Trump’s Gentrification Scheme to Enrich Real Estate Developers
Buried within the more than 500 pages of Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cut was an unobtrusive line item with potentially damaging consequences. Proposed by Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the provision...
View ArticleThe One Issue the Left and Right Can Agree On
In November, not long after Amazon announced that it would build its second headquarters in New York City and northern Virginia, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the newly elected representative from Queens...
View ArticleBatista’s Revenge
“Another dictator, Gen. Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, has fallen, and good riddance to him,” read The New York Times on January 2, 1959. The day before, a band of youthful revolutionaries led by Fidel...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren’s Theory of Everything
How a presidential candidate announces their bid can speak volumes. Hillary Clinton unveiled her 2016 campaign with a well-crafted video that showcased a diverse slate of ordinary Americans. President...
View ArticleWhy Has the World Gone Easy on Cristiano Ronaldo?
On the last Saturday in November, Cristiano Ronaldo took the field with a streak of red lipstick smeared across his cheek. This was no fashion statement. The Portuguese soccer star, who joined the...
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Encarcelado. Violado. Deportado. Robado.
Este artículo se produjo en colaboración con el Pulitzer Center. Read in EnglishMientras las tormentas eléctricas azotaban la pradera en el este de Montana poco después de las siete de la mañana del 2...
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Jailed, Raped, Deported, Robbed
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.Leer en español By the time thunderstorms hit the eastern Montana prairie just after seven on the morning of August 2, 2017, Audemio...
View ArticleWho Is Mitt Romney Kidding?
Mitt Romney isn’t a big fan of this Donald Trump character, and he really wants you to know it. The former Republican presidential candidate and Utah’s newest senator wrote a Washington Post op-ed on...
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How to Oppose Fascism
BERLIN by Jason LutesDrawn & Quarterly, 580 pp., $49.95Jason Lutes first started drawing Berlin, his epic graphic novel about the disintegration of the Weimar Republic, in 1996, when the topic...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Democrats Standing Up for Low-Wage Government Workers?
House Democrats had big plans for opening the 116th Congress, with showy votes on cracking down on government corruption and protecting pre-existing conditions. But such plans rarely survive contact...
View ArticleThe Left’s Delusions About Mexico’s New President
The story has never failed to entrance a foreign audience: An outspoken leftist committed to social justice wins a landslide presidential victory in Latin America. Headlines last July for 65-year-old...
View ArticleA Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.
In May 2017, Erin Kearns, an adjunct instructor at American University, gave a lecture on terrorism in the United States. Jihadists, she said, commit only a small portion of attacks on American soil,...
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What Women Want?
As titles go, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is exemplary: clear, rhyming, and conceptually precise. The first book from comedy writer Blythe Roberson (The New Yorker, The Onion, The Late Show with...
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See for Yourself
The black-and-white video looks, just for a moment, like it might be a real cooking show. The female host holds up a chalkboard displaying its title, then puts on her apron and picks up a bowl. Yet...
View ArticleGreen Leftists Prepare to Give Democratic Candidates Hell
On Tuesday, two days after Elizabeth Warren announced her candidacy for president, an aide gave a statement to Axios that suggested the Massachusetts senator intends to court the green-leftist vote:...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Democratic Governors Pardoning More Prisoners?
Christmas is often described as the season of mercy, forgiveness, and redemption. For a handful of prisoners each year, that description has even greater meaning. Governors traditionally use the...
View ArticleThe Taming of Poland’s Far Right
From London to Rome, the European Union over the past decade has served as a useful punching bag, wheeled out to unite domestic voters against a conveniently opaque and unglamorous bogeyman. The...
View ArticleThe Ugly, Illiberal, Anti-Semitic Heart of the Yellow Vest Movement
Just days before Christmas, Thibaut Chevillard, a journalist with the French newspaper 20 Minutes, observed a harrowing scene on the Paris metro. A group of drunken gilets jaunes—“yellow vests”—on...
View ArticleYou’re the Worst’s Brilliant, Imperfect Ending
An early episode of the acerbic sitcom You’re the Worst, which follows the misadventures of four thirtysomethings living on the east side of Los Angeles, begins with a close-up of a mimosa in a...
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The Operative
Imagine a pivotal moment in the history of the Supreme Court. A longtime partisan political operative is nominated and confirmed to the court. The party putting him forward is in the peculiar position...
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