Fossil Fuel Companies Are Job Killers
As Joe Biden’s climate-scented infrastructure proposal kicks off, the fossil fuel industry has one tried and true message to fall back on: They stand for jobs, prosperity, and the working man. (That’s...
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An Epic Debate on Trump and True Evangelicalism
Through the many upheavals of the Trump era, one trend has remained strikingly stable: the mobilization of the white evangelical community as diehard supporters of the forty-fifth president. It’s a...
View ArticleDelta and Coca-Cola Won’t Save Voting Rights in Georgia
The recent battle over voting rights in Georgia has briefly disrupted the usually placid relationship between America’s corporate titans and the Republican Party. Late last month, Georgia passed...
View ArticleLast Judgment
This article is adapted from this year’s acceptance speech for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, awarded by the National Book Critics Circle. It’s such an honor to receive an...
View ArticleKick the Fracking Industry Out of Indian Country
On Sunday, The Guardian published a comprehensive report on the environmental, health, and legal issues raised by fracking in the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation. In particular, the outlet...
View ArticleThe Labor-Rights Legislation That Could Make Medicare for All a Reality
The most monumental pro-labor legislation since the 1930s is a few co-sponsors shy of a majority in the Senate, and it’s tough to overstate what a big deal that is: The Protect the Right to Organize...
View ArticleThe Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s Universe
The last time Stephen Hawking was ever uncertain about his fame was before a lecture in Cambridge, in the winter of 1988. Even then, really, he should have been in no doubt. In previous years, he’d...
View ArticleOne of the Biggest Villains in the Local News Crisis Might Finally Lose
When Alden Global Capital announced its plan to take over Tribune Publishing—the Chicago-based media conglomerate that publishes the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, and the New...
View ArticleHow Trump Wrecked the Conservative Money Machine
Back in the days when the GOP was a traditional, pro-business party led by orthodox conservatives like Paul Ryan and John Boehner, House Republicans could always shake the corporate money tree for...
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Remembering the Father of Supply-Side Economics
The economist Robert Mundell died on April 4. Although known primarily for his work on international economics—he’s popularly known in economic circles as the “father of the euro”—he played a vital...
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The Turbulent Life of Francis Bacon
The same day that Francis Bacon’s landmark retrospective opened at the Grand Palais in Paris, in 1971, his longtime boyfriend and muse George Dyer died on the toilet in their hotel. It was unclear...
View ArticleDuke Energy’s Green Facade Isn’t Fooling People Anymore
Eleven years ago, as President Obama was beginning to emphasize climate change as a potential legislative priority, utility companies began strategizing to survive the new age. In June 2010, then–Duke...
View ArticleHow an Oat Milk Pipeline in New Jersey Explains the Problem With Biden’s...
Trendy Swedish food company Oatly is fooling you. That, at least, is what a Medium post from entrepreneurial self-help guru Nat Eliason, which recently went viral thanks to a stray tweet, claimed last...
View ArticleMade for Love Puts a Marriage Under the Microscope
Cristin Milioti, an actress of irrepressible charisma, is for some reason a natural at playing women who are being squashed, constrained, or otherwise manipulated by some of the worst men on the...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Too Subservient to Corporate America to Wage War on “Woke...
“From election law to environmentalism to radical social agendas to the Second Amendment, parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government. Corporations will invite...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Monster Is Matt Gaetz?
Florida Republican Matt Gaetz may be the first member of Congress under investigation for sex trafficking, and whether or not he is indicted, “investigated for sex trafficking” has now affixed itself...
View ArticleInfrastructure Spending Can Save Local Journalism
What counts as infrastructure? Critics of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan are already in a huff that the administration’s proposals go well beyond repairing roads and bridges. Some of the...
View ArticleIs Gutfeld! the Worst Show on Television?
Over the past 25 years, Fox News has turned both cable news and partisan propaganda into a science. Obsessed with breaking down ratings to the minute, if not the millisecond, the network is hyperaware...
View ArticleThere’s More to Hunter Biden Than a Laptop
One night in 2016, during “a crack-fueled, cross-country odyssey” that he recalls in his new memoir, Beautiful Things, Hunter Biden saw an owl. He had already totaled one rental car that trip....
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Religious Persecution Complex
Democracies depend on law; authoritarian systems prefer legal theater. In recent cases having to do with religion, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has shown a distinct preference for the...
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