The Endless Work of Trying to Win Yourself a New Life
Dave Taube has won a computer, a whitewater rafting trip, and several grills. There’s also the kayak, the powder-blue Coors Light onesie, and the Bruce Springsteen tickets. He recently took home...
View ArticleMarjorie Taylor Greene Is Really Great at Her Job: Professional Troll
After she was stripped from her committee assignments for making a range of racist, anti-Semitic, and generally batshit crazy public statements, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene said that she had been...
View ArticleJoe Manchin Finally Has a Good Idea
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the nation’s de facto prime minister, threw cold water this week on the Democrats’ signature election-reform bill. The For the People Act would expand early voting,...
View ArticleAre Liberal Cities Turning Against Their Progressive Prosecutors?
In 2016, the killing of Laquan McDonald brought reform prosecutor Kim Foxx into office in Chicago. Larry Krasner, a criminal defense attorney who had sued the Philadelphia Police Department 75 times...
View ArticleRepublicans Are High on Colonial Pipeline’s Fumes
“The Colonial Pipeline crisis shows that we need more American energy to fuel our economy, not less.” So tweeted Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, shortly after a cyberattack prompted Colonial to shut...
View ArticleSimon & Schuster Staffers Are Still Very Pissed About Mike Pence’s Book Deal
Earlier this year, in an open letter, more than 200 staffers at Simon & Schuster called on the book publisher to cancel its book deal with former Vice President Mike Pence and not work with other...
View ArticleOur 250-Year Fight for Multiracial Democracy
In October 1829, some of the last surviving leaders of America’s founding generation gathered in Richmond, Virginia, for a state constitutional convention. Two issues dominated the gathering: suffrage...
View ArticleCan a Hate Crimes Bill Stop the Rising Violence Against Asian Americans?
After a gunman opened fire on three spas in Atlanta in March, killing six Asian immigrant women, a childhood memory that Representative Grace Meng of New York had long buried came back to light. It’s a...
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This Could Be the Start of a Rural Anti-Fracking Coalition
When I first met George Hagemeyer in 2013, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation was in the process of drilling six natural gas wells in his backyard. America is the only country in the world where property...
View ArticleThe U.S. Military Has a White Supremacy Problem
In late October 2020, Lance Corporal Joseph Mercurio, a Marine with the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Marine Regiment, hit “send” on an Instagram comment: “The Jewish religion is that of Satan,” he...
View ArticleAbolish the Debt Ceiling—by Raising It to One Googolplex Dollars
There are many things that should be left in the Pandemic Before Times: meetings that could have been emails, long and pointless commutes, and working without paid sick leave. Also, consider the debt...
View ArticleWill Israel’s Bombing of the AP Expose the Fake Neutrality of the U.S....
There are many ways to court the world’s media, and the state of Israel has seemingly tried all of them. In recent years, that’s included a prolific use of social media—for example, cringey tweets...
View ArticleJoe Biden Unexpectedly Wades Back Into the D.C. Statehood Fight
Like the city itself, the push to grant Washington, D.C., autonomy and federal representation through statehood remains in an interminable limbo. While President Biden and most Democrats in Congress...
View ArticleAmy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh Will Get Their Chance to End Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will reconsider part of Roe v. Wade in its fall term, setting the stage for a major ruling to curtail access to legal abortion throughout America. The...
View ArticleMeat Plants, Oil Pipelines, and the Ethical Tensions of Tribal Sovereignty
The people of Winchester, Oklahoma are not happy. Last October, the Muscogee Nation began construction on a 25,000-square foot meat processing facility on the tribe’s lands in Okmulgee County. Known as...
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Two Paths for Erotic Sculpture
Sculpture can tell us a lot about the surface of things. Classical sculpture tells us how a muscle flexes, how a robe folds over a knee, how breasts sit on a body. Modern sculpture can do more: Richard...
View ArticleThe Great Streaming Rebundling Is Here
Three years ago, AT&T fought the Department of Justice, which had raised antitrust objections to its proposed $85 billion deal to acquire Time Warner, and won. The company was betting that it could...
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A New “War on Terrorism” Is the Wrong Way to Fight Domestic Extremists
On January 6, as insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol building, pro-Trump rioters outside set up a noose. In one photo, taken by a reporter from USA Today, a woman draped in a Trump flag stands on...
View ArticleEven the International Energy Agency Thinks It’s Time to Stop Drilling New...
A bombshell new 227-page report from the International Energy Agency on paths to avoiding climate catastrophe doesn’t mince words: “Beyond projects already committed as of 2021,” its authors write,...
View ArticleApple Cares More About Appeasing China Than It Does About Protecting Your...
While other tech giants have spent the last several years mired in privacy scandals, Apple has charted a different course, branding itself as the juggernaut that cares about your civil liberties....
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