Angry White Parents Are Once Again Winning the Battle for the American Classroom
In June, Matthew Hawn, a high school teacher and baseball coach in Blountville, Tennessee, was fired by the county board of education. The process had escalated in steps: Earlier in the year, Hawn...
View ArticleEurope Might Slap a Climate Tax on Us. Good.
The European Union Wednesday unveiled a suite of climate policies intended to cut emissions by 55 percent of 1990 levels by 2030. The plans include higher carbon prices, a bloc-wide coal phaseout and...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Latest Front in the Culture War: A Virginia Politics Professor
Virginia’s Republican Party is a mess. The once reliably reddish commonwealth has grown steadily bluer in recent years, thanks in no small part to the growth that the Washington, D.C., suburbs have...
View ArticleRoadrunner Goes in Search of Anthony Bourdain
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is aptly subtitled: This is not a documentary about food, or about traveling the world, although food and travel shots abound—but rather an autopsy of one...
View ArticleWhy Democrats Should Fear Inflation
“I find the fixation on 1970s inflation puzzling,” the New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum wrote this past May on Twitter. “I mean really,” he continued, “of all the things that were...
View ArticleWhy Hasn’t Biden Chosen a Trust-Buster Yet?
Last week, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to create what the White House described as a “whole-of-government” strategy to bolster economic competitiveness and reverse a decades-long...
View ArticleThe Problem of the Small Landlord and Other Pandemic Relief Traps
Suze Orman once told me that “money is the physical manifestation of who you are.” It was a mantra that I thought no one actually subscribed to, but it came to mind last week when I read a New York...
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The Republicans’ Latest Skeezy Campaign Trick: Cash Swaps to Help Each Other
When the famous Blue Wave of 2018 swept Democrats back into control of the House of Representatives, it crested over many long-held Republican districts. This included California’s Central Valley...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Lina Khan? (All the Right People.)
Judging by the reaction of the tech industry and the conservative press, Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, may be the most feared figure in Joe Biden’s administration. This week,...
View ArticleThe Generals Won’t Save Democracy
More than six months after the attempted insurrection at the United States Capitol, we’re still learning about how close the country came to a full-blown coup. On Wednesday, early reviews of I Alone...
View ArticleThose Bathing Bears Aren’t Cute. They’re Climate Change Victims.
Climate has always been one of Lake Tahoe’s biggest selling points. Nevada is infamously inhospitable to everyone but Elvis impersonators, and California is always burning. But North America’s largest...
View ArticleBuying Drugs From Canada Won’t Solve America’s Obscene Health Care Costs
In a sizable executive order released earlier this month, President Joe Biden asserted his determination to rein in prescription drug prices, higher in the United States than anywhere else on earth....
View ArticleA Surprising Potential Swing Vote: Pro-Democracy Republicans
Political pundits seem united in their belief that Democrats will struggle to hold the House of Representatives in 2022. The historical precedent that the party out of power in the White House always...
View ArticleKatie Kitamura’s Intimacies Poses a Moral Dilemma
Katie Kitamura’s 2017 novel A Separation tells the story of a woman, a literary translator living in London, who flies off to Greece to track down her estranged husband and ask him for a divorce. For a...
View ArticleA New Global Group of 21 Lawmakers Will Pressure Countries on Climate Change
Last Friday, a video went viral of a bemused German driver navigating through floodwaters, laughing at a floating car before realizing that he had lost control himself. It was a lighthearted moment...
View ArticleFacebook Is Designed to Spread Covid Misinformation
The Biden administration went to war with Facebook late last week, blaming it for the persistent and dangerous anti-vax sentiment gripping a significant chunk of the country. Surgeon General Vivek...
View ArticleWhy Does Congress Let the Ivy League Operate as a Monopoly?
In a unanimous decision last month, the Supreme Court ruled that universities’ long-standing practice of colluding through the NCAA to limit education-related financial benefits for college athletes...
View ArticleWhy Did Israel’s Judiciary Become an Enemy of the People?
In the Israeli elections of March 2020, the third out of four in just two years, parties seeking to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a slim majority and quickly set about preparing to elect a...
View ArticleSpace Jam: A New Legacy Is a Peek Into the Bleak, Cynical Future of Film
There is a moment near the end of Space Jam: A New Legacy, the new Looney Tunes–LeBron James crossover product that is less a movie and more a vacuous advertisement for WarnerMedia’s intellectual...
View ArticleMore Reasons to Hate the Dentist
Few people enjoy going to the dentist. But generally speaking, we don’t question what’s done to us when we’re there. On Episode 33 of The Politics of Everything, Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene speak with...
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