Grassroots Democrats Are Preparing to Swarm the Biden Administration
For the last few months, a team on Joe Biden’s campaign has been drawing up plans for the transition, compiling lists, and vetting potential appointees. Meanwhile, a network of left-wing organizers,...
View ArticleThe Whole World Is on the Ballot
Every morning, I wake up to the sound of a new nail thudding into the coffin of yet another institution of U.S. democracy. From the craven and brazen police violence this summer to the sitting...
View ArticleBrett Kavanaugh Will Have His Revenge on America
Two years ago, Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend himself against allegations of sexual misconduct. He lashed out at Democrats, left-wing activists, and...
View ArticleThis Presidency Is Bad for Your Health
It’s a cliché at this point, but imagine being told 10 years ago that the final weeks of the 2020 election campaign would feature President Donald Trump telling enthusiastic supporters at campaign...
View ArticleGetting Out the Vote in the Maze of Mass Incarceration
For the people trying to get out the vote in jails across the United States, there are no doors to knock, no sidewalks to canvass from. The people they are trying to reach may not even know they have...
View ArticleCar Companies Have Been Knowingly Screwing the Planet for Half a Century
At this point, you have to wonder which heavily polluting industries didn’t know about climate change half a century ago. This week, E&E News published a months-long investigation showing that Ford...
View ArticlePandemic Fatigue Is Just Exhaustion in the Face of a Failed State
The coronavirus is once again on the rise in the United States, but panic over the recent record surge in infections and hospitalizations is another thing entirely. Pandemic fatigue, The Wall Street...
View ArticleBeltway Lobbyists Are Clutching Their Pearls Over Biden’s Ethics Reforms
If the polls are any guide, then change could soon be afoot in Washington, D.C., in the form of an incoming Biden administration tasked with the challenge of rebooting an administrative state that’s...
View ArticleA Mission to Expose Far-Right Hate
There is a long and noble tradition in this country of journalists going undercover to expose the far right. More than a century ago, Walter White—a Black man so light-skinned he could easily pass for...
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The Myths Fueling Today’s Armed Right
The 13 men charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer called themselves the Wolverine Watchmen, a possible reference to the white supremacist vigilante militia in the HBO series...
View ArticleDonald Trump Doesn’t Have a Second Act
Here we finally are—on the cusp of what, after many false alarms, really might be the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s presidency. But given ample reasons to remain uneasy about what will happen...
View ArticleWhat Will the Lincoln Project Do After Trump?
The Lincoln Project is betting that anti-Trumpism can outlast Donald Trump’s presidency. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the group of ad-making former Republicans “is weighing offers from different...
View ArticleAre You Fracking Kidding Me, Trump?
Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, is mulling an executive order to make federal agencies perform an economic analysis of fracking—on the theory, presumably, that there’s no...
View ArticleDon’t Let Miles Taylor Get Away With Being a Fraud
The last four years have provided us with a number of tantalizing mysteries. Just how many Melania Trumps are there? Who was White House Covid-19 patient zero? What, exactly, is going on with George...
View ArticleThe Deradicalization of Supreme Court Reform
For most of the last 80 years, court-packing was a historical footnote for high-school students who learned about the New Deal era. The idea that the Supreme Court, still clinging to the glow of its...
View ArticleElection Season Is Wildfire Season. These Voters Lost Everything.
For 13 years, Erica Ramírez lived with her children in a house in Medford, Oregon, a small city in the southwestern corner of the state. It was a modest two-bedroom, painted blue with white accents....
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Celia Paul Redefines the Artist’s Model
A woman sprawls on a bed, the suggestion of a wall behind her. With her left hand, she cups her left breast, while the right falls free. Her eyes are turned toward the pillow. Her strong thighs don’t...
View ArticleWill Airbnb Do to Small Towns What It Did to New York and Barcelona?
In August, despite a global pandemic that had caused a nosedive in travel revenue, Airbnb filed initial public offering paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In an interview with CNBC,...
View ArticleBiden’s Health Care Plan Is Somehow Still a Mystery
Here is a disclaimer for any omnipotent force that is reading this post: By writing about what might happen under a Biden presidency, I am in no way predicting the results of Tuesday’s election. I am...
View ArticleHow the Stock Market Betrayed Donald Trump
There’s gratitude for you. You halve corporate taxes and slash regulations indiscriminately, and Wall Street thanks you by going haywire less than a week before you’re up for reelection.“Stock market...
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