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Bernie Sanders Is Winning His War on Cable News

There’s little love for Bernie Sanders on the television news circuit. After his landslide win in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, MSNBC host Chris Matthews compared the victory to Nazi Germany’s successful...

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Deb Haaland Shouldn’t Have to Fight This Hard

On Wednesday, the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States convened to discuss the destruction of sacred sites along the border. Ned Norris Jr., chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation,...

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Criticizing Michael Bloomberg in an Age of Anti-Semitism

In October 2018, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy took to Twitter to denounce Michael Bloomberg, the New York billionaire who had poured $80 million into the Democratic fight to retake the House of...

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Michael Bloomberg Puts Democrats in Moral Peril

Michael Bloomberg will not be the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Neither the money he has spent thus far in the race nor all the money he is prepared to spend in the months ahead will make it...

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At CPAC, the Socialists Are Coming to Get You

The Conservative Political Action Conference, a multi-day annual event held just outside Washington that brings together conservative activists and students from around the country, has always been...

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Faith Militant

The confident jargon of the corporate workplace almost always carries with it a hidden agenda, to be sprung on a beleaguered (if not exactly unsuspecting) workforce. When you hear a phrase like...

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Nationalizing the Power Industry Isn’t Radical

During his CNN Town Hall last week, hedge fund billionaire and trailing presidential hopeful Tom Steyer added his voice to an increasingly common refrain from fellow billionaire candidate Mike...

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A Whiff of Weimar

Thuringia lies at the geographic heart of Germany. It is where Bach was born; where Goethe wrote Faust; where Martin Luther was ordained as a monk. Germany’s first democratic constitution was adopted...

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Lena Waithe Insists on Irreverence

When the pilot presentation for Twenties, a show about a group of twentysomething black women trying to make it in Hollywood, first appeared on YouTube in 2013, Lena Waithe wanted to make sure we all...

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The War on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Goes to Court

For Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Super Tuesday could mark a turning point in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. It may also be a pivotal day for her greatest...

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60 Minutes Celebrates a War Criminal

Last weekend, for the first time ever, a long-term cease-fire deal in America’s longest-ever war went into effect. But on Sunday evening, viewers of 60 Minutes, America’s premier weekly news digest,...

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Conservatives’ Coronavirus Denial Is Going to Get People Killed

Last week, at long last, the United States woke up to the threat of a global pandemic. The stock market tanked, as investors began to doubt the Trump administration’s ability to handle the coronavirus....

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Life in China During the Coronavirus Lockdown

An estimated 10 million people live in Zhengzhou. But lately, the streets have been empty, resembling frames from a postapocalyptic movie.The city already felt different at the end of January, when the...

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Donald Trump’s Nominations Game Finally Backfired

A strange habit in President Donald Trump’s administration is the abundance of “acting” officials. Other presidents typically send major nominations to the Senate as quickly as possible so they can be...

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Is the iPhone a Work of Art?

The Bauhaus, open for less than a decade and a half, was one of those rare influential failures. It was like the Velvet Underground, the band that inspired all of its fans to start bands of their own....

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Chris Matthews Was Everything Wrong With Cable News

Chris Matthews’s abrupt resignation on Monday night shouldn’t have come as a surprise. He had spent the last two weeks doing the cable television equivalent of Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes—comparing...

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A Virus Is Not a Messaging Problem

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informed President Donald Trump that coronavirus was spreading within the United States between people who had no history of international...

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Bon Appétit Test Kitchen Is a Green New Deal Fantasy

Between a seemingly endless election season, potential global pandemic, and looming climate catastrophe, these are stressful times. If you’ve wandered onto the internet seeking an easy hit of serotonin...

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The Radical Future of Self-Managed Abortion Is Already Here

Lizy and the woman who helped her to end her pregnancy met at a Starbucks in León, the largest city in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. Then a 20-year-old social-work student with curly hair...

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Facing a Pandemic in the New Gilded Age

A small segment of the population, Bloomberg reported earlier this week, possesses a type of partial immunity to the coronavirus: They’re rich. With the news that the virus has spread to 60 countries...

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