The Citizen App’s Gamification of Vigilantism
Citizen, the crime-reporting app that got its start under the name Vigilante, is expanding. At the moment, it is hiring two producers for OnAir, a live broadcast program that’s designed to turn crime...
View ArticleRepublicans Are on the Brink of Embracing the Capitol Rioters
When a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol on January 6 to prevent Congress from finalizing President Joe Biden’s victory, many Republicans were willing to say that it was Bad. Mitch McConnell denounced...
View ArticleWhat Does Progressive Democrats’ “No Climate, No Deal” Threat Actually Mean?
“No climate, no deal” is the new catchphrase among climate groups and lawmakers in the House and Senate. Not just stalwart Green New Dealers like Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey but also more centrist...
View ArticleA Trump Memoir Would Be a Huge Seller, but No Major Publisher Wants to Buy It
On Friday, Donald Trump released a statement that was odd, even by his own demented standards. Unprompted, the former president informed the public that he was working on “the book of all books” but...
View ArticleIn Joe Biden, Putin Has Finally Met a U.S. President Who Sees Him for Who He Is
Joe Biden will almost certainly be the last president whose internal newsreel is filled with memories of Russia from Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin. He was born during World War II, when old “Uncle...
View ArticleWhat Made Gilded Age Politics So Acrimonious?
The politics of Gilded Age America has always lent itself to a certain mock-heroic streak in historical storytelling; the name of the era comes down to us, after all, from an 1876 satirical novel by...
View ArticleA Third Reconstruction, or a Second Civil War?
When Vice President Andrew Johnson assumed the office of president upon the death of Abraham Lincoln in mid-April 1865, he initially incurred favor with Republican legislators in Congress, including...
View ArticleWhy Don’t We Pay Family Caregivers What They’re Owed?
Crystal Jackson and her husband live with their three-year-old son in rural Arkansas. Crystal’s husband, Keith, who is 39, was born with cerebral palsy and has had a growing number of health problems...
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The U.S. Could Face Another Covid Surge This Fall
Covid-19 cases across the United States have finally started dropping. People are venturing outside again to host barbecues and birthday parties. This week, both New York and California officially...
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The End of Friedmanomics
When he arrived in South Africa on March 20, 1976, Milton Friedman was a bona fide celebrity. He had been invited by the University of Cape Town to deliver a series of lectures on economic policy, but...
View ArticleWhy the Unrest in Gaza Might Get Worse
Using the discharge of incendiary devices across the wall that hems in the Gaza Strip against the Mediterranean Sea as justification, Israel, under new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, launched a series...
View ArticleIs the Supreme Court Finally Done Saving Obamacare?
The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot bid to overturn the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, once again saving the landmark health care law from Republican attempts to dismantle and destroy it. The 7–2...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Delivers a Twist Ending on LGBTQ Discrimination
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency in Philadelphia that refused to help place children with same-sex couples, ruling that the city had improperly...
View ArticleBiden Can Still Reduce Drilling on Public Lands
On Tuesday, Judge Terry Doughty of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued an injunction on the Biden administration’s temporary pause of new gas and oil leases on...
View ArticleAvoiding Unpopular Issues Doesn’t Make Them Go Away
Only one side is officially fighting the culture war over “critical race theory.” Republican elected officials have not only denounced “critical race theory” but also introduced and passed legislation...
View ArticleCan the Socialist Mayor Rise Again?
India Walton greets me alone at her campaign office, which is actually just a one-desk room in a co-working space, sparsely decorated but for a few books, stacks of campaign lit, and a whiteboard where...
View ArticleThe Unequal Distribution of Covid Vaccines Is a Preview of the Coming Climate...
A week after the G7 patted itself on the back for agreeing charitably to hand out 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines (“a drop in the ocean,” as Amnesty International put it), a very different group...
View ArticleThe IRS Could Be a Force for Social Good
On June 10, 2019, John Lewis took to the floor of the House of Representatives to tout a piece of legislation that he and his colleagues, including some Republicans, had worked on for years. It was to...
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