Matt Gaetz’s Trumpian Defense Against Allegations of Sex Trafficking
On Tuesday morning, Axios reported that Florida Representative Matt Gaetz was thinking about leaving Congress for a conservative media gig, perhaps at Newsmax or another friendly outlet. This wasn’t a...
View ArticleBiden Is Too Worried About the Deficit, Not Worried Enough About Climate Change
To meet the emissions targets outlined in the Paris Agreement, experts estimate the United States government will need to spend at least $1 trillion annually, or between 3 to 5 percent of GDP, for a...
View ArticleThe Haunted Imagination of Alfred Hitchcock
The twentieth century ushered in the age of the uncanny. The concept, of course, has always been with us, as we see from the earliest of the surviving great epics, Gilgamesh, haunted as it is by the...
View ArticleThe Eternal Quest for the Unicorn Apartment
No matter what kind of self-hypnotized state I’m in when scrolling on social media, I will always pause for a well-designed interior. The other day, I hovered over a video of a young woman giving a...
View ArticleThe “Root Cause” of Central American Migration Is Broken U.S. Policies
There’s an interesting turn of phrase that’s come to dominate the Biden administration’s rhetoric around immigration: “root causes.”This notion featured prominently in one of the president’s early...
View ArticleMass Incarceration Draws Its Own Maps and Creates a Country in Its Image
In 2008, a man named Danny Young received just two votes for his candidacy to the City Council in Anamosa, Iowa: one from his wife and one from his neighbor. Both were write-ins, but he still won...
View ArticleWhy Would Anyone Pay Andrew Cuomo $4 Million for a Book?
Seven years ago, on the eve of being elected to a second term as governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo completed a rite of passage familiar to all presidential aspirants: He published a memoir, All Things...
View ArticleOligarch of the Month: Rupert Murdoch
Ten days after the United Kingdom began doling out Covid-19 vaccine, Rupert Murdoch received his first dose. At that point, fewer than half a million people had been vaccinated worldwide. In a...
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Repair the Crumbling Infrastructure of the American Labor Movement
A former public affairs aide for the AFL-CIO once told me he spent most of his day fielding queries from conservatives. Most liberals outside the Rust Belt lost interest in organized labor decades ago;...
View ArticleHow Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
During the Covid-19 pandemic, one in four Americans has struggled to pay their bills, and as of mid-January, unemployment claims surpassed those of the Great Recession for the forty-third straight...
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Inside the Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago
When Mike Bush was 12, all knees and soft eyes, he won a scholarship to attend youth classes at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was the summer of 1968, hot and angry and hopeful, and...
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from Field Study
Excerpted from Field Study by Chet’la Sebree, by permission of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
View ArticleThe Farming Lobby’s Cunning Plan to Fight Climate Change—and Regulation
In 1980, the American Farm Bureau Federation, currently the largest agricultural lobbying group and third-largest insurance company in the country, called for the Environmental Protection Agency to be...
View ArticleThe Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing
In October of 2018, Leslie Hernandez stood in the hallway of her building, an olive-green stucco and concrete complex in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, trying to communicate with her neighbor Benson Lai, an...
View ArticleRight-Wing Pundits’ Pathetic Defenses of Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law
Laura Ingraham’s monologue on Thursday evening was all about canceling the myriad corporations—including Delta and Coca Cola—who have come out against the restrictive new voting bill signed into law in...
View ArticleHow a Bunch of Revolutionary War Reenactors Got Caught Up in Facebook’s Purge...
Rory Nolan remembers the first time he was banned from Facebook. It was October 8, 2020, the day that news broke that a militia group, in concert with an FBI informant, had planned to kidnap Michigan...
View ArticleTexas Wants to Tell California How to Spend Its Money. What Happened to...
It’s been a big term for state-on-state clashes at the Supreme Court. The justices could hand down an opinion any day now in California v. Texas, a major Affordable Care Act case that pitted Republican...
View ArticleThe Weird Comfort of Getting Vaccinated at an Abandoned JC Penney
Carolyn Bennett Glauda, a librarian in Beacon, New York, got her Covid-19 shot at an abandoned JC Penney. The store went out of business around the beginning of the pandemic. But when she entered, she...
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