Republicans Want Impunity, Not Unity
For the past two months, the bulk of the Republican Party and the conservative movement has pushed unhinged conspiracy theories about election fraud. Most of them stood back and stood by while...
View ArticleIndian Country Refuses to Be Corporate America’s Dumping Ground
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a single, massive victory to one of the thousands of communities and tribal nations currently struggling with the toxic waste left behind by profitable...
View ArticleAgainst a Domestic Terrorism Law
On Monday, Opposite Office, an “activistic architecture studio” based in Munich, released design materials for what it called “Capitol Castle,” a plan that would encircle the entire U.S. Capitol with...
View ArticleHow a Democratic Senate Can Ease the Coronavirus Crisis
Last week, only hours before armed but frequently maskless insurrectionists invaded the U.S. Capitol, there was a spot of bright news for Covid-19 relief in Washington. Democrats Reverend Raphael...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase and Amazon Discover Campaign Finance Reform by Way of Social...
In the last week, Marriott, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Commerce Bank have each paused donations to congressional supporters of the Capitol riot. So have Amazon, Comcast, and GE. (Flaming a violent...
View ArticleTrump Still Has Cable News
Over the course of a few extraordinary hours on Friday, Donald Trump’s iPhone was rendered almost completely useless—it can, presumably, still make calls and take photos, but that’s it. The president...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg, Resign
Hours after President Trump falsely claimed victory in November’s election, having claimed for weeks that the election was a fraud and Democrats would try to steal it, a Facebook group was created,...
View ArticleIs Tether Just a Scam to Enrich Bitcoin Investors?
Consumers who invest in cryptoassets “should be prepared to lose all their money,” the U.K’s Financial Conduct Authority warned cryptocurrency investors on Monday. That message came amid an 11 percent...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Companies Are No Friend to Democracy
In the past week, a number of oil and gas companies have issued statements of concern about the January 6 attack on the Capitol. BP, ConocoPhillips, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, and the Independent...
View ArticleAgainst Remote Work
As its boosters have long argued, remote work offers any number of obvious benefits. Companies save money on rent; employees don’t have to commute; and everyone, without the distractions of the office,...
View ArticleTranscript: The Future of Telecommuting
A transcript of Episode 23 of The Politics of Everything, “Against Remote Work”Laura Marsh: If you do an office job, there’s a good chance you spent a lot of the last year staring at your colleagues on...
View ArticleRepublicans Rethink “Law and Order” Once They Become Its Target
In the wake of last week’s Capitol riot, the path to Congress now includes a metal detector. To secure the chamber, Capitol police set up a security checkpoint outfitted with a series of magnometers....
View ArticleLiz and Dick Cheney Are No American Heroes
In the wake of the deadly January 6 raid on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, some Republicans have broken away to support impeachment or otherwise criticize the president for catalyzing...
View ArticleThe Call Is Coming From Inside the House (and Senate)
Congress hasn’t been immune to violence among its members over the past 200 years. In her book The Field of Blood, which delves into lawmakers’ unruly behavior in the early republic, historian Joanne...
View ArticleImpeaching Trump Is a Pyrrhic Victory
Wednesday was the second saddest day in modern history on Capitol Hill.As the House voted to impeach Donald Trump for a second time, the Capitol was ringed by more American troops than are on duty in...
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August Wilson’s Uncompromising Vision for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
August Wilson had a magnificent ear. His supreme gift as a playwright was for transforming African American vernacular into crystalline poetry onstage. His sense for language was also evident in how he...
View ArticleThe War on Terror Only Created More Terror in America
Historians will spend decades parsing the tragic from the ridiculous in the events of the first few weeks of 2021, and many books will be written about the Capitol insurrection alone—perhaps the...
View ArticleThe Dream Job That Wasn’t
When I was young, my dream job was to be a horse. I didn’t want to be a horse girl, but a girl who is a horse. This made sense to me back then and also now. People respect horses, whose reputation is...
View ArticleThe Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America
White evangelicals believe they see truths that you and I cannot. While Americans around the country watched an inflamed mob overrun the Capitol on January 6, the evangelical participants in that mob...
View ArticleThe Incredible Power and Learned Helplessness of Twitter and Facebook
Despite being the CEO of both Twitter and the payments company Square, Jack Dorsey has an aw-shucks habit of seeming uncomfortable with the power he wields. On Wednesday, he tweeted a stem-winding...
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