The Infernal Challenge of Ending “Kids In Cages”
While the Trump presidency is over and the former president, by dint of being denied his preferred social media perches, is no longer toxifying the scene with his rhetoric, the poison he left behind is...
View ArticleMost of the World Has a Simple Vaccine Request. America Isn’t Listening.
On Thursday night, President Joe Biden announced in his televised address that he was directing states to make all adults eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine by the start of May. The cheery...
View ArticleHow America Segregates Drug Use
The sudden overdose deaths of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Prince, in 2014 and 2016, happened during wall-to-wall coverage of an emerging crisis, which had come to be known as the “opioid epidemic.” A 60...
View ArticleFlorida’s Poop Problem Is Killing Manatees
Dead manatees, climate change, poop water: In the past few months, it’s become clear that Florida’s multiyear reckoning with intersecting environmental crises is coming to a head. The quality of the...
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Saving the Climate in a Triple Crisis
Capitalism is facing three major crises. A pandemic-induced health crisis has rapidly ignited an economic crisis with yet unknown consequences for financial stability, and all of this is playing out...
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Republicans Greet Covid Stimulus With Another Round of Inflation Fearmongering
Predictably, conservatives are once again warning about inflation. This happens every time a Democrat takes office—even if he merely continues the identical policies of his Republican predecessor....
View ArticleSarah Everard and the Useless Generality of “Male Violence”
Sarah Everard, to hear her story told for her now, was killed “after doing everything she was supposed to do. She took a longer route that was well-lit and populated. She wore bright clothes and shoes...
View ArticleThe Post-Trump Crack-Up of the Evangelical Community
In 2017, beloved Bible teacher and evangelical personality Beth Moore had the chance to meet a theologian she’d long admired. As she later recounted on her blog, she was eager to share a meal with the...
View ArticleHow Biden Can Transform America’s Foreign Policy
Failed wars have bookended President Biden’s political career. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, when the futility and misguidedness of our war in Vietnam were clear. He ran as an...
View ArticleGas Price Wars Are Back and More Incoherent Than Ever
Gas prices in the United States are rising. Like clockwork, the GOP is blaming this on Joe Biden. “Since President Biden took office, average gas prices are up more than 50 cents a gallon,” Florida...
View ArticleWhy Landlords Target Mothers for Eviction
In February, a white man showed up at Patricia Mendoza’s door and informed her that the month-to-month lease for her two-bedroom apartment in Imperial Beach, California, would be terminated on April...
View ArticleJoe Biden Hasn’t Held a Press Conference. Who Cares?
On Monday, the Biden administration unveiled an unofficial slogan for its first 50-odd days: “100 million shots in arms and 100 million checks in pockets,” tweeted Chief of Staff Ron Klain. It’s not...
View ArticleFacebook Has Found a New Way to Ruin Media
For a company that says it’s not a publisher, Facebook just can’t stay away from the news industry. According to Axios, Facebook is testing a tool for journalists to build websites and newsletters that...
View ArticleMitch McConnell Doesn’t Care About Saving the Senate
Pop culture usually depicts the filibuster with senators making lengthy speeches on the floor to indefinitely delay bills that they passionately oppose. Jimmy Stewart’s character in Mr. Smith Goes to...
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The Lost Plan for a Black Utopian Town
In 1946, a young Black G.I. named Floyd McKissick stood amid the bombed-out rubble of Tourcoing in northern France. His unit was helping rebuild the city, and he wondered why Americans couldn’t embark...
View ArticleThe Right’s Fight Against LGBTQ Rights Is More Than a Culture War
For the first time, the Equality Act, the federal legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, will get a hearing in the Senate, when the...
View ArticleThe Cousinhood That Still Rules Britain
It’s no secret that Britain has in recent years been something of a mess, yet the Conservative Party’s popularity continues unabated. Why don’t British voters blame Boris Johnson or his party for the...
View ArticleTucker Carlson Is Leading the Anti-Vax Right
In an email to staff last week, Fox News’s Lachlan Murdoch announced that the network won’t be reopening its offices until Labor Day. “The health and safety of our workforce has remained my priority,”...
View ArticleBreak up the Telecom Giants
Early in February, a strange and humbly formatted quarter-page ad appeared in The Wall Street Journal. It was an open letter to AT&T CEO John Stankey from one Aaron M. Epstein of North Hollywood,...
View ArticleHow The New York Times Blew the Cuomo Story
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing the densest thicket of scandals to ensnare any American politician since—well, the end of the Trump administration less than two months ago. Even so, the...
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