A Sister Souljah Moment to Rule Them All
In a major speech in Pittsburgh on Monday, Joe Biden condemned President Trump for fueling the last few months of unrest in cities across the country, including the murder of two protesters last week...
View ArticleLake Charles Was Destroyed by Hurricane Laura. America Has Already Moved On.
When Hurricane Laura hit last week, all I could think about was Katrina. The world considers August 29 the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For New Orleans residents like myself, that date marks the...
View ArticleElon Musk Thinks His Treatment of Workers Is a “Trade Secret”
Leave it to Elon Musk and his ilk to show that paying companies to create good, green jobs is easier said than done. Right now, his companies are opposing a California bill that will allow the public...
View ArticleThe Suburbs Are Still Hell
Before he vaulted to infamy in August for allegedly shooting three people and killing two in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse led a regular teenager’s life in the Illinois village of...
View ArticleThe End of the Voter-Consumer
With the conventions behind us, it’s clear that Republicans are running full speed ahead on consolidating our country’s lurch toward fascism, stoking fears of leftist-driven mass chaos engulfing...
View Article“The Whole Family Was Swept Away”
The 2016 West Virginia flood—considered a 1,000-year natural event with a 0.1 percent probability of happening in any given year—ravaged Greenbrier County on June 23 that year. Torrential rain and...
View ArticleCovid Patients Are Receiving Eye-Popping Bills. It’s Not All Trump’s Fault.
Stop the presses: A Trump administration program is being badly run and failing to do what it promised. It may be shocking, but it’s true; collect yourself from the floor and steel yourself to read...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Absurd Quest to Turn Biden Into Trump
Earlier this week, Joe Biden spoke about the recent protests and violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The crux of his remarks—and an emerging theme of his campaign—was a simple question: “Does anyone...
View ArticleThe Hollow Gospel of Personal Investing Apps
Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, the millennial founders of the investing app Robinhood, have long claimed that their inspiration was Occupy Wall Street, the anti-capitalist movement that agitated against...
View ArticleThe Making of the “Good CIA”
For decades, it’s been an article of faith among leftists that the CIA is fundamentally malign, and has been since its founding. Its purpose was to extend American hegemony; its method dirty tricks...
View ArticleWall Street’s Greedy Indifference to Human Misery
With Labor Day fast approaching, unemployment stands at 10.2 percent, gross domestic product is down 31.7 percent, and the stock market is at or near record highs. The economy, as it’s commonly...
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The Battle of Portland
On Day 50 of the Portland protests, in the middle of July, I caught a face full of aerosolized Mace. I didn’t yet appreciate the finer distinctions among Mace spray, pepper pellets, and tear gas. The...
View ArticleYou Might Not Know If Your Kid Has Covid-19
Yes, kids can get Covid-19. They can also spread it. They might even be better at spreading it than adults are. You wouldn’t know that from listening to the White House, though. “It’s not just that...
View ArticleWhy Matt Drudge’s Feud With Donald Trump Matters
In the summer of 2016, Matt Drudge hammered the same story again and again on his eponymous news aggregation website, the Drudge Report: Hillary Clinton was not well. She was old and sick and feeble,...
View ArticleYour State Flag Might Not Be Racist, but It’s Offensively Ugly
There are few symbols more potent in American life than the national flag. Colin Kaepernick helped fuel a movement by kneeling during a ceremony that honors it; President Donald Trump once proposed...
View ArticleBig Oil’s Evil, Stupid Plan to Drown the World in Plastic
What do you do if you’re an oil company with too much oil? You find a place—any place—to put it. If people aren’t driving or flying as much, they’re certainly having things delivered. That’s where the...
View ArticleOur Summer of American Nihilism
In a recent interview on The Ringer’s 10 Questions podcast, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins—a man who says he keeps a four-foot-tall pile of rocks outside his garage to remind him of his own...
View ArticleThis Is What Trumpism After Trump Looks Like
The event from this summer that best captured the chaotic energy of the GOP heading into the presidential election was not the Republican National Convention, with its high-decibel roster of party...
View ArticleA Bold New Plan to Turn the Rust Belt Blue
For decades, workers, millions of them—steelworkers and social workers, truck drivers and teachers—have been flooded with labor union phone calls and flyers every four years. But for many of them, when...
View ArticleAmerica Is Not Reliving 1968
For me, the year 1968 is symbolized by a single dark evening that haunts me to this day. I was at the campus paper, the Michigan Daily, when the bulletin came over the clattering AP newswire that Bobby...
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