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A War Photographer Embeds With the Capitol Hill Mob
For more than three decades, photojournalist Ron Haviv has covered wars and unrest across five continents. One of his first international assignments was covering the 1989 coup attempt in Panama.* So...
View ArticleThe Capitol Riot Is a Cybersecurity Nightmare
The violent storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday by Donald Trump supporters, who were egged on by the president’s false claims that the election was fraudulent, was a bizarre and macabre event...
View ArticleElites Have Extracted What They Needed From Trump. Now They Can Discard Him.
The president incited a break-in at the Capitol; then Mick Mulvaney resigned as special envoy to Northern Ireland. Elaine Chao is reportedly stepping down as secretary of transportation. White House...
View ArticleThe Actual Death Toll From the Pro-Trump Riot Won’t Be Known for Weeks
The pro-Trump mob pushed through barricades and climbed walls, smashed windows and carried away mementos of their invasion. They jostled through the halls of the U.S. Capitol, pressed together shoulder...
View ArticleExxon Mobil Is Twisting Itself in Knots to Justify Pumping Even More Oil
Seemingly a month ago, on Tuesday, Exxon Mobil released its annual Energy & Carbon Summary. For the first time, the company reported its Scope 3 emissions. Those are emissions generated across the...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of the Pandemic Office
The worst manager I ever had could slip frictionlessly between enthusiasm and furor, high fives and reprimands. He liked to stalk through the restaurant where we worked, his shiny shoes and shiny hair...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Finally Unafraid to Be the Party of Free Money
For decades, Democrats have tried to downplay any desire to simply give people cash benefits, seemingly fearful of being seen as doling out freebies to the lazy and undeserving—“welfare queens,” in the...
View ArticleThe Case Against the $2,000 Checks
Now that the Democrats have won control of the Senate, with a 50–50 split and a tie-breaking vote for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, they should forget about those $2,000 stimulus checks and...
View ArticleAmerica’s Obsession With “Peaceful” Transitions Crashes Into Reality
As pageants go, presidential inaugurations are tame affairs. I went to one—Bill Clinton’s first, when I was 12—and don’t remember a thing about it. The parades are dull, the balls forgettable, the...
View ArticleThe Conservative Media Really Wants You to Think the Capitol Riot Is the...
Speaking on Fox News hours after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, a somber Tucker Carlson had a message for his audience: What happened was tragic, but it was also understandable—maybe even...
View ArticleThe $2,000 Checks and Our Failing Vaccine Rollout Have Something in Common
Even the prospect of the government cutting Americans no-strings-attached $2,000 checks seemed, as 2020 ended, to send certain moderates and liberals into a state of mild panic, as they imagined the...
View ArticleNext Week Might Be Too Late to Impeach Trump
It’s been almost three days since President Donald Trump incited a mob to attack Capitol Hill. So far, Facebook and Twitter have responded more forcefully to the attack on Congress than Congress has in...
View ArticleThe Capitol Riot Is Inspiring Far-Right Groups Around the World
Watching armed neo-Nazis and other extremists violently storm the Capitol building on Wednesday, my first thoughts weren’t of reaction in Washington D.C. Instead, I wondered who was watching in...
View ArticleDemocrats Shouldn’t Just Restore American Democracy. They Should Reinvent It.
At long last, it seems like nearly every Democrat in Washington finally agrees on something: impeaching Donald Trump (a second time) and removing him from office. Nancy Pelosi has declared that she is...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Stark, Historic Choice
Let’s get something straight. The press and many of our leaders have converged upon an implicit consensus that last Wednesday should be understood as the nadir of the Trump era—as a tipping point...
View ArticleThe Democrats Keep Recycling Tired Rhetoric
Over the past 60 years, two inaugural addresses, in particular, have left a lasting impression on Democratic oratory. In 1961, John Kennedy embodied the spirit of Cold War patriotism with his ringing,...
View ArticleDie Laughing at the Capitol
I am trying to cope with anti-democratic social collapse during a pandemic by reading local news stories about the people who stormed the Capitol. There was the remorseful CEO from the Chicago...
View ArticleWhy America Loves the Death Penalty
On the evening of February 16, 1961, 19-year-old Wilbert Rideau found himself at a loose end. He’d missed the bus after finishing work in his hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and couldn’t get a...
View ArticleFeeling Trump’s Pain
“But just remember this: You’re smarter, you’re stronger, you’ve got more going than anybody, and they try and demean everybody having to do with us.”—Donald Trump, January 6, 2021“We need to be the...
View ArticleTrump’s Four-Year Drilling Binge Has Done Irreparable Damage
Last week, amid the chaos of the Capitol riot, the Trump administration proceeded with plans to sell off chunks of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the gas and oil industry’s highest bidders. The...
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