Hit the Rails, Amtrak Joe!
With his poll ratings mired in the low 40s and the 2022 electoral outlook for Democrats somewhere between dismal and dire, Joe Biden has been attracting more advice than a fledgling investor in...
View ArticleThe Weight of Family History
I didn’t touch alcohol—literally, not a drop—until a few months before I turned 21. From an early age, I’d known that my grandfather had been an alcoholic, and the common wisdom that the disease skips...
View ArticleWhat Josh Hawley Would Bother to Learn About Ketanji Brown Jackson If He...
As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faces her fourth Senate confirmation hearing, this one holds the powerful significance of just what a plural democracy means. We all know that if confirmed, she will be...
View ArticleWhen Professors’ Speech Is Disqualifying
Does academic freedom protect professors espousing white supremacist ideas? The answer, for the past hundred-and-more years since the founding of the American Association of University Professors...
View ArticleVladimir Putin’s Dreadful Ukraine Endgame
If the war has indeed reached a stalemate, as a number of outlets were reporting Sunday, then it’s time to worry in earnest about what Vladimir Putin will do next—by which I mean, just to cut to the...
View ArticleIn Memory of W.B. Yeats
I. He disappeared in the dead of winter.The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,And snow disfigured the public statues;The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.O all the instruments...
View ArticleMarsha Blackburn and Josh Hawley Greet Ketanji Brown Jackson With Bad-Faith...
The first day of a Supreme Court confirmation hearing is usually the weirdest one. The senators each get 10 minutes to publicly confirm their views on judicial nominees, and the nominee gets to sit...
View ArticleBig Oil Is Making Billions. Let’s Tax It and Give the Money to the People.
Democrats in Congress have introduced a proposal to give you another stimulus check of hundreds of dollars. And I’m guessing you probably don’t know about it. It’s true. Not only that, but the proposal...
View ArticleColombia’s Fossil Fuel Industry Is Freaking Out About Presidential...
This spring, Colombia could elect its first progressive president. In primary elections earlier this month—held for left-wing, centrist, and ruling right blocs—former Bogotá mayor and 2018 presidential...
View ArticleIs This the End of “America First”?
Speaking to Steve Bannon as Russian troops massed along Ukraine’s border last month, former elite globalist and current Ohio senatorial candidate J.D. Vance made the case that what was about to...
View ArticleSheila Heti Steps Away From Autofiction
When Sheila Heti’s novel How Should a Person Be? was published in 2010, it seemed for a moment that literary fiction might once again be the best place to take the pulse of the culture. Subtitled A...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court May Soon Shut Down the Regulatory State. Let’s Use It While...
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has submitted to the Biden White House a list of proposed recommendations for executive action. This has prompted a debate about whether it’s best, in the limited...
View Article“Neutrality” Won’t Protect Ukraine
As the death toll mounts and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth week, the two countries’ negotiating teams claim to be trying to hammer out a possible solution, even as Russian bombs hammer...
View ArticleThe Latest Eric Greitens Scandal Is Surprising to … Absolutely No One
There’s a bit of a “who saw that coming?” feel to the latest big developments in the Missouri Senate race.The answer is simple: Anyone who’s been paying attention.To recap: Former Missouri Governor...
View ArticleHow to Fight the Good War Against Russia—Without Bombs or Bullets
Randolph Bourne, the brilliant young New Republic writer who died in 1918, is now best known for his bold claim: “War is the health of the state.” It’s an unnerving thing to contemplate, and it’s not...
View ArticleWhy Does the CDC Keep Screwing Up?
Jason is a data scientist. He’s also the parent of two young children who aren’t yet eligible for Covid-19 vaccines. Since the pandemic began, he’s used his data skills to try to assess what, exactly,...
View ArticleTed Cruz Attacked Ketanji Brown Jackson for Affiliating With a Private School...
It’s axiomatic among mainstream conservatives that schoolchildren must never be taught that American society harbors prejudice against Black people. Saying so, they believe, is as bad as racial...
View ArticleKetanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings Reveal Republicans’ Twisted...
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has spent this week articulating her views on the Constitution and the rule of law in marathon hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. But the most notable...
View ArticleCongress Is Leaving Americans to Fend for Themselves Against Omicron BA.2
A week ago, Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, tested positive for Covid-19, prompting Harris to cancel several planned appearances. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki...
View Article“A Russian Asset in the White House”: Author Craig Unger on Trump, Putin, and...
Investigative journalist and bestselling author Craig Unger has spent decades researching the profound connection between figures on the American right and autocrats and authoritarians of various...
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