American Agriculture Is Broken, and Tom Vilsack Is Not the Man to Fix It
Somewhere on Earth 2, President Boe Jiden, after committing to a thorough review of the groaning, creaking, top-heavy agriculture industry, has decided that the time has come to start fresh. There, the...
View ArticleThe White Tiger Inverts the Indian Rags-to-Riches Story
At first it may seem like Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger is another “poverty porn” film, a rising Hollywood genre in the mold of Slumdog Millionaire and Million Dollar Arm, in which Indian street...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo Needed Donald Trump
In a Friday news conference, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was asked about a report from the state’s attorney general that showed that nursing home deaths from Covid-19 had been severely...
View ArticleBlow Up the Donor-to-Ambassador Pipeline
Would you like to become a U.S. ambassador to a foreign country? You have two options. You can join the State Department as a career officer in the Foreign Service and spend a couple of decades rising...
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The Forever Disease: How Covid-19 Became a Chronic Condition
Covid-19 is a trickster. Those who have lived with it the longest often describe the disease as if it knows what mischief it’s making. Miel Singletary Schultz, a 48-year-old “long hauler” and former...
View ArticleBiden Is Wise to Negotiate With Senate Republicans
The scene Monday night was not high on the list of Democratic fantasies about a Joe Biden presidency: A smiling Susan Collins, flanked by Republican Senate colleagues, stood in the icy White House...
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Originalism Is Dead. Long Live Catholic Natural Law.
In October, The New York Times published an opinion essay by Berkeley law professor (and law school dean) Erwin Chemerinsky originally titled “Amy Coney Barrett’s Originalism Threatens Our Freedoms.”...
View ArticleTranscript: The Unsolved Mystery of Havana Syndrome
A transcript of Episode 24 of The Politics of Everything, “The Case of the Sick Spies”Tim Weiner: The building that houses American diplomats and spies in Havana is a heavily fortified compound, a big...
View ArticleGavin Newsom Is Blowing It
Few figures in recent American history have found a smoother path to power than California Governor Gavin Newsom. His father, a state appeals judge appointed during Jerry Brown’s first stint as...
View ArticleThe Rich Mothers of the Insurrection
One of the scariest female characters in English literature is Madame DeFarge, the wine shop owner whose face is the blank, pitiless gaze of the French Revolution’s Terror in Dickens’s A Tale of Two...
View ArticleThe Case of the Sick Spies
In late 2016, staff at the American Embassy in Havana began hearing strange noises and experiencing a range of odd symptoms: headaches, dizziness, ringing in the ears. Suspicion arose that they had...
View ArticleWhat Is Kink?
Kink is a new collection of short fiction edited by the novelists R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, including contributions from both. It’s a tasting menu of real variety, with flogged bottoms and...
View ArticleThe Cancer Eating the GOP Isn’t Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the freshman congresswoman from Georgia, is a QAnon devotee who has questions about whether or not a plane flew into the Pentagon on 9/11. She believes that Obama is a secret...
View ArticleJoe Manchin, King of the Senate
Liberals, still flush from defeating Trump and taking control of both houses of Congress, are adjusting to the grim reality that the fate of their bold legislative agenda lies with one of Washington’s...
View ArticleAmazon Won’t Stop Until It’s Devoured the Economy
On Tuesday, as Amazon announced record earnings amid the pandemic, CEO Jeff Bezos said that he would be stepping down from his position, passing the torch to Andy Jassy, who leads Amazon Web Services...
View ArticleThe Ascension of Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a video of herself titled “Marjorie Greene Confronts David Hogg” to YouTube on January 21, 2020, shot the year before. In it, she follows the Parkland shooting survivor...
View ArticleFree the Covid Vaccine Patents
President Joe Biden made the Defense Production Act (DPA) a key part of his campaign coronavirus platform. He began calling for the act to be invoked to boost mask production in March 2020. On his...
View ArticleEveryone Wins If the Republicans Banish Marjorie Taylor Greene—Including Her
The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on whether to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene, a freshman Republican lawmaker from Georgia, from her committee assignments. Steny Hoyer, the number-two...
View ArticleThe Human Factor Tallies the What Ifs of Israel-Palestine Peace Talks
The what-ifs of history are both tantalizing and tragic—and nowhere is this more true than when it comes to the impasse between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What if x hadn’t done y? And what if z...
View ArticleTrump’s Final Defense of His Presidency May Be His Most Deranged
Just over a month ago, rioters and insurrectionists attacked the Capitol and killed five people. They traipsed through the House and Senate chambers, taking photographs of themselves and rifling...
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