Will Joe Biden Betray the Climate Movement Like Justin Trudeau Did?
Tzeporah Berman has some words of warning for climate advocates elated that Donald Trump will no longer be president: Don’t do what Canadian activists did five years ago. Just as the American left...
View ArticleThe Importance of Brutal Honesty in This Pandemic Winter
In an address on Monday afternoon, Joe Biden offered a bleak preview of winter. “We need to be honest,” the president-elect said. “The next few weeks and months are going to be very tough ... maybe the...
View ArticleCancel Our Debts, Then Cancel Debt
The story of the pandemic is also a story about debt. One recent survey, conducted in October, found that more than a quarter of respondents had accumulated over $10,000 in new debts during the crisis....
View ArticleThe Future of Trumpism Is Not Josh Hawley. It’s Trump.
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley announced on Wednesday that he would take the courageous step of trying to overthrow an American election. When Congress formally counts the Electoral College votes on...
View ArticleThe Complicated Truth of Climate Change in the Marshall Islands
In 2011, as an anxious Republican from Utah, I fly with my husband and nine-month-old son to Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands. We fly D.C. to L.A., L.A. to Honolulu, then Honolulu...
View ArticleA Pandemic Dividend for Every American
With vaccinations underway and the Biden administration about to assume power, attention will soon return to an assessment of the true damage that Covid-19 has wreaked on the American economy. At this...
View ArticleThe Accused Fraudster Behind the Bitcoin Boom
Times are bad, which means, by the perverse logic of American capitalism, stock markets and speculative investments are flourishing. Bitcoin, the digital currency whose value is pegged to nothing but...
View ArticleHow Biden Can Bring Transparency Back to Government
On January 20, workers will disinfect every inch of the White House complex to prepare it for the new administration. While they’re doing that, President-elect Joe Biden could do some sanitizing of his...
View ArticleThe Long Plot to Escape From Work
Tommy, who retired at 51, built savings using a combination of “automatic payroll deductions, compounding interest, reinvested dividends, stock growth, consistent dollar-cost averaging,” and a...
View ArticleThe Artist Isn’t Dead
I studied to be a painter in college and had what I now know is a pretty common experience. My fellow students and I produced dumpster loads of bad art, debated theory that was nearly 20 years out of...
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The Perpetual Disappointment of Remote Work
What will the Covid-19 pandemic look like from the future? Perhaps the exceptional imagery will be most lasting: personless cityscapes, protesters in masks (and anti-mask protesters), the empty shelves...
View ArticleThe Bungled Vaccine Rollout Is a Bad Omen
Millions of usable Covid-19 vaccine doses in the United States could expire by the end of January before being administered. Roughly 10 percent of the available 40 million doses have been dispatched so...
View ArticleCan a Union Make Google Less Evil?
On Monday, with a rollout full of social media fanfare and a declaration of intent on the New York Times opinion page, the workers of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced the formation of a...
View ArticleThe Election in Georgia Is About Reproductive Justice
For 48 hours in the lead-up to Georgia’s general election, Malika Redmond, director of a grassroots voter engagement group, was working without electricity. “I laugh now,” she told me. “Hurricane Zeta...
View ArticleTrump Blew Up Ted Cruz’s Cynical Plan to Contest the Election
“All I want to do is this,” Donald Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a rambling, lie- and conspiracy-infested hourlong telephone call on Saturday. “I just want to find...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the Facebook Menace
Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources of the highest-performing links on Facebook in the United States.On one...
View ArticleWho Really Loses When America Phases Out Natural Gas?
On Sunday, The New York Times published a piece profiling a handful of recent college grads, all outfitted with varying forms of geology or engineering degrees and struggling to find a foothold in the...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Historical Precedent for Ted Cruz’s Shameless Electoral College...
One hundred and forty-five years ago, the United States was locked in a constitutional crisis. Bloodshed and intimidation against Black voters and their white Republican allies in the South had...
View ArticleCrying at Work Isn’t the Answer
It all started with an Instagram ad. The item for sale was a graphic tee with large, feminine typography that said: I cry at work. The shirt, by the Los Angeles–based company ban.do, cost $38. By the...
View ArticleCan Oysters Save Our Seas?
You know who had a weirdly great 2020? “Oysters,” Rachel Dean told me. Oysters grew fatter and faster than expected last year, and diners frequently weren’t around to eat them.Rachel and her husband,...
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