Philadelphia’s Election Results Are a Warning to the Democratic Party
Throughout this election cycle, pundits and Electoral College–watchers trained their gaze on Pennsylvania, singling it out as the state that would likely determine the winner of the presidency. And as...
View ArticleSamuel Alito Is Tired of Winning
An inescapable risk in writing about current events is that they have the tendency to swiftly overtake the last thing you wrote. On Thursday afternoon, I filed an article explaining why the Supreme...
View ArticleThe Brewing Democratic Fight Over Biden’s Cabinet
There was a moment this summer when Joe Biden’s promise to deliver an “FDR-size” presidency was almost credible. Desperate to shore up his support from dejected Bernie voters and galvanized by Covid-19...
View ArticleWhy Attack on Titan Is the Alt-Right’s Favorite Manga
Isayama Hajime worked nights at an internet café. He found the customers strange and often frightening. Many wandered around aimlessly, struggled to communicate, were drunk and belligerent. Inspired by...
View ArticleDon’t Blame the Left for the Democrats’ Losses
The fight over who and what’s to blame for Democratic underperformance down ballot in the 2020 election is proceeding, for the most part, as though the election never really happened. The arguments...
View ArticleCan Biden Keep His Promise to Make Farms Climate Friendly?
Last month, when asked on Pod Save America to name three or four things atop his first-term agenda, Joe Biden mentioned a surprising topic: farm policy. “I know it’s boring as hell, but it’s...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Obamacare Bait and Switch
Immediately after the conclusion of Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments concerning the bid of 18 red-state attorneys general, backed by the Trump administration, to strike the Affordable Care Act down in...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Is Dead. It’s the Trump Cult Now.
Donald Trump is the past, present, and future of the Republican Party. And that is because the GOP is no longer a traditional political party designed to win elections so that it can enact a policy...
View ArticleBlue States Will Have to Lead the Climate Fight Under Biden, Too
Donald Trump’s election was a near-apocalyptic moment for many in the climate movement. The 2016 election took place during the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, where advocates,...
View Article“This Is Not a Silver Bullet for the Pandemic”
Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their vaccine is more than 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, which was followed on Monday by Moderna declaring that its vaccine is 94.5 percent...
View ArticleKristi Noem’s War on Tribal Sovereignty Is Going to Get People Killed
South Dakota currently ranks second in the nation for Covid-19 cases, and first in hospitalizations. On Saturday, the state reported its highest daily death total of the year. Yet, as of writing,...
View ArticleCharles Koch Got the Free-Market Dystopia He Wanted. Now He’d Like Your...
Billionaire Charles Koch—who, alongside his late brother, is best known for funding a host of conservative and libertarian think tanks, donating lavishly to Republicans, and otherwise flooding the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Versus the Coronavirus
Among the major issues that the Supreme Court could weigh in on over the next few months is the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly a quarter-million Americans since March and now rages...
View ArticleThe Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Put Japan’s Climate Policy in a Decade-Long...
The Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in Okuma, Japan, on March 11, 2011, was one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Some of the impacts can be easily quantified: 150,000 people were evacuated due to...
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The Littlest Prince
Donald Trump’s presidency could only ever have ended one way, but there was still a certain flubby majesty to how it happened. As the outcome of the election became clearer and more irrefutable—as the...
View ArticleBarack Obama, Media Critic
As his feud with Fox News has intensified—and as his pathetic attempt to overturn a legitimate election becomes more harebrained—Donald Trump has drifted further and further into the fringes. Newsmax...
View ArticleBanal Smartphone Apps Are the New Surveillance State
In 2012, Factual, a Los Angeles–based technology company, had world-conquering ambitions. Intoxicated by the utopian rhetoric surrounding the growing field of big data, it planned to collect...
View ArticleScott Atlas, Star Disciple in Trump’s Covid Death Cult
On Sunday, as Covid-19 cases in Michigan surged, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a new set of temporary restrictions on certain indoor gatherings and activities. The three-week pandemic order will...
View ArticleTranscript: Joe Biden’s Cabinet
A transcript of Episode 20 of The Politics of Everything, “Fantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet.” Alex Pareene: I’m Alex Pareene. I’m a staff writer at The New Republic.Laura Marsh: And I’m Laura...
View ArticleFantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet
Who should President-elect Biden ask to join his Cabinet? Everyone has an opinion, and most of the opinions are terrible. On Episode 20 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene...
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