The Agenda Is Still Survival
At the start of the week, as the Trump coup attempt cranked into gear, there was yet another entry in the Democratic Party’s continued identity crisis. In dueling interviews with The New York Times,...
View ArticleThe Media Is Already Rehabilitating the GOP—and Walking America Into a Trap
On Monday, as White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany delivered a baseless rant about voter fraud to reporters and the American public, Fox News host Neil Cavuto decided to pull the plug. “Unless...
View ArticleModerate Democrats Can Call the Green New Deal Whatever They Want
During a recent Axios on HBO interview, Jon Ossoff, the perpetual Democratic candidate who faces Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue in a January runoff election, was asked whether he supports a...
View ArticleThe Media Finally Figured Out Trump. Now Do the GOP.
Republican officials across the country are backing Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of a lawful and legitimate election. They are questioning vote counts at the state level, while...
View ArticleThis Is (Probably) Not a Coup D’État
No one should feel ashamed for being worried about the state of America’s electoral democracy right now. This weekend, candidate Joe Biden became President-elect Joe Biden after securing the Electoral...
View ArticleThe Case for Prosecuting Trump and His Cronies
Up until five years ago, the criminalization of one’s political opponents was patently taboo in the United States. Presidential candidates did not haphazardly accuse their rivals of criminal behavior;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Never-Ending Crisis of the Electoral College
“The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy.”—Donald Trump, November 6, 2012“The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play....
View ArticleWill Biden Repeat Obama’s Mistakes?
Joe Biden, while running for president, suggested he was aiming for a Rooseveltian presidency. Progressives who voted for him now want to hold him to that and make sure he presides over a recovery from...
View ArticleNew York’s Feckless, Scientifically Illiterate Response to the Covid Second...
In July, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled a poster to commemorate what New York had just suffered. It depicted a mountain in the shape of the state’s Covid-19 case count. “We went up the...
View ArticleCan Book Publishers Afford to Publish Donald Trump?
When (if?) Donald Trump leaves office, he will be deeply in debt and starved of the bully pulpit that has made him an inescapable focus of attention. Ever since he lost the presidential election, many...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Is in Charge Now
After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death in September, liberals spent seven weeks before the presidential election discussing the merits of Supreme Court reform. Should Democrats respond to Amy Coney...
View ArticleMy Quest for a Job at the Trump White House
According to two sources familiar with the situation, as well as written communications … the White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO) is still in the process of vetting candidates for job...
View ArticleWaiting for Diana
In 1981, in their first public appearance after their wedding, Prince Charles and Princess Diana visited Brecon, a small town in Wales with a population a little under 8,000. “It was very cold, but...
View ArticleRepublican Malice Has Turned the Pandemic Into a Deadly Loop
In a recent interview with Eater, San Francisco restaurant owner Pim Techamuanvivit articulated the bind she currently finds herself in: The pandemic has cratered her business at the same time that...
View ArticleA Coup Is a Coup
Depending on one’s outlook, this week has felt either unsettlingly ominous or unbearably silly. It began with Attorney General Bill Barr stopping by Capitol Hill to chat with Senate Majority Leader...
View ArticlePhiladelphia’s Election Results Are a Warning to the Democratic Party
Throughout this election cycle, pundits and Electoral College–watchers trained their gaze on Pennsylvania, singling it out as the state that would likely determine the winner of the presidency. And as...
View ArticleSamuel Alito Is Tired of Winning
An inescapable risk in writing about current events is that they have the tendency to swiftly overtake the last thing you wrote. On Thursday afternoon, I filed an article explaining why the Supreme...
View ArticleThe Brewing Democratic Fight Over Biden’s Cabinet
There was a moment this summer when Joe Biden’s promise to deliver an “FDR-size” presidency was almost credible. Desperate to shore up his support from dejected Bernie voters and galvanized by Covid-19...
View ArticleWhy Attack on Titan Is the Alt-Right’s Favorite Manga
Isayama Hajime worked nights at an internet café. He found the customers strange and often frightening. Many wandered around aimlessly, struggled to communicate, were drunk and belligerent. Inspired by...
View ArticleDon’t Blame the Left for the Democrats’ Losses
The fight over who and what’s to blame for Democratic underperformance down ballot in the 2020 election is proceeding, for the most part, as though the election never really happened. The arguments...
View Article