Some Rich People Are Hilariously Freaked Out About a Biden Presidency
“They think this is going to hell in a hand basket,” one financial adviser told Marketwatch this week, describing his conservative clients’ growing sense of impending doom. In an interview on Wednesday...
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The World Is Finally Ready for Beverly Glenn-Copeland
The composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland weaves his way toward the stage, so slight and unassuming that he is barely noticed by the hipsters thronging the bar. Dressed in a uniform of pressed chinos, neat...
View ArticleWeaken the Presidency—Even If Biden Wins
In earlier chapters of American history, bad presidents eventually led to good government. Andrew Johnson’s stupendous failures after the Civil War spurred Radical Republicans to take command of...
View ArticleThe Democrats Have a Dianne Feinstein Problem
As the first tantalizing tastes of autumn reach swampy Washington, Democrats in Congress are likely finding it hard to enjoy the cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes: Their next few months are going...
View ArticleUber and Lyft Are Charging Through Washington’s Revolving Door
On Labor Day, Uber released its first “climate assessment” report, admitting that the average trip taken on its service is 41 percent more carbon-intensive than a typical car ride. Two days later, Lyft...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Realism of The Comey Rule
Many of us like our fiction to be realistic, with plausible scenarios and nuanced, recognizably human protagonists—and meanwhile we like our nonfiction to be outlandish, full of absurd plot twists and...
View ArticleHow to Make Progressivism Mean Something Again
In his book The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, legal scholar and public policy analyst Ganesh Sitaraman writes the following: “When it is used today, ‘progressive’ is not usually thought of...
View ArticleSenate Republicans Have No Intention of Stopping Trump From Stealing the...
Thursday was the kind of day that many Beltway reporters have spent four years dreaming about: Democrats and Republicans came together to tell Donald Trump that he had gone too far. The bipartisan...
View ArticleWhy the Squad Voted Against Pelosi’s Energy Bill
If you’re like most people, you probably missed the news Thursday evening that the House had passed H.R. 4447, the Clean Energy Jobs and Innovation Act. The nearly 900-page piece of legislation itself...
View ArticleGiving People Money in a Pandemic Worked. Now Give Them More.
At first glance, there was something slightly counterintuitive in the Federal Reserve Board’s most recent report on the economic well-being of American households. In July—at the height of the pandemic...
View ArticleCan the Census Be Saved in Indian Country?
On Thursday evening, United States District Judge Lucy Koh issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Census Bureau to continue its fieldwork through October 31. It was a dramatic turn in what has...
View ArticleThe Suitors Demand an Audience
Tell them to keep their eyes, their brawn, the tentacles of their need sticking to my skin. Their bluff and bluster. Poisoned tongues saying thirst as spell, hips as prophecy. I’m loomed together,...
View ArticleMorning
Under a canopy skya man settles down a plastic apron on.As the train slips away evenly, a ghost is left back on the tracks, I open the window, glance into the courtyard, at the statue of Kirov. The...
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Amy Coney Barrett Wants Felons to Have Guns, But Not Votes
Like other journalists, I spent the bulk of this past week reviewing the writings and opinions of Amy Coney Barrett, who became President Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee on Saturday. Her...
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The Vampire Ship
On April 28, 2014, a fishing trawler intercepted an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, a day after the tanker had left Dubai for Greece. Three men climbed aboard the tanker and spent the night packing...
View ArticleBig Banks Cratered the Economy. Now They Swear They’ll Fix It.
In 2005, long before Occupy Wall Street, the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, or Bernie Sanders’s bid for the presidency, Citigroup released a report that outlined...
View Article“Just the Hint of Something Coming Here Terrorizes You”
On September 4, 2017, Hurricane Irma became the first Category 5 hurricane of the season, with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour at its peak. The storm slammed into Cudjoe Key, Florida, as a...
View ArticleHow Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw Over Workers
I recently wrote about the pernicious effect of Milton Friedman’s idea that public corporations should focus exclusively on shareholders, ignoring the interests of other stakeholders including...
View ArticleTrump Lies, and the Media Abides
Whenever I mix up words or forget what I was trying to say, I make fun of myself by saying “words are my craft, you know.” It’s funny because it’s true: I have one job, and it is to use words well,...
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