The Real Legacy of a Demagogue
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a Spanish Civil War veteran from Florida named John Hovan enlisted in the Navy, serving for three and a half years before he received an honorable discharge. After...
View ArticleThe Anti-Filibuster Armies Are Mounting Up
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has, unsurprisingly, intensified conversations in Democratic circles about the structural obstacles that a Biden presidency would inevitably face. Whether or...
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The Real Deep State Is Trump
The specter of deep state conspiracies against President Trump has long been a key rhetorical and political weapon in the arsenal of the Trump White House. Trump and his loyal enablers have deployed...
View ArticleDemocrats Have a Chance to Hit Trump on Jobs
According to Friday’s official jobs report—the last one that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release before November’s election—the economy added around 661,000 jobs in September. Since...
View ArticleOf Course Donald Trump Got Covid-19
Two days ago, standing on the debate stage with Joe Biden, President Trump repeatedly downplayed the severity of Covid-19. He blew past the fact that more than 200,000 Americans have died from the...
View ArticleThe President and His Country Club Pals Still Have the Best Defense Against...
Just a few days ago, Trump flashily procured a mask from his jacket pocket during his debate with Biden to indicate his openness to wearing one. “I put a mask on when I think I need it,” he said...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have to Pray for Trump
Late Thursday evening, President Trump (or possibly NBA reporter Shams Charania) broke the news that both he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus.The ramifications...
View ArticleTrump’s History of Deception Magnifies the Chaos of His Covid-19 Diagnosis
Here’s what we know so far: President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday. He’s experiencing “mild” symptoms, according to the White House, though these were apparently...
View ArticleTrump’s “Greatest Recovery in History” Is Wheezing Out
The president was in denial, and now his sunny assessment of the situation is disproven.No, I’m not talking about the news that President Donald Trump and the first lady tested positive for Covid-19...
View ArticleBiden Should Be Worried
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered a typically over-the-top boast during his debate against Joe Biden: “I’m the one that brought back football.” He must have been yearning for a return...
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How Wisconsin Became a Bastion of White Supremacy
On the night of October 23, 2004, Milwaukee police officer Andrew Spengler hosted a housewarming party. Katie Brown and Kirsten Antonissen brought two friends of their own: Frank Jude Jr., who is...
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How a Radical Black Tradition Could Buoy Biden in Michigan
In an expansive lot in northwest Detroit, at the corner of 6 Mile and San Juan, roughly 100 people gathered on a Sunday afternoon in August for a pair of events. The first was an “All Black Lives...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Protect Immigrants From the Whims of Politics
Unlike criminal or civil courts, our nation’s immigration courts are housed under the Department of Justice. And so the decisions and operations of these courts are subject to the whims of politics....
View ArticlePopulism Is the Key to Climate Action
Forty-nine percent of West Virginians are “worried” about global warming, and 64 percent think citizens should be doing more to address it. That’s in the state that’s least worried about climate...
View ArticleThe Right’s Farcical Denial of Systemic Racism
Lately, right-wingers have been on something of a tear denying the existence of “systemic racism.” Harvard government professor Harvey Mansfield, writing on the conservative Wall Street Journal op-ed...
View ArticleIs Donald Trump Dying?
To hear it from the president’s physicians, Donald Trump is probably the healthiest hospitalized Covid-19 patient in America. He may be on a regimen of heavy-duty drugs, but he is barely symptomatic....
View ArticleWould the GOP Use Trump’s Covid Diagnosis to Start a War?
One of the funniest responses to the president’s announcement that he had tested positive for the coronavirus was assuredly not meant to be laughed at. Florida Senator Marco Rubio issued a stern...
View ArticleHow the EPA Is Screwing Oklahoma’s Tribes
Jim Inhofe might be best known as the dipshit who brought a snowball to the floor of Congress as “proof” that climate change is not real. But the Republican senator from Oklahoma is no fool.In 2005,...
View ArticleThe Paradox of the Burmese Python
Samantha Smith first encountered PYBI029 in January 2019 after a farmer traced her tracks in the ash of a recently burned agricultural field on the outskirts of Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, in Thailand....
View ArticleClaudia Rankine Has a Few Questions
In her newest book, Claudia Rankine takes on the oldest question in politics: How ought we to live together? Just Us completes Rankine’s trilogy of works on race in the United States, following Don’t...
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