America’s Unlikely Savior
Sisyphus finally got the boulder up the hill. And Joe Biden—48 years after he was elected to the Senate and 33 years after he launched his first race for the White House—is president-elect.His belated...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Joe Biden’s Triumph
An unshakable feature of the last four years has been this heavy, crushing incredulity that Donald Trump managed to become president. A lot of things had to go right for him at once, and he was...
View ArticleThe Election Is Over. Here’s a Vision From the Left for the Next Four Years.
We have a new president, but little else has changed in terms of the work ahead. A Biden administration may be more vulnerable to pressure from the left, but its positions on climate disaster, police...
View ArticleDonald Trump Lost the Election. He’s Losing His Party, Too.
Let’s be clear about what we are seeing. President Trump is doing all that he can to prevent ballots against him from being counted in an election he has now lost. He and his surrogates are encouraging...
View ArticleTrump Has Never Been More Dangerous Than He Is Now
Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States. But we are now in President Trump’s lame-duck period, a roughly two-and-a-half-month interregnum that the country must endure before Biden takes...
View ArticleTrump Is Still the President, and the Pandemic Is Getting Worse
The election of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States heralds a massive change in the U.S. approach to controlling the coronavirus pandemic—a shift from a president who has...
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A Weeklong Election, in Pictures
Most of America spent this week at home watching the events of this drawn-out election play out on their screens. But the anxiety, the anger, the joy, and the relief of this week didn’t take place...
View ArticleHow Biden Can Beat Covid-19
In many ways, Decision 2020 came down to the pandemic. Vice President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris made coronavirus control a central part of their message to voters. “I’m not going to shut down the...
View ArticleAlaska Offers Biden the Slimmest of Hopes for a Democratic Senate
As the 2020 election finally unwinds, Democrats seeking a majority in the Senate have turned their eyes south, to the two pending runoff votes in Georgia, which could produce an even 50–50 split in the...
View ArticleIn The Undoing, a Grisly Murder Rocks High Society Manhattan
Everybody loves to watch “smug marrieds”—to borrow Bridget Jones’s phrase—fall apart, and if they’re rich, then all the better. That lust for schadenfreude is what sells tabloid stories about celebrity...
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How to De-Trumpify the Justice Department
In late August, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced that it had issued requests to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan concerning their handling of the coronavirus in...
View ArticleThe Left Must Hit the Streets Again—Right Now
Enough about Donald Trump: The opportunity to plan beyond him is among the most important privileges the Democratic Party and the country won last week. Unless Democrats sweep the Georgia runoffs in...
View ArticleThe Democrats Will Suffer if They Abandon the Green New Deal
Did Joe Biden’s much-publicized suggestion that he wanted to “transition” off fossil fuels during a presidential debate cost him the election? Evidently not. Biden is projected to flip Pennsylvania...
View ArticleConsider the Bootlicker
The Trump era is not yet over, and the Biden administration has not yet begun. There are still another two months for horrible things to continue to happen and then another four years for, hopefully,...
View ArticleTrump’s New Self-Care Routine: Filing Sad Lawsuits
President Trump does not believe in the legitimacy of the electoral process unless he wins—and sometimes, not even then. In 2016, he complained after the Iowa caucuses that “either a new election...
View ArticleThere’s a Lot We Don’t Know About the Promising Covid Vaccine
Pfizer and BioNTech, a German biotechnology company, announced Monday that their coronavirus vaccine may be 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, according to early results. Although experts...
View ArticleIvanka in Exile
What now, for Ivanka Trump? Since publishing her unpleasant-to-pronounce self-help book, Women Who Work, in 2017 and closing her poorly performing personal fashion line in 2018, the favorite first...
View ArticleHow the World Gave Up on the Stateless
For almost a decade, Josef Ben-David was stateless. The son of a Jewish elementary school teacher in Czarist Russia, he hated his native country, where prevalent antisemitism made his life impossible....
View ArticlePostelection Misinformation and Massacre Threats on Conservatives’ Favorite...
If you want to understand the state of social media, take a look at a Twitter account called @FacebooksTop10. Maintained by New York Times journalist Kevin Roose, the account tweets a daily list of the...
View ArticleWhy Are Democrats Shielding Republican Liars?
Speaking with CNN on Tuesday morning, Democratic Senator Chris Coons danced a tired routine. As the interview turned toward the refusal by Republican congressional leaders to refute the lame-duck...
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