The White House Report on Supreme Court Reform Made a Glaring Omission
President Joe Biden’s commission on Supreme Court reform issued a preliminary report on Thursday calling for the high court’s replacement by a supreme revolutionary tribunal modeled after the Committee...
View ArticleSports Reporting Is Broken
For most of the last month, the biggest story in the NBA has been a mystery: Why hasn’t Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving been vaccinated against Covid-19? Irving, who at this point reporters are...
View ArticleDon’t Let the Austerity Hacks Get Their Hooks in the Climate Debate
Will the Democrat-controlled Congress advance any meaningful climate change mitigation? There is hope that it might: The budget reconciliation bill currently being debated takes substantive aim at the...
View ArticleJoe Biden Is Not in Free Fall
One of the major differences between liberals and conservatives is that liberals are much more inclined toward public teeth-gnashing. It’s just something in our DNA: Maybe it’s an admirable honesty, or...
View ArticleExecutive Privilege Was Out of Control Even Before Steve Bannon Claimed It
We can all agree that it’s ridiculous for Steve Bannon to dodge testifying before the House committee investigating January 6 with a claim of executive privilege. Bannon left the Trump White House more...
View ArticleThe Foreign Policy “Credibility” Argument Is, Well, Not Credible
This summer, as U.S. troops beat a hasty and chaotic retreat from Afghanistan, the foreign policy community both here and abroad was near unanimous in its belief that President Biden had done grievous...
View ArticleThe Magnificent Jumble of Donald Barthelme’s Stories
Decades after his premature death—in 1989 at the age of 58—Donald Barthelme might be the one indisputably minor American short story writer of the last century who remains a pleasure to read and...
View ArticleAmerican Law Firms Are Enabling Foreign Kleptocrats
Over the past week, some of the strangest responses to the Pandora Papers—the leak of nearly 12 million global financial secrecy documents, offering an unprecedented look into the broader world of...
View ArticleThe Myth of Parents as Savvy Childcare Consumers
In debates over publicly funded childcare, conservatives and liberals alike trumpet the importance of giving parents the ability to send their children to the preschool or day care of their choosing....
View ArticleEveryone Is Reading Too Much Into Virginia’s Race for Governor
For a political press hopelessly addicted to speculation about the next big election, there are precious few data points to obsess over during the first year of a president’s term. New York City elects...
View ArticleThe Revenge of the Essential Worker
Of all the images coming out of the current strike wave—the motorcycle club joining the Kellogg’s picket line, New York City taxi drivers shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge—the apparent chaos at the...
View ArticleThe Erie County Sheriff’s Race Is a Matter of Life or Death
Erie County Sheriff and Trump superfan Timothy B. Howard should be as notorious as Joe Arpaio, the famously racist Republican sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, whom Howard sees as a kindred spirit....
View ArticleDemocrat Kurt Schrader Keeps Raking in Pharma Bucks
For the past few months, Congressman Kurt Schrader has been fighting to kill a prescription drug pricing provision in President Biden’s proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. And all the while,...
View ArticleThe Sunrise Climate Activists Are Going on Hunger Strike
On Wednesday at 9 a.m., five people with the youth climate activist group Sunrise Movement will begin a hunger strike outside the White House to demand Congress and President Biden work to pass the...
View ArticleRelease the January 6 Documents!
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish by filing a lawsuit to prevent documents pertaining to the January 6 insurrection from ending up in the hands of the...
View ArticleIn Advance of Midterms, Top GOP Voter Data Firm Makes a Move
The major hub for Republican voter data has undergone a shake-up at the highest level, according to multiple Republican sources. The Data Trust, the GOP’s clearinghouse for voter data, has brought in a...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Predicament Du Jour: Expand Health Care Coverage to the...
With a likely lower price tag than initially anticipated, and the clock relentlessly ticking down, Democrats are scrambling to settle their ongoing debates and reach an agreement over which priorities...
View Article“We’ve Gotta Do This”: Sherrod Brown on Build Back Better
Senator Sherrod Brown chairs the Senate Banking Committee and is in the thick of negotiations on both the traditional infrastructure and broader budget bills. Here, he talks about his major priorities...
View ArticleTrump’s Defense Against the January 6 Commission Discovers New Depths of...
Former President Donald Trump really, really does not want the House January 6 committee to get access to his White House records about the insurrection. According to a lawsuit he filed this week to...
View ArticleHousing Is the Great Endangered Necessity of the Build Back Better Bill
Congress is fighting over whether the $3.5 trillion proposal is going to get just a little trim or a serious haircut. Most media reports and most Democrats list some combination of the following...
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