Amazon Warehouse Workers Knew Someone Would Get Sick
It was fall of last year when Jake, who asked that I not use his last name, first started working at an Amazon fulfillment center in Queens. It was a second job—he took it on because he needed some...
View ArticleTrump’s Most Devout Disciple
These days, the green rooms at Fox News are full of pundits and politicians desperate to please President Donald Trump. When Sean Hannity spins the results of the latest poll as a conservative victory,...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Movie of Our Time Isn’t Contagion. It’s Jaws.
Ever since the coronavirus gained a toehold on these shores, freaked-out Americans have been watching Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 movie Contagion, about the race to stop a mysterious, rapidly spreading...
View ArticlePutin Is Perfecting His Authoritarian Model
Façades are everything in Russia. Vladimir Putin learned that the hard way in 2011, when he let his own façade slip at a party convention and publicly admitted to an end run around the country’s...
View ArticleThe Democrats Screwed Up
After former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero met with Joe Biden in 2010, two words stuck with him: tears and suffering.That’s according to Zapatero’s 2013 memoir, The Dilemma. The...
View ArticleThe New Republic Announces New Hires, Podcast and Launches New Visual...
New York, NY — (February 13, 2020) — As The New Republic showcases an elegant and ambitious redesign with its March 2020 issue, the premier journal of liberal opinion also has announced significant...
View ArticleThe New Republic Takes on Pack Journalism and the Media’s Obsession with...
NEW YORK — (March 19, 2020) — In the midst of the ongoing pandemic, The New Republic’s team of journalists is extensively covering the developments of the coronavirus’s spread and its impact on...
View ArticleOur Never-Ending Recession
For the last four decades, “the economy” has been less a measure of any kind of shared prosperity than it’s been a weathervane for the investment portfolios of the 1 percent. That was never clearer...
View ArticleThe Left Is Bigger Than Bernie Sanders
In the face of a pandemic that could kill more than a million Americans, overwhelm our health care system, and tank our economy, Democratic leadership in Congress has stood firm in one demand: Let’s...
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Joe Biden’s Endless Search for a Message
Joe Biden’s history of hesitating to run for president—he contemplated runs in 1984, 1988, 2008, and 2016—is often ascribed to his sense of responsibility. Recounting how Biden finally backed himself...
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The Un-American
In late 2014, a young woman named Hoda Muthana slipped away from her Alabama home to travel to Syria as one more volunteer for the Islamic State. Over the ensuing years, her parents, Ahmed Ali and...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Could Kill Millions. U.S.-Iran Hostilities Will Make It Worse.
Not long ago, just after the new year was rung in, Americans watched and worried as an exchange of rocket and missile attacks on Iraqi soil brought the United States and Iran to the brink of war. The...
View ArticleThe Disunited States of America
There is cause for alarm. An epidemiological report from Imperial College London now guiding federal policy suggests as many as 2.2 million Americans could die if the authorities and public make little...
View ArticleTrump Doesn’t Care About You
President Trump claimed last week that the coronavirus crisis had turned him into a “wartime president.” Over the weekend, he signaled that he might aid the enemy. “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN...
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Emily St. John Mandel’s Ghost World
Emily St. John Mandel has a knack for explosive openings. Her last novel, Station Eleven, begins during a production of King Lear, in the long moment it takes the lead actor to stutter, fall backwards,...
View ArticleFear of an Invisible Threat
Since he could say the word, my son has been obsessed with the subject of microbes. At his insistence we have a library of children’s literature on the subject, books such as Meet Bacteria!, Inside...
View ArticleCoronavirus in a Time of Conspicuous Consumption
Rancho Gordo, a California-based seller of dried heirloom beans, reports that sales have quadrupled in the past few weeks. (A variety named Royal Corona remains its top seller, despite the name.) As...
View ArticleAmerica’s Diseased Politics
Last Wednesday, with a pandemic spiking and the economy plummeting, Senator Charles Schumer finally lost his cool and dispensed with syntactic best practices in the name of urgency. In outlining the...
View ArticleTucker Carlson Is Leading the White House’s Coronavirus Response
As the coronavirus spread across the world, Fox News became the epicenter of disinformation about the crisis. Jeanine Pirro dismissed the virus as less deadly than the flu. Sean Hannity and Laura...
View ArticleCould Trump Spark a New Balkan Ethnic War?
As it struggles to manage the coronavirus crisis, the White House has begun casting around for policy victories that could fortify President Trump’s reelection chances. It has set its sights on a...
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