Republicans Aren’t Even Trying to Fight the Democrats’ Covid Relief Bill
Do Fox News viewers even know about the American Rescue Act, the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that passed the Senate? They might not. The network, like most right-wing media, has largely ignored the...
View ArticleJoe Manchin Decides Whether Biden’s Agenda Lives or Dies
In a series of interviews that aired this past weekend, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin offered progressives a glimmer of hope about the future of the Democratic legislative agenda. “There should be...
View ArticleThe Fossil Fuel Fight Isn’t Just in Congress—It’s in Your Kitchen
The fight over American fossil fuel dependency is upon us. Earlier this week, Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana put a hold on the full-chamber confirmation vote for President Biden’s pick for...
View ArticleGraham Greene Against the World
The last novelist who acted like he might save the world may have been Graham Greene. He belonged to a generation of writers who might not always share the same political opinions but who supported...
View ArticleInsurrectionist in Chief
In February’s Senate trial to impeach and convict Donald Trump for the crime of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the modern GOP had one last shot at rescuing its long-battered...
View ArticleThis Is What the Beginning of a Climate-Labor Alliance Looks Like
Tuesday night, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act passed the House by 225–205 votes. If it passes the Senate and becomes law, it will peel back over half a century of anti-union policies,...
View ArticleTrophy Homes and $2.5 Million Tweets: How the Idle Rich Spent Their Pandemic...
Pity the newly rich, who are struggling with where to put their millions. According to a recent analysis cited by The New York Times, about 7,000 millionaires will emerge from the latest round of...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Won’t Shut Up About a 16-Year-Old Bipartisan Report on...
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge of two voting rules in Arizona—one that bans most third parties from collecting absentee ballots and another that disqualifies...
View ArticleThe Underground Activists Who Fought for Freedom Across Asia
On an evening in June 1924, a French colonial official named Merlin narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He was visiting the city of Canton, in southern China, from Indochina, where he was...
View ArticleWhat Is BuzzFeed Doing to HuffPost?
Tuesday was a beautiful day in New York City—60 degrees, cloudless, a perfect March day after a brutal February. At 10 a.m., right when the weather was getting very nice, management at BuzzFeed called...
View ArticleHow Big Tech Devours Public Space
In early February, Amazon released plans for its new corporate campus in Arlington, Virginia. The preliminary renderings show several generic glass office buildings clustered around a spire called “the...
View ArticleThe Year That Broke Care Work
A small guaranteed income is included in the new stimulus package approved by Congress on Wednesday afternoon. Starting around July, households earning $150,000 or less annually will receive monthly...
View ArticleWhat Will Life in America Be Like in 2022?
It’s September 2022, nearly three years after a mysterious virus began sweeping through China. In the United States, kids of all ages, newly vaccinated against Covid-19, are back in school, and their...
View ArticleHave Democrats Learned Their Lesson?
There is a rapidly consolidating consensus among the liberal commentariat that Democrats have learned from mistakes made during the Obama years and updated their thinking to adapt to new political...
View ArticleSaving the Nation Cannot End With Biden’s Covid Relief Bill
In his first primetime address to the nation Thursday night, President Joe Biden will likely spend at least a little time touting the provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act, the $1.9 trillion...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Confident, Unconventional Politics
Even before he was elected to the Senate at age 29, Joe Biden always believed that he could make the sale—that he could close the deal about anything. There is a relentlessness at Biden’s core, an...
View ArticleThe Struggle to Define Life
In 1813, the East India Company’s James Forbes published an explosive story about monkeys. While traveling in India, he had stayed beneath an enormous banyan tree near the Narmada River. One day, a...
View ArticleThe Conservative Politics of Victimhood
Over the past year, Meghan McCain has made a number of statements from her mainstream pundit perch on ABC’s The View that, if you didn’t know better, might suggest that she is a liberal. The daughter...
View ArticleAn Honest History of Texas Begins and Ends With White Supremacy
The past few months have been rough for Texas—and for the Texas Republican Party in particular. Republicans in the state led the charge to overturn the 2020 election results, centering their...
View ArticleThe Amazon Rain Forest Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought
In July 2019, about 30 scientists from around the world gathered in Manaus, Brazil. Their goal was to map out all of the ways the Amazon absorbs and releases greenhouse gases. In a new study published...
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