Democrats Are Screwing Up Trump’s Impeachment Trial
When the second and final impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump begins Tuesday, Lewis Carroll may prove a better guide to unraveling the proceedings than the squads of legal experts in boxes on cable...
View ArticleThe Justice Department Is Way Too White
As Republicans continue to obstruct Merrick Garland’s nomination to serve as Joe Biden’s attorney general, it has been easy to forget that scores of Justice Department positions remain filled by acting...
View ArticleThe Alabama Town That Could Defeat Jeff Bezos
Some 5,800 people who work at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a town just outside of Birmingham, will receive union ballots on Monday. They have until March 29 to decide whether they want to...
View ArticleCan There Ever Be a Working-Class Republican Party?
“We are a working-class party now,” Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted at 10:53 p.m. Eastern time on election night in November. “That’s the future.” A few minutes later, Fox called...
View ArticleTesla’s Bitcoin Buy Is a Reckless, Destructive Troll
For the Bitcoin faithful, February 8 may be remembered as a holy day—and for the Securities and Exchange Commission, it may be another reason to investigate the professional troll and Tesla CEO Elon...
View ArticleThe Colorado River Crisis Is a National Crisis
The Colorado River supports over 40 million people spread across seven southwestern states, 29 tribal nations, and Mexico. It’s responsible for the irrigation of roughly 5.5 million acres of land...
View ArticleGeorge Shultz, the Godfather of the Discredited Laffer Curve
Former Secretary of State George Shultz died over the weekend at age 100. He received many accolades for being one of the last sane Republicans. Shultz was from the Eisenhower era of Republican...
View ArticleThe Historical Revisionism of Trump’s Impeachment Defense
Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial begins on Tuesday, and both of the legal teams have now filed their final briefs before the main event. Managers from the House of Representatives, who will...
View ArticleDon’t Believe the Bad Press About the Economic Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage
The reviews for a $15 hourly minimum wage are in, and they’re brutal. “Biden’s $15 Wage Bid Hits Headwind,” says Bloomberg. “Don’t Expect a $15 Minimum Wage: Goldman Sachs,” warns Yahoo!Money. “Raising...
View ArticleThe Unheroic Life of Stan Lee
A nerdy slacker is hanging around the mall, having been dumped by his girlfriend earlier that day. He is staring in the window of a lingerie store, when a sharply dressed older guy with gray hair and...
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The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem
In the dark recesses of the internet lurks a man who goes by ToxicCisWhiteMaleFat. He makes his home on onaforums.net, a community named after the shock jock duo Opie & Anthony—a safe space to say...
View ArticleOverworked, Underpaid, and Cutting Corners: The Crisis in Home Health Care
A few years ago, Stella started working as a nursing assistant at Almost Family in Chilton, Wisconsin. She liked the job at first—the hours were flexible, and she had a good connection with her...
View ArticleCan We Stop Obsessing Over Every Personnel Decision Made by The New York Times?
Who edits The New York Times? This is not, at least at first glance, a particularly complicated question. Dean Baquet has been the executive editor of the newspaper of record since 2014, a period of...
View ArticleThe Worst Impeachment Defense in American History
If you tuned in to the first day of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, you saw the process at its worst and its best. Tuesday’s proceedings were devoted to resolving the question of whether it...
View ArticleModerate Democrats’ Cruel Calculus on Who Deserves Stimulus Relief
Late last week, as Thursday turned into Friday, the Senate took the first major step toward passing the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package through budget reconciliation,...
View ArticleThe Unfulfilled Promise of Julian Bond
Three years before he died at 75 in 2015, Julian Bond sat down for an interview on his life and work. Asked how he would like to be remembered, Bond replied, with his characteristic alloy of amiable...
View ArticleThe Dakota Access Pipeline Trades Temporary Jobs for Lives
President Joe Biden has a decision to make. Wednesday, February 10, marks the court-mandated deadline for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to declare its immediate plans for the Dakota Access Pipeline,...
View ArticleA Covid Uprising in America’s Jails
Where there was once a window on an upper floor of the St. Louis City Justice Center stood a row of people in yellow prison uniforms, with masks over their noses and mouths, framed by shards of broken...
View ArticleBiden’s Pledge to Pull Back in Yemen Is Full of Holes
In a major foreign policy address at the State Department on February 4, President Joe Biden announced an end to U.S. support for the war in Yemen waged by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the...
View ArticleDoes Jack Dorsey Have Any Clue What He’s Doing?
Donald Trump, the twice-impeached former president, is permanently banned from Twitter. If you didn’t see this coming—if you expected Trump to return to shit-posting after being sent to the corner for...
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