Has the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse?
The Bear fire was one of the largest of the over 8,000 wildfires that have beset California this year. Now incorporated into the still-burning North Complex Fire, the Bear started in the Plumas...
View ArticleJoe Biden and the Return of the Dreaded Bipartisan Commission
Joe Biden finally has a court-packing answer—sort of. After dodging the question of what he would do about the Supreme Court, he told CBS’s Norah O’Donnell he would create a “bipartisan commission” to...
View ArticleThe Bernie Organizers Who Want to Elect Biden—Then Defeat Him
“I get it,” Mondaire Jones says into the camera, shaking his head. He is speaking on a Thursday night four weeks out from the election, to the virtual audience of a virtual rally hosted by Our...
View ArticleDon’t Reboot the 2016 Horror Show
More than 200,000 lives lost in the United States, and counting. The worst economic downturn of the century. Armed gunmen invading state legislative sessions. Journalists beaten by police officers....
View ArticleThe Justice Department’s Very Convenient Corporate Crackdown
Just two weeks before the election, the Justice Department rolled out a series of high-profile white-collar cases and settlements that include an antitrust complaint against Google, a settlement with...
View ArticleInstead of Reengineering Cows, Just Eat Less Meat
The United States has a meat problem. The average American will eat about 220 pounds of meat this year, including around 60 pounds of beef. The cattle needed to support that consumption require vast...
View ArticleHow to Steal an Election
We never left. There are the little signs. The fact that everyone on every social media platform seems to have the same gif of Bugs Bunny sawing away the peninsula at the ready. The fact that the...
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The Legend of Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper will be the next governor of North Carolina.That’s exactly the kind of declarative boast that would never come from the careful Cooper. Yet, as of the fourth week of October, the Democratic...
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The Future of the Democratic Party Is in Pennsylvania
The natural geography of Pennsylvania is not extraordinary. Its major cities are situated near rivers, and it has mountains and miles of punishing greenness. As a shape, Pennsylvania is a rectangle,...
View ArticleDoctors Are Appalled by White House’s “Barbaric” New Coronavirus Strategy
There are two things to understand about the “herd immunity” strategy the White House has reportedly “embraced” in the past month. The first is that the term, which originally referred to the...
View ArticleScott Pruitt Was Even More Selfish and Vengeful Than We Thought
When former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned in July 2018 amid a flurry of ethics scandals, he had already weathered months of inquiries into inappropriate use of the...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Familiar, Troubling Plan to Torpedo Biden’s Presidency
Like a phoenix, the deficit hawk will be back soon enough, as soon as it is politically convenient.—Glenn Kessler, Washington Post fact-checker, October 17, 2020My party is very interested in deficits...
View ArticleBob Murray Was Vicious to Both Workers and the Environment
Fossil fuel interests have long argued that environmental rules kill jobs. Not having such rules, though, kills people. And that’s particularly clear when it comes to the coal industry.Bob Murray, the...
View ArticleBlue States Suppress the Vote, Too
Standing in front of a gaggle of press on a New York City sidewalk, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez assessed the situation playing out during the city’s first three days of early voting in the...
View ArticleAmy Coney Barrett Will Upend American Life as We Know It
There was never much doubt that the Republican-led Senate would confirm Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. In the immediate wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last month, some...
View ArticleThe Ballot Initiative That Could Change How You Think About Defunding the Police
Something shifted in the weeks following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, or at least it felt that way. Calls to defund the police rang out in protests across the country and...
View ArticleCan a Black Novelist Write Autofiction?
Quick: What names come to mind when you hear the term “autofiction”? Let me guess, you’re probably thinking about Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ben Lerner, and Sheila Heti, among a few others. I’ve...
View ArticleWill The Wall Street Journal Be Destroyed by its Opinion Section?
Last week, amid a torrent of bad press, President Trump teased one story as a game-changer. “The Wall Street Journal is working on a very, very important piece, which should be very good,” he said on a...
View ArticleWe Can’t Trust Cops to Protect the Polls
Police are struggling “to protect voters and avoid intimidation at the polls,” The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, by which they meant that at least some of the law enforcement officers they spoke...
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How Don Jr. Became the Future of Trumpism
It is someone’s birthday, and everybody is dressed up. At the business end of an expansive buffet, an exhausted lump of beef perspires as if under great duress beneath a heat lamp; a man in a chef’s...
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