The Crisis in Home Care
Kara Ward started her life as a caregiver earlier than most people do. She was only 29 when her mother was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2006. Ward had two young children of her own at the time—a...
View ArticleThe Filibuster’s Most Devilish Trick
On Monday, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the main character of the United States Senate, announced that he would co-sponsor one of the main items on the Democratic legislative agenda—the...
View ArticleThe Black Panther Party Has Never Been More Popular. But Actual Black...
On October 7, 2020, Jalil Muntaqim exited the Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate New York a free man. A member of the Black Panther Party and its more militant, clandestine offshoot, the Black...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of Low Climate Expectations
There’s a troubling pattern in coverage of the White House’s new emissions target, formally announced Thursday morning as part of an international climate summit. On its face, the Biden...
View ArticleRich People Paying Other Rich People Is Not a Climate “Solution”
On Thursday, while President Biden met with world leaders at the climate summit, the Senate Agriculture Committee convened to vote on the Growing Climate Solutions Act. The bill seeks to create a...
View ArticleBolsonaro Doesn’t Want to Save the Amazon. He Just Wants to Extort the...
It sounds a lot like extortion: After more than two years denying that runaway deforestation in the Amazon is a real problem, the Brazilian government now says it will protect the rain forest if the...
View ArticleThe Blake Bailey Fiasco Implicates Everyone
When the Los Angeles Times asked Blake Bailey what he thought about Laura Marsh’s review of his Philip Roth biography in The New Republic, he replied, “That was harsh. I mean, wow.” He had a heavier...
View ArticleWhat Did the Sacklers Know?
What did they know, and when did they know it? That is, when did the Sackler family know that OxyContin, the drug responsible for their vast fortune, was also partly responsible for the opioid crisis?...
View ArticleBen Shapiro Goes Trolling in Hollywood
The war over cancel culture is reaching new levels of absurdity. Earlier this year, Lucasfilm dropped the actress Gina Carano from its Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian after she likened...
View ArticleBlame Anthony Kennedy for the Supreme Court’s Mangled Ruling on Juvenile Life...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court reversed course on its decade-and-a-half-long push to reduce the most serious sentences for prisoners who committed crimes as children. In two previous decisions, the...
View ArticleThe Existential Crisis That Led to the European Super League Fiasco
The European Super League, perhaps the biggest debacle in sports history, was born of desperation, and it showed. Twelve breakaway clubs—the largest in England, Spain, and Italy—announced their new...
View ArticleThe Right to Crash Cars Into People
Earlier this week, Florida Republicans enacted a law they claimed would prevent riots in the state. Its real purpose, of course, was to discourage protesting and punish demonstrators. One of the bill’s...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Merrick Garland
It’s hard to find someone in Washington who doesn’t like Merrick Garland. There are Republicans who don’t like Barack Obama and accordingly blocked the former president from elevating Garland to the...
View ArticleThe Diseased Rhododendrons That Triggered a Federal Plant Hunt
Every spring, Americans flock to their local box store or nursery looking for ornamental plants—something to spruce up their front yard, perhaps, or block out nosy neighbors. Last year’s pandemic...
View ArticleThe U.S. Senate’s Oldest Office Building Honors a Racist
More than 12,000 men and women have served in Congress since 1789. But only six have received the highest honor that Congress can bestow—to have their name on a Capitol Hill office building as an...
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Vaccine Hesitancy and the Long Shadow of Racism in U.S. Health Care
As we rapidly approach the point where the Covid-19 vaccine is available to all those who want it, the key constraint on reaching a sufficiently high level of vaccinations to achieve herd immunity is...
View ArticleMake School Lunch Free for Everyone, Forever
Feeding kids, as it turns out, is a good thing. Or at least that’s what the Agriculture Department decided this week, as it announced that its universal free school lunch program would be extended...
View ArticleYou’re Still the Loser in Apple and Facebook’s War Over Privacy
In recent years Apple has moved aggressively to brand itself as a privacy-friendly company that stands in contrast to competitors like Facebook and Google, whose Android operating system runs at least...
View ArticleWill the Supreme Court Let Americans Carry Guns for Any Reason?
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a case challenging New York’s concealed-carry laws, setting up what could be the court’s first major Second Amendment ruling in a decade....
View ArticleThere Is No War on Meat. There Should Be.
Over the past few days, American conservatives have managed to wind themselves up into a full-blown meat panic. Let me try to recap.Toward the end of last week, a Daily Mail article suggested that the...
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