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What Are Frank Pallone’s Corporate Donors Getting for Their Money?

In a sleepy virtual hearing on Monday, New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone—chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee—introduced former Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz as the first witness to talk...

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Is This Q?

One of the more surprising resignation letters in recent history was published on the day of President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Posted on Telegram by Ron Watkins, a website administrator who emerged...

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On Teen Vogue and the “Cancel Culture” Hell We Can’t Seem to Escape

The exit of an editor in chief at Teen Vogue isn’t the kind of thing that usually gets international media pickup, but the brief tenure of Alexi McCammond—whose hiring and resignation at the magazine...

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Can Religion Give You PTSD?

When Ana Sharp Williamson came home from her honeymoon in the summer of 2019, she moved in with her husband and began the process of deciding which church they should go to. She didn’t want to go to...

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Will Demi Lovato’s Sexual Assault Revelations Finally Put a Dent in Disney’s...

In the new docuseries Dancing With the Devil: The Art of Starting Over, which airs on Demi Lovato’s YouTube channel today and precedes the release of her new album on April 2, the singer and actor...

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Banning Chicken Cages Won’t Make Eggs Humane

“A victory for animals.” That’s what philosopher Peter Singer, a luminary of the animal protection movement, called it last week when Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox signed into law Bill 147, which...

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Biden Was Half-Right About His Power Over Republicans

In the early days of the presidential campaign in 2019, long before the pandemic and the George Floyd protests and the insurrection at the Capitol, President Joe Biden praised two former senators, both...

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Saying Never Again to the Violence in Atlanta Means Saying No to More Policing

The confessed Atlanta mass shooter, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s office, described his targets as “an outlet.” As police put it in a statement, he told them the crimes were “not racially...

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The Biden Administration Needs Lisa Murkowski

Late Monday, Politico reported that Senator Lisa Murkowski, one of a handful of Republicans in the chamber who can be counted on in close confirmation votes, nixed the Biden administration’s desired...

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Paleo Con

“They must be the most contented people in the world.” This is how the 1980 comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy introduces the San peoples of the Kalahari Desert, better known as the Bushmen. They eke out a...

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The Most Important Thing Democrats Can Do With Their Power Is Protect the Vote

It should be clear by now that the 117th Congress will go down as one of the most consequential Congresses in modern American history. Reasonable people can disagree on precisely why. Some have...

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Love and Humiliation Are Inseparable in Acts of Desperation

When Ari Aster’s breakup fantasia Midsommar was first released in 2019, many women I knew cited one of its earliest scenes as a particularly traumatizing moment—namely, a protracted argument between...

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How the Top 0.01 Percent Became America’s Criminal Class

“We don’t pay taxes,” the hotel magnate and 1980s “queen of mean” Leona Helmsley famously said. “Only the little people pay taxes.” That Helmsley would go on to spend 21 months in the slammer for tax...

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Why the Media Wants a Crisis at the Border

On Sunday, ABC’s This Week sent its weekly roundtable—excuse me, its Powerhouse Roundtable—on a field trip to the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s possible that a Sunday show has never looked more striking:...

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Audre Lorde Broke the Silence

“Is it possible to be a black lesbian writer and live to tell about it?” asked budding writer and scholar Barbara Smith at the 1976 convention of the Modern Language Association. Among those in...

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The Exaggeration of “Burnout” in America

I bet you’re burned out after enduring a full year of the Covid-19 pandemic. If you have kids, you’re probably trying to teach them at home, either between work shifts out in the world or while sharing...

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The Fracking Shill Local Newspapers Love to Publish

“If we hit our CO2 targets and every one of us are living in abject poverty, is that really how you really want to live?” Greg Kozera is making his pro-fracking case to me. Later in our phone call,...

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Biden’s Worrying Reluctance to Confront Saudi Arabia

Days before the sixth anniversary of its devastating military intervention in Yemen, which began on March 25, 2015, the Saudi government offered a ceasefire to its enemies, the Houthi rebels....

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The Amazon Union Vote is Ending in Bessemer. Workers Are Already Preparing...

The Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, is 885,000 square feet of shiny new construction. Signs painted on the windows in bursts of green, red, yellow greet workers at the main entrance with the...

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The Obscure Supreme Court Case That Could Radically Redefine Police Powers

Why is the United States so reliant on police officers for basic social services? What societal roles do cops fill other than investigating crimes, arresting suspects, and patrolling communities? And...

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