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Our Friend, the Trump Propagandist
According to our old friend David Horowitz—the radical leftist turned thoughtful conservative turned Trump propagandist whom we’ve been acquainted with, in his various political guises, for more than...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Will Always Choose Culture Wars Over Working-Class Policy
As the Biden administration and Senate Democrats sort out how badly they want to govern, Republicans on Capitol Hill are keeping themselves busy laying the groundwork for a grand cancellation. For...
View ArticleEven Facebook’s Handpicked “Supreme Court” Thinks Its Policies Are a Joke
He has yet to launch his rumored social media platform, but we now know where the former president will be posting for at least the next six months. It’s called From the Desk of Donald J. Trump: a...
View ArticleThe Media Still Doesn’t Know How to Cover the Big Lie
When Josh Hawley was asked, during a Washington Post event promoting his new book, about his involvement in the January 6 attempted coup at the Capitol, the senator got huffy. “Don’t try to censor,...
View ArticleThere’s Something Missing From Biden’s Move to Free the Covid Vaccines
In a breakthrough for global health, the Biden administration on Wednesday announced it would support an international waiver of intellectual property law for Covid-19 vaccines, medications, and...
View ArticleThe Democrats Are Doing Court Reform Backward
The ultraconservative hijack of the Supreme Court, enabled by Mitch McConnell’s chicanery and President Donald Trump’s assent to Federalist Society–blessed nominees, has left liberals and Democrats...
View ArticleIn Defense of Liberal Conspirators
The following is an excerpt from Astra Taylor’s new book, Remake the World. “It’s as natural as breathing” is a cliché because, when all is going well, nothing else is more effortless than inhaling and...
View ArticleThe Washington Media Is Overblowing the Liz Cheney Story
In the last 24 hours, about the only publication that has not offered a breathless account of Liz Cheney’s plight is Epicurious. And that may only be because the newly anti-carnivore recipe site is...
View ArticleBig Pharma: There’s No Easy Way Out of the Vaccine Crisis We Created
On Wednesday, after months of growing pressure from progressive activists and governments around the world, the Biden administration announced that it would support World Trade Organization–centered...
View ArticleBP’s Suspicious Support for a Carbon Market in Washington State
In early April, the state of Washington managed to do what once seemed impossible: successfully pass a bill establishing carbon pricing. It did so with the backing of oil giant BP, which has a lot...
View ArticleAndy Cohen’s Reality Television Fantasy
No one ever believed that reality television was totally real. Thirty-one days before The Real World premiered on MTV in 1992—a one-off about eight young strangers living together in a New York City...
View ArticleIt Took the Democrats Half a Century to Rediscover Trickle-Up Economics
When Republicans began reformulating their tax philosophy in the late 1970s, they looked to their party’s policies in the 1920s for inspiration. I remember Jude Wanniski, the late conservative...
View ArticleHow America Became the Money Laundering Capital of the World
In March, federal agents raided the Beverly Hills premises of a company called U.S. Private Vaults. According to a subsequent grand jury indictment, U.S. Private Vaults was a money laundering operation...
View ArticleThe World Is Waking Up to the Truth That Natural Gas Is Dirty
In the last several years, the fossil fuel industry has tried to paint itself as being on a smooth path toward a clean energy future. Its members are (allegedly) standing by, ready to join the fight...
View ArticleWhy the GOP Is Backing Elise Stefanik in Her War Against Liz Cheney
Not so long ago, Liz Cheney was being presented as “a new thought leader for the GOP” and even the second coming of Margaret Thatcher. As Donald Trump continued to spread wild lies about the 2020...
View ArticleBiden’s Conservation Plan Is a Historic Moment for America’s Indigenous People
Last week, on 60 Minutes+, journalist Wesley Lowery visited Manhattan Beach, California, to cover a century-old story about a Black family trying to reclaim beachfront property that had been stolen...
View ArticleJoe Biden Is Blowing a Big Moment for Medicare
Given the fact that we are in what we hope are the latter days of a global pandemic that arrived on these shores during a Democratic presidential primary that was all but defined by vigorous intraparty...
View ArticleThe Rise of Private Spies
As WikiLeaks was riding to global fame a decade ago by publishing archives of leaked American military and diplomatic files, its founder, Julian Assange, liked to call his organization an “intelligence...
View ArticleWhat If Dictators and Autocrats Learn to Love Clubhouse, Too?
In Silicon Valley, what passes for innovation often means copying the hot new thing, and right now that new thing is Clubhouse: an app that provides audio chat rooms for people to discuss whatever...
View ArticleNothing Exposes the GOP’s Cruelty More Than Its War on Medicaid Expansion
Last August, Missouri voters made themselves perfectly clear when they voted to expand the state’s Medicaid program, passing a ballot measure with 53 percent of the vote. It was just the latest in a...
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