The Elusive Dream of a Functioning Native Caucus
Rudy Soto, a Shosone-Bannock citizen running for a House seat for Idaho’s First District, had to remind me of something that can be surprisingly easy to forget: There is, technically, already a Native...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Case for the Two-Day Workweek
It’s not like you really need data to confirm that things are bad right now—being alive and awake should take care of that—but the latest reports do support the general thesis: Coronavirus infections...
View ArticleIs Fox News Ready for Former President Trump?
Rupert Murdoch may be “resigned” to a Trump loss, according to a recent Washington Post report, but he needn’t fret about the future of his media empire. No matter who emerges victorious on Tuesday,...
View ArticleLibertarian vs. Bear
In the early 2000s, a group of libertarians moved to a small town in New Hampshire, where they set about slashing the municipal budget. The newcomers wanted to be free from taxes and government...
View ArticleIs Biden Ready for a Helter-Skelter Presidential Transition?
God willing, we will know who our next president is sometime late Tuesday night and it will be Joe Biden. It’s of course possible that Donald Trump may refuse to concede and try to get the 6–3...
View ArticleA Groundbreaking New History of Gay Sex and Capitalism
In the earliest phase of European capitalism, Marx’s old story goes, a significant number of laborers renounced agrarian communities for towns and cities, dissolving the family unit and moving from one...
View ArticleWhy Ohio Is the State to Watch on Election Night
Veteran Ohio Democratic strategist Greg Haas has a vision. “At 11:05 on election night, the returns are going to show Ohio going for Joe Biden,” he said. “And all across the country, people are going...
View ArticleThe Libertarian Moment That Never Comes
Nearly four years removed from its best electoral performance in history, libertarianism finds itself on familiar terrain: tantalizingly close to a breakout moment that remains forever out of reach....
View ArticleThe Fate of American Democracy Is in the Hands of Cable News
The 2020 presidential election could very well be messy, complex, and slow, defined by an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots, legal challenges, and possibly recounts reminiscent of the fiasco in...
View ArticleIt’s Already Happening Here
Fascism is the outcome of a collective incapacity to think. This is how, in 1939, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges explained the success of Adolf Hitler. From his marginal observation post in Buenos...
View ArticleThe Violence and Hope in Texas Is Our Future
In 2020 in Texas, depending on which county they live in, a voter can head to the polls at 3 a.m. Or they can drive for several hours to drop their ballot off at the one box in their county of...
View ArticleWhat Do We Do About All These Trump Supporters?
Hockey icon Bobby Orr broke the hearts of millions last week when he declared his support for Donald Trump in a campaign ad in New Hampshire. Not because he exercised his free-speech rights. Not...
View ArticleThe Crushing Anxiety of the Worst Election of Our Lifetimes
I’ve always had trouble watching the countdown to Election Day. Even in a cycle that passes for normal, issues get reduced to talking points trotted out for their appeal to marginal polling...
View ArticleThis Was Always Going to Become Normal
The warnings started early: Just weeks before the 2016 election, after the leak of the Access Hollywood tapes that captured Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault, Michelle Obama told a crowd at a...
View ArticleEven the Pandemic Couldn’t Kill Trumpism
The promise at the heart of Joe Biden’s campaign wasn’t simply that he would beat Donald Trump, although his entire candidacy was premised on the idea that he could do that better than any of the...
View ArticleThere Will Be No Emphatic Rejection of Trump
It has become an All About Eve election. Everything that happened before 1 a.m. on Wednesday has fulfilled Bette Davis’s cinematic prediction, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy...
View ArticleElection Day Was Peaceful—Then Trump Opened His Mouth
The 2020 election was never going to be easy to conduct. This year saw a pandemic kill more than 230,000 people throughout the country, widespread protests and civil unrest over police brutality...
View ArticleThe U.S. Is Now Officially Out of the Paris Agreement
Two years after a flashy press conference in the White House Rose Garden, the United States officially filed notice last fall that it would be leaving the Paris Agreement—the international community’s...
View ArticleUber and Lyft Bought Themselves Impunity, Again
This year’s presidential race has, as initially predicted, refused to end in any kind of timely or tidy manner. But we do know a bit about what happened last night in several down-ballot campaigns. One...
View ArticleNever Trust the Polls Again!
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Heading into Tuesday’s election, the public polling told the same story, over and over again. Joe Biden had a commanding lead in the national popular vote, somewhere...
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