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What’s the Matter With Men?
Years ago, my husband and I were seated at a restaurant beside two other men. They didn’t seem to be a couple (gays can usually tell), or brothers, or colleagues; they ate in companionable enough...
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How Business Schools Fail Up
“The higher educational system of the industrial society,” University of California president Clark Kerr wrote in 1960, stresses the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, managerial training… There...
View ArticleWill the Democrats’ Russia Obsession Hurt Bernie Sanders?
Robert O’Brien, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to make the case that Russia had a new best friend in American politics. While he had not “seen...
View ArticleThe Still Incomplete Case Against Harvey Weinstein
While more than 90 women have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, the Manhattan trial that concluded on Monday concerned his conduct with three women: Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, and...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Playing a Perilous Game With Data
The whole point of an election is to know who got the most votes. This matter wasn’t quickly resolved in this month’s Iowa caucuses. A cascade of failures and errors by the Iowa Democratic Party...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Has Made a Hash of His Castro Flap
Earlier this week, after he’d become the presumptive frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders slipped and fell face-first on a series of comments he’d made when he was decades...
View ArticleThe Selling of the Democratic Primary
The Democratic Party has a monopoly on a product known as the “primary season” that is very much in demand. Like any good monopolist, they are milking their captive audience (Democrats) for all they’re...
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Hate Is on the Ballot
On election night 2018, newly re-gaveled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presided over a celebratory press conference after the Democratic Party’s recapture of a majority in the U.S. House of...
View ArticleWe’re All on This Sick Planet Together
Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control warned that the United States should brace itself for a widespread outbreak of the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19. “It’s not so much of a question of if...
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Mike Bloomberg’s Identity Politics
Mike Bloomberg is a boss, and he’s got the hat to prove it. Ahead of the South Carolina primary, for which he will not be on the ballot, and the ensuing Super Tuesday elections, for which he will,...
View ArticleWhy Warren Is Out for Bloomberg’s Blood
Among the many ways the pundit class has sought to understand the Democratic primary field, from its early overpopulated days to the substantially winnowed group of contenders we have now, the most...
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How Insulin Became the Poster Child for Medicare for All
Nicole Smith-Holt, a college financial aid specialist in Richfield, Minnesota, got the call on a Tuesday in June 2017. Her son Alec had been found alone in his new apartment, slumped over and ice-cold....
View ArticleWhy the New Right Loves Nootropics
A class of supplements bills itself as neuroenhancers or nootropics—compounds you don’t need a prescription for that promise to augment your mental functioning without side effects. A notable subset of...
View ArticleWhen “Meatless Mondays” Aren’t Enough
One might read a piece in the New York Times food section about the difficulties of obtaining ethically and responsibly sourced shrimp, then find links to shrimp recipes beneath it. The national...
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How Far Left Should a Millennial Be?
Liberals have never quite known what to make of those who are far to their left. Conservatives tend to conflate liberals and leftists so often that many who fit under the broad Democratic umbrella have...
View ArticleBernie’s Boring Path to Victory
There’s been much debate since the Iowa caucus about the extent to which Bernie Sanders has delivered on the promise that his campaign would inspire record breaking levels of turnout and engagement...
View ArticleWelcome to the Mean Tweets Primary
This week, a regional field director for the Bernie Sanders campaign was fired for tweets that demeaned—acidly and in the extremely online parlance of cruel detachment—the current crop of Democratic...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Is Trump’s Worst Nightmare
Donald Trump is not known for his steely calm. In the face of a seemingly endless string of legal scrapes and existential crises—impeachment, a special counsel investigation, a potentially mortifying...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Could Spring an Abortion Rights Trap
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in its first major abortion case in four years. The case, June Medical Services v. Russo, is not a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade or Planned...
View ArticleThe Good Internet Lives On
Wikipedia is now such a ubiquitous part of online life that it’s hard to remember how strange the project seemed at first. I was a freshman in college in 2000, when Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger...
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