The Glaring Exception in the Coming Battle Over Reproductive Rights
Ever since Justice Anthony Kennedy’s June announcement that he would retire from the Supreme Court, the spotlight has been on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Less than a day after...
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Air Pollution Denial Could Become EPA Policy
Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty ImagesMuch of the Republican Party has long denied the science of climate change—that humans are causing the planet to warm. They’ve been less willing, historically, to deny the...
View ArticleCongress Makes Corruption Too Easy
Six years ago, Congress passed the STOCK Act, which for the first time made members of Congress liable for insider trading, just like any other investor. On Wednesday, the Justice Department issued the...
View ArticleWelcome to the New U.S.–Turkish Relationship
Sanctioning another NATO ally is a remarkable move. As such, the Trump administration’s sanctions on Turkey’s justice and interior ministers last week, over the detention of American pastor Andrew...
View ArticleWhy Is Google Returning to China?
This spring, Google quietly removed its longtime unofficial motto, “Don’t be evil,” from its employee code of conduct. The motto was largely an exercise in branding rather than an ideological...
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Our Algorithms, Ourselves
The first page of David Auerbach’s memoir, which also functions as a selective history of the relation between the human being and computer programming, begins at the very beginning: “Like so many...
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Why Little Women Endures
When Louisa May Alcott was a child, her father Bronson asked her to define what a philosopher was. She replied, tongue in cheek: “a man up in a balloon with his family at the strings tugging to pull...
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White Out
On Wednesday evening, Laura Ingraham opened her Fox News show with a critique of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old democratic socialist who ousted a top House Democrat in a June primary and is...
View ArticleWhy Public Banks Are Suddenly Popular
Later this year, on the midterm ballot, voters in Los Angeles, California, will be asked an uncommon question: Should the city be to allowed to create a public bank?L.A.’s referendum, which would not...
View ArticleIs Roger Stone Next?
Paul Manafort’s trial in Alexandria, Virginia, captured most of the nation’s attention this week, but legal proceedings across the Potomac River in Washington may be the best indicator of where the...
View ArticleWhat Is Keith Ellison Thinking?
In June, hours before the 5 p.m. filing deadline, Keith Ellison submitted papers to Minnesota’s secretary of state announcing his intention to run for attorney general. Since then, the six-term...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Taking Latino Voters for Granted
During the month that the World Cup was broadcast on Florida’s three Telemundo TV stations this summer, one advertisement stood out. It begins with Colombian, Mexican, and Brazilian fans celebrating...
View ArticleJim Limber Tells What He Knows About Heaven
Heaven’s a horse a train a ship with noCaptain or with a captain but the captain isA Negro or a rowboat tied but loose-ly to the dock the river peaceful no- body or everybody is...
View ArticleNaipaul and the World
For a writer of “obvious greatness”—as Dwight Garner termed him in The New York Times—it is remarkable that V.S. Naipaul is so well known, in life and now in death, for his many flaws. His catalog of...
View ArticleIs Tesla for Real?
Even by the standards of Elon Musk’s wild 2018—which has included production, cash flow, and fire problems at his electric car company Tesla, and a number of reckless and irresponsible tweets—the last...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Real Pelosi Problem Is After the Midterms
In 2006, just before Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican strategist Dan Schnur told NPR that “if you’re a Republican trying to warn voters against a Democratic vote,...
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How Scientists Discovered Extra Steps in Evolution
Two years ago a New Scientist headline announced the “world’s first baby born with new ‘3 parent’ technique.” Whereas an embryo is usually produced by one sperm and one egg, this technique uses genetic...
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The 30-Year Manhunt for China’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
It was Chinese New Year, a weeklong celebration of fireworks and family to scare up good fortune and dispel evil spirits, when the killer went on the prowl again.He picked a young worker walking home,...
View ArticleHow an Environmental Catastrophe Could Decide Florida’s Senate Race
Florida’s Senate race, where incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson has been steadily losing ground to Republican Rick Scott, could decide which party controls the Senate next year. And at the moment, it seems...
View ArticleVirgil, Hey
Ah me! I find myself middle-aged divorced lostIn the forest dark of my failures mortgage & slack breastsIt’s hard to admit nobody wants to do me anymoreNot even Virgil will lead me down...
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