Republicans Have Ruined Sports for Republicans
Earlier this month, the right found the latest battle in the culture wars: America’s pastime. When Major League Baseball moved the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver after Georgia passed a wave...
View ArticleElon Musk Wants to Move Fast and Break Space
Late last month, a pair of satellites operated by Starlink and OneWeb—two companies working to launch constellations of small, low-orbiting satellites that beam internet access all over Earth—almost...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Is Already an “America First Caucus”
Last week, Punchbowl News published excerpts from a draft policy platform by the America First Caucus, a proposed legislative caucus for far-right members of Congress. Arizona’s Paul Gosar and...
View ArticleThe Chilling Persistence of Eugenics
The top-down quest for social control in America often seems to lead, by a deep-seated sort of homing instinct, to schemes of reproductive coercion. Tucker Carlson’s recent fulminations about racial...
View ArticleRepublicans’ Criminalization of Protest and Cops’ Crackdown on Journalists Go...
Before lawyers working for her news organization could find her, Carolyn Sung, a CNN producer, was zip-tied and body-scanned, searched by an officer “who put her hands down Sung’s pants and in her...
View ArticleBiden’s Disturbing Acceptance of State Violence Against Central American...
Victoria Salazar, a Salvadoran woman who had fled her country and sought refuge in Mexico, was killed by the police in Tulum late last month when an officer knelt on her neck during an arrest. The...
View ArticleCryptocurrencies Are the Next Frontier for the Surveillance State
At first, it might have sounded like manna from heaven. Chinese authorities announced they would be distributing more than $1 million to a select number of citizens, as part of a test of its new...
View ArticleThe Big Difference Between a Green New Deal and Biden’s Climate Agenda
It’s Green New Deal week on Capitol Hill. Congresswomen Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a Green New Deal for Cities bill Monday proposing $1 trillion for struggling municipalities to...
View ArticleSoccer Is Broken. The European Super League Proves It.
Leicester City’s 2016 Premier League title is the greatest sporting achievement of my lifetime, and I’m not sure it’s really close. Leicester City had been in the third division of English soccer less...
View ArticleDerek Chauvin Was Not an Aberration
At 4:10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was remanded into custody, his bail revoked, guilty on all three counts of the murder of George Floyd. The state has...
View ArticleWalter Mondale’s Visionary Liberalism Is Still Echoing Today
Minnesota’s Walter Mondale, who died Monday night at 93, was the embodiment of a strand of full-throated liberalism that defined the Democratic Party for much of the last half of the twentieth...
View ArticleBringing the Black Radical Tradition to the Oscars
This year’s slate of nominees for the Academy Awards brings Amiri Baraka to mind. In his 1965 essay “The Revolutionary Theatre,” Baraka called for Black productions that might “stagger through our...
View ArticleMark Bittman’s Beef With Capitalism
What we grow determines how we eat, and what we eat determines how we live and die. These simple but overlooked truths drive the work of the longtime food writer Mark Bittman, whose new book, Animal,...
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The Weird, Extremely German Origins of the Wirecard Scandal
German scandals are not like other scandals. The bouquet of a classic German scandal contains unmistakable notes: a rabbit-hole impenetrability, the implication of an entire guilt-ridden society, and,...
View ArticleThe Impossibility of Ethical Recreation on Stolen Land
Over the past two weeks, a scandal has enveloped Western climbing circles. At its center is a 36-year-old military veteran, Richard Gilbert, who, as of last week, has admitted to and apologized for...
View ArticleWalter Mondale Wasn’t Scared of Raising Taxes. Is Biden?
Walter Mondale, who died Monday at 93, was the last presidential nominee to tell the truth about taxes. This experiment was judged a failure, and no nominee of either party ever attempted it again. We...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Unhinged, Baseless Attacks on Biden’s DOJ Nominees
In the days to come, there will be plenty of commentary on the implications of Tuesday’s guilty verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial for the broader police reform agenda, but at least one proximate and...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Big Tech Can’t Distance Themselves From the Police Violence...
A few hours after a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty of three charges in the murder of George Floyd, Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, announced his sympathy and support for the outcome. “Today’s...
View ArticleThe Right-Wing Media’s Shameful Defense of Derek Chauvin
There might not be anything more embarrassing than getting scolded by Fox News host and reckless driver Jeanine Pirro on national television. But that’s what happened to Greg Gutfeld, himself the host...
View ArticleCan Merrick Garland Save the Minneapolis Police Department?
Most of the attention on how George Floyd died last year focused on the actions of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murder on Tuesday for Floyd’s death. But Chauvin...
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