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China Is Proud of Its Covid Response. But Taiwan’s Was Better.
Hao-Yuan Cheng is a night owl. So when an alert buzzed his phone in the early morning of December 31, 2019, he saw it almost immediately. Trained as an epidemiologist, Cheng works as a health official...
View ArticleBlack Politics After George Floyd
One night last summer, I saw a police van go up in flames, and I allowed myself to feel hope, something that had become quite foreign to me after the year’s many stupefying months. For a number of us...
View ArticleThe Road to Decarbonization Is Littered With Dumb Lawsuits
There are a lot of hidden trip wires on the road to a greener economy. One of the biggest is the network of investor protections through which companies can sue states for enacting policies that render...
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The Year That Broke Emmanuel Macron’s Republican Front
On April 21, the far-right magazine Valeurs Actuelles launched the kind of perfectly timed volley that sends French political and media life into overdrive. It took the form of an open letter, what the...
View ArticleIsrael’s Never-Ending War Against Palestinian Health
In the aftermath of a delicate ceasefire coming on the heels of 10 days of Israeli airstrikes that killed some 230 Palestinians, Gaza’s health care infrastructure has weathered serious damage: Bombs...
View ArticleHave Democrats Reached a Turning Point on Israel?
On Thursday, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire, putting a tentative end to 11 days of fighting that began with protests over the eviction of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of...
View ArticleWhat Does the U.S. Owe American Samoa?
When the Supreme Court was first established in 1789, the United States was small enough that the justices could review decisions in lower courts by “riding circuit”—literally traveling by horse from...
View ArticleFacebook Now Says It’s the Solution to the Crises It Created
Tech industry “regulation is overdue,” writes Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister turned Facebook vice president of global policy. In an op-ed for CNBC today, Clegg declared that “for...
View ArticleWill Europe Finally Stand Up to Belarus’s Plane-Hijacking Bully?
The man dubbed “the last dictator in Europe” lived up to his billing over the weekend. In a provocative dare to the entire continent, Belarus despot Aleksandr Lukashenko effectively snatched one of his...
View ArticleAcademic Tenure Is Broken. Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Case Makes That Clear.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a renowned journalist, recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Barely a month ago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
View ArticleThe Weak, Unconvincing Case Against Vaping
In April 1994, the heads of the biggest tobacco companies testified before Congress that cigarettes weren’t addictive. A month later, across the country, a box marked “confidential” arrived for Dr....
View ArticleKilling Coal, Keeping Dakota Access, and America’s Doomed Climate Politics
Last Friday was a busy, confusing day on the climate front in America. First, in the morning, the Group of Seven—consisting of the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Canada, Italy, and...
View ArticleThe Professor Who Became a Cop
For as long as there have been police, there have been bestselling police biographies and autobiographies. In nineteenth-century Britain and France, bourgeois readers devoured police “memoirs” that...
View ArticleThe Exorcists Who Are Battling Black Lives Matter
In Elysburg, Pennsylvania, there is a Vatican-trained exorcist and professed expert on spiritual warfare, who lectures and tweets about the “demonic” forces of our times. It might surprise you to learn...
View ArticleBored Reporters in Washington Declare an End to the Biden Honeymoon
While politicos like to pretend otherwise, most presidential addresses to Congress contain very little that matters—they capture the public’s attention for a day or two, generate busywork for...
View ArticleThe Climate Case for Property Destruction
Political protest in the twenty-first century has so far been distinguished by its sheer numerical scale—and its ineffectuality. In 2003, crowds assembled in cities across the planet to register their...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong With Bob Dylan’s Biographers?
Entry #203 in the Dylan to English Dictionary, billed by author A.J. Weberman as “the most useful and authoritative translation of Bob Dylan’s poetry you can own,” provides the Dylanological definition...
View ArticleCNN Fired Rick Santorum and Forgave Chris Cuomo. Ethics Had Nothing to Do...
After being fired from CNN for racist comments about Native Americans, former Republican presidential candidate turned cable news greenroom habitué Rick Santorum followed the new playbook for...
View ArticleHow Anti-Abortion Activists’ “Reckless Dream” Made It to the Supreme Court
More than four years ago, I called a constitutional law professor to ask him to explain a wave of anti-abortion legislation that blatantly violated Roe v. Wade and was therefore destined to be swiftly...
View ArticleCan the Politics of Police Reform Survive the Crime Rates of Our Pandemic Year?
On Tuesday, the National Fraternal Order of Police posted a graphic on Twitter. It bore the title “SKYROCKETING MURDER RATES” on a red banner and listed year-to-date increases in murder rates in seven...
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