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How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment
In 1979, Barry Goldwater turned to his diary to register a change in the nation’s politics. “Today as I sit in the Senate,” he wrote, “it is interesting to me to watch liberals, moderates, and...
View ArticleIs the Media About to Screw Up Coverage of Biden’s Vice Presidential Pick?
Donald Trump’s attacks on Joe Biden aren’t working. The president has sought to portray Biden as a closet Antifa member out to abolish everything: the police, the suburbs, god. Those attacks aren’t...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Is a Perfect Time to Soak the Rich
Last week, while as many as 25 million laid-off workers lost their weekly $600 federal unemployment supplement and Congress bickered over government aid for people cut off from their income, Amazon...
View ArticleThe Pioneering Morality of Raven Leilani’s Luster
Edie, the 23-year-old resident of a mouse-infested Bushwick walkup and the narrator of Raven Leilani’s debut novel Luster, has an editorial position at a children’s book publisher until she loses it by...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Bond Between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
What many forget about Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign was that, for the most part, she was a happy warrior. Sure, her slash-and-burn attack on Joe Biden over busing in their first debate last...
View ArticleWe Can’t Fight Climate Change Without China
As lawmakers bickered over the next stimulus package in late July, the Democratic Party unveiled an election 2020 draft platform suggesting an unusual amount of bipartisan unity on one issue: China....
View ArticleTrump’s “Blasphemous” Attacks on Biden Were Torn From the Republican Hymnal
Trump’s latest slate of rhetorical outrages began with an interview with Geraldo Rivera on Thursday, during which he made a largely faith-based case against Joe Biden. “I’m in favor of the Bible, I’m...
View ArticleThe Women Who Still Can’t Vote
As we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment this month, it’s tempting to assume that women’s suffrage is complete. Yet millions of women—because they are incarcerated or on...
View ArticleMillionaire Coaches and Republican Blowhards Have Derailed the Fight for...
It doesn’t take much to defang a movement. Last week, a group of college athletes in the Pac-12 Conference released a list of demands to create an equitable work environment. The list included the...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Coded Message to White-Nationalist “Accelerationists”
Even as his campaign stumbles through these bleak late-summer months, beset by a nationwide health and economic crisis that’s largely of his own making, President Donald Trump is blowing full-bore on...
View ArticleA Government Too Broken to Write $600 Checks
As July ended, the Department of Commerce announced that the economy had contracted by nearly a third; the Department of Labor reported that 1.43 million Americans had lost their jobs. And shortly...
View ArticleIf Donald Trump Can’t Make History, He’ll Steal It Instead
Abraham Lincoln argued that what the Union had achieved at Gettysburg would resonate throughout American history and that no flesh-and-blood mortal had the power to diminish it. “In a larger sense, we...
View ArticleJared Kushner, Deputy Assistant Ratfucker
After donning a flak jacket and working vainly for nearly four years on Mideast peace, the opioid crisis, the federal bureaucracy, the criminal justice system, the second Great Depression, the novel...
View ArticleThe Inevitability of Defending Henry Kissinger
Barry Gewen introduces his study of Henry Kissinger, The Inevitability of Tragedy, with an anecdote that may be more telling than he intended. “A couple of years ago, I was having dinner with a...
View ArticleSelf-Interest, Wrongly Understood
Back in April, when New York City was the epicenter of the Covid-19 crisis, The New York Times’ Bret Stephens published a column entitled “New York Rules Can’t Apply to All.” The inset quote that...
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Fear of a Black Uprising
The summer of 2020 will be recorded as a once-in-a-generation uprising against police brutalization of Black people. The multiracial protests that erupted in all 50 states seemed to break the...
View ArticleFox News Is Leading the Attack on Kamala Harris
On Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson tried to channel Edward R. Murrow. Discussing Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Carlson flew into a rage after being...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos’s Plot to Enrich Private Schools Amid the Pandemic
How much more does the Trump administration value the children of elite private and religious schools than the children who attend public schools? We can answer the question with some hard numbers....
View ArticleAmerica Needs Its Own BBC to Restore Public Trust in the Press
Public trust in the media has reached an all-time low, according to a poll of over 20,000 people released last week by Gallup and the Knight Foundation. “Americans have not only lost confidence in the...
View Article“Fiasco” Stars the Real Heroes of Boston’s School Desegregation
The effect of Louise Day Hicks’s voice lay as much in its texture as her words. She was careful to keep her racism from spilling into the explicit, so when the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1965...
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