Coaches and Republican Blowhards Have Derailed the Fight for...
It doesn’t take much to defang a movement. Last week, a group of college athletes in the Pac-12 Conference released a list of demands to create an equitable work environment. The list included the...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Coded Message to White-Nationalist “Accelerationists”
Even as his campaign stumbles through these bleak late-summer months, beset by a nationwide health and economic crisis that’s largely of his own making, President Donald Trump is blowing full-bore on...
View ArticleA Government Too Broken to Write $600 Checks
As July ended, the Department of Commerce announced that the economy had contracted by nearly a third; the Department of Labor reported that 1.43 million Americans had lost their jobs. And shortly...
View ArticleIf Donald Trump Can’t Make History, He’ll Steal It Instead
Abraham Lincoln argued that what the Union had achieved at Gettysburg would resonate throughout American history and that no flesh-and-blood mortal had the power to diminish it. “In a larger sense, we...
View ArticleJared Kushner, Deputy Assistant Ratfucker
After donning a flak jacket and working vainly for nearly four years on Mideast peace, the opioid crisis, the federal bureaucracy, the criminal justice system, the second Great Depression, the novel...
View ArticleThe Inevitability of Defending Henry Kissinger
Barry Gewen introduces his study of Henry Kissinger, The Inevitability of Tragedy, with an anecdote that may be more telling than he intended. “A couple of years ago, I was having dinner with a...
View ArticleSelf-Interest, Wrongly Understood
Back in April, when New York City was the epicenter of the Covid-19 crisis, The New York Times’ Bret Stephens published a column entitled “New York Rules Can’t Apply to All.” The inset quote that...
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Fear of a Black Uprising
The summer of 2020 will be recorded as a once-in-a-generation uprising against police brutalization of Black people. The multiracial protests that erupted in all 50 states seemed to break the...
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