Tucker Carlson Has a Crazy New Conspiracy Theory About U.S. Bioweapons in...
If, a few years ago, or even a few weeks ago, you had Googled “Defense Threat Reduction Agency,” or DTRA, you would have stumbled upon a few anodyne entries offering mostly neutral descriptions of what...
View ArticleAmazon Misses Trump, Badly
Did Amazon really imagine that smoother sailing lay ahead after Joe Biden took office last year? According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, chronicling the company’s increasingly...
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Evictions Are Back. Black Renters Are Suffering the Most—Again.
By Thanksgiving, Tiesha Harris had run out of ways to cope.She’d been living in her 2007 Chevy Trailblazer since she contracted Covid-19, fell behind on her rent, and was evicted from an apartment in...
View ArticleThe Oil Crisis Is Making Fossil Fuel Executives Cocky and Vengeful
S&P Global’s CERAWeek was an event seemingly designed for a different point in history. History, of course, has moved fast in recent weeks. The green color scheme and sea-foam carpet welcoming...
View ArticleWhy Ron DeSantis’s New Abortion Restrictions Will Be Felt Far Beyond Florida
On its busier days, the volunteer-run Tampa Bay Abortion Fund receives up to 15 calls requesting support. Callers might seek money for abortions or need assistance traveling to a clinic—whatever the...
View ArticleThe Democrats Betrayed the People of D.C.
To live in Washington, D.C., is to accept a series of undeniable truths: The temperature will drop from 70 to 30 in the span of a day, no single metro line will run for longer than a month without a...
View ArticleWhy Is David Leonhardt So Happy?
I have been reading David Leonhardt’s New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candide—the...
View ArticleRepublicans Keep Turning to the Same Texas Judges to Block Biden’s Policies
There are 94 federal judicial districts in America, but one has become the primary venue of choice for Republicans looking to challenge President Biden’s every move: the Northern District of Texas.It’s...
View ArticleRepublicans’ Wildly Cynical and Slightly Ignorant Support for a No-Fly Zone
Speaking to ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos earlier this month, Marco Rubio succinctly rejected one trendy option for protecting Ukraine from Russian bombs: establishing a “no-fly zone” over the...
View ArticleA New Covid Variant Is Coming, and Congress Is Stalling on Aid
This month marks the two-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic disrupting our lives and livelihoods, the abrupt transition from everyday existence to quarantine, and a new political reality that...
View ArticleWhy Joe Manchin Sank Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Nomination
On Friday, an energetic Joe Manchin spoke to a room full of oil and gas executives in Houston. The following Monday, after long declining to state his position publicly, he came out against Biden’s...
View ArticleHow Liberalism Can Avoid Futility
When Liberalism speaks of the triumph of Briand over Lloyd George it condemns itself. If wickedness has conquered in the person of Briand, it was largely because we were not there to help on the right...
View ArticleAmericans Remember They Like Democracy—in Other Countries, Anyway
The merciless Russian invasion of Ukraine—with the shelling of maternity hospitals and the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians—has created about as clear-cut a struggle between good (Volodymyr...
View ArticleClaire-Louise Bennett Digresses
The young woman who narrates Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel Checkout 19 is both familiar and not. She’s precocious, grew up working class in southwest England, and feels much like the woman we met in...
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This Federally Owned Public Utility Company Is Run by a Former Fossil Fuel...
Ever since Ronald Reagan popularized the term “Big Government,” Republicans have raged against the imaginary scourge of overpaid do-nothing civil servants. Conservatives claim that government...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Wondering How to Run on Inflation. They Can’t Run Away From It.
At the conclusion of the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy committee meeting on Wednesday, the panel is widely expected to raise interest rates, a move Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen alluded to last...
View ArticleThe Oligarchs Can’t Depose Putin—but Let’s Put the Screws to Them Anyway
Have you ever seen an oligarch? I did, once, three years ago, in Vienna, or at least I’m pretty sure I did. My wife and I were sightseeing in Stephansplatz. We stopped for dinner at the Vienna branch...
View ArticleVolodymyr Zelenskiy Used the Power of Images to Sway Congress
Abraham Lincoln didn’t have Mathew Brady photographs when he spoke at Gettysburg. Winston Churchill didn’t show grainy World War II newsreels in 1941 when he addressed a joint session of Congress just...
View Article“There Was Barely a Breath”: How Capitol Hill Reacted to Volodymyr...
The images were stark. Not the sanitized version of war, grief-filled but largely bloodless pictures and video depicting ravaged landscapes and stunned refugees. There was no warning to the audience...
View ArticleThe Motive of the Critic
Nearly all discussions of criticism, it seems to me, start of with a false assumption, to wit, the assumption that the primary motive of the critic, the impulse which makes a critic of him and not a...
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