Can Biden Keep His Promise to Make Farms Climate Friendly?
Last month, when asked on Pod Save America to name three or four things atop his first-term agenda, Joe Biden mentioned a surprising topic: farm policy. “I know it’s boring as hell, but it’s...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Obamacare Bait and Switch
Immediately after the conclusion of Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments concerning the bid of 18 red-state attorneys general, backed by the Trump administration, to strike the Affordable Care Act down in...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Is Dead. It’s the Trump Cult Now.
Donald Trump is the past, present, and future of the Republican Party. And that is because the GOP is no longer a traditional political party designed to win elections so that it can enact a policy...
View ArticleBlue States Will Have to Lead the Climate Fight Under Biden, Too
Donald Trump’s election was a near-apocalyptic moment for many in the climate movement. The 2016 election took place during the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, where advocates,...
View Article“This Is Not a Silver Bullet for the Pandemic”
Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their vaccine is more than 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, which was followed on Monday by Moderna declaring that its vaccine is 94.5 percent...
View ArticleCharles Koch Got the Free-Market Dystopia He Wanted. Now He’d Like Your...
Billionaire Charles Koch—who, alongside his late brother, is best known for funding a host of conservative and libertarian think tanks, donating lavishly to Republicans, and otherwise flooding the...
View ArticleKristi Noem’s War on Tribal Sovereignty Is Going to Get People Killed
South Dakota currently ranks second in the nation for Covid-19 cases, and first in hospitalizations. On Saturday, the state reported its highest daily death total of the year. Yet, as of writing,...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Versus the Coronavirus
Among the major issues that the Supreme Court could weigh in on over the next few months is the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly a quarter-million Americans since March and now rages...
View ArticleThe Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Put Japan’s Climate Policy in a Decade-Long...
The Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in Okuma, Japan, on March 11, 2011, was one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Some of the impacts can be easily quantified: 150,000 people were evacuated due to...
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The Littlest Prince
Donald Trump’s presidency could only ever have ended one way, but there was still a certain flubby majesty to how it happened. As the outcome of the election became clearer and more irrefutable—as the...
View ArticleBarack Obama, Media Critic
As his feud with Fox News has intensified—and as his pathetic attempt to overturn a legitimate election becomes more harebrained—Donald Trump has drifted further and further into the fringes. Newsmax...
View ArticleBanal Smartphone Apps Are the New Surveillance State
In 2012, Factual, a Los Angeles–based technology company, had world-conquering ambitions. Intoxicated by the utopian rhetoric surrounding the growing field of big data, it planned to collect...
View ArticleScott Atlas, Star Disciple in Trump’s Covid Death Cult
On Sunday, as Covid-19 cases in Michigan surged, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a new set of temporary restrictions on certain indoor gatherings and activities. The three-week pandemic order will...
View ArticleTranscript: Joe Biden’s Cabinet
A transcript of Episode 20 of The Politics of Everything, “Fantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet.” Alex Pareene: I’m Alex Pareene. I’m a staff writer at The New Republic.Laura Marsh: And I’m Laura...
View ArticleFantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet
Who should President-elect Biden ask to join his Cabinet? Everyone has an opinion, and most of the opinions are terrible. On Episode 20 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene...
View ArticleAn FDR-Size Executive Order for Biden
During his run for office, President-elect Joe Biden let out that he was aspiring to have an “FDR-size presidency.” But now that the dust has settled on the election, the Democrats’ failure to retake...
View ArticleThe Unpardonable Sins of Lindsey Graham
Some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill still aren’t quite willing to admit what was already obvious: President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. “You’re going to play gotcha...
View ArticleWhen the Protagonist Is a Literal Man-Eater
The rendered fat of dead animals may seem like an unlikely aphrodisiac, but the scent adheres to a certain erotic memory for Dorothy Daniels, the narrator of Chelsea G. Summers’s new novel, A Certain...
View ArticleJoe Biden Can’t Compromise With the Rising Seas
Climate activists got bad news on Monday, when word trickled out that Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond—among the top Democratic recipients of fossil fuel money in the House—had been tapped to lead...
View ArticleHayao Miyazaki’s Viral Stories
I may not have written my King Lear during the pandemic, but I certainly have told a lot of stories. This is because I spend my days minding a six-year-old. Since we have nothing else to do but...
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