Is Brexit Worse Than Trump?
Everything that could go wrong with Britain’s imminent departure from the European Union seems to have done so. With only 59 days to go until the U.K. automatically crashes out of the bloc, British...
View ArticleWhy Are We Still Fascinated by Ted Bundy?
There is a rich abundance of nonfiction entertainment about Ted Bundy, America’s most notorious serial killer. In each instance, the author or television producer tells the story of Bundy’s heinous...
View ArticleRussian Doll Is a Spiky Comedy About Self-Destruction
Leslye Headland, the co-creator of the new comedy Russian Doll on Netflix, is perhaps our sharpest dramatic writer when it comes to cruelty. Headland, who created the series with Amy Poehler and the...
View ArticleHoward Schultz Learned All the Wrong Lessons From His Childhood
You could say that Howard Schultz has daddy issues. The former Starbucks CEO returns to his late father again and again in his new memoir, From the Ground Up, and often with disapproval. “My father...
View ArticleDemocrats Are About to Give Big Pharma the Big Tobacco Treatment
Since flipping the House of Representatives in last year’s midterms, Democrats have been waiting to see real oversight return to the halls of Congress. That arrived on Tuesday, with the Committee on...
View ArticleWhy This Victim of Blatant Racial Discrimination Struggled to Get a Fair Trial
The discussion around criminal justice reform these days usually centers around the same four or five themes. We need to change sentencing laws and guidelines so people aren’t thrown into prison for...
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America’s Epidemic of Vaccine Exemptions
To be a parent in the 1950s was to know that your child would at some point contract measles, a highly contagious virus characterized by fever and rash. When it happened, most parents needed only to...
View ArticleThe Courts Are Making a Killing on Public Records
For most of the nation’s history, the most common way to read court filings was to travel to the courthouse itself, pull up a desk in the clerk’s office, and leaf through them by hand. This was hardly...
View ArticleThe Shadowy Group Keeping a Right-Wing Stranglehold on the States
Last month, with the inauguration of a newly elected Democratic governor fast approaching, Michigan’s Republican legislators made a last-minute attempt to ram through a bill to dramatically weaken...
View ArticleIn Defense of Serenity
If there’s anything that you might already know about the new Matthew McConaughey movie Serenity, it’s that it contains a big twist. And if there’s anything you know about the big critics’ reviews,...
View ArticleThe False Martyrdom of Roger Stone
From the way some have spoken about Roger Stone’s arrest last week, a casual observer could be mistaken for thinking that the veteran GOP political operative and longtime Trump adviser was the victim...
View ArticleCould Unions Help Defeat ISIS?
What’s the best way to fight terrorism? As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan and Syria, shifting from the unending War on Terror to the no less unending “Great Power competition” with China...
View ArticleThe Fetid, Right-Wing Origins of “Learn to Code”
Last Thursday, I received the news that the HuffPost Opinion section—where I’d been opining on a weekly basis for a few months—had been axed in its entirety. The same opinion column had had a home at...
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Serbian Journalists Are Under Attack. Does the International Community Care?
Aleksandar Vucic is a busy president. The Serbian leader claims to work at least 15 hours a day, from early in the morning until at least 10:30 in the evening—“as long as I can endure.” And from his...
View ArticleHoward Schultz Is Democrats’ Chance to Bury Clintonism Forever
Ever since Howard Schultz announced on Sunday that he was considering an independent bid for president, a kind of mass hysteria has gripped the left broadly. The overwhelming reaction was one of fear:...
View ArticleBudweiser’s Super Bowl B.S.
The iconic American beer with the cherry-red label is going green. Since 2017, Budweiser has ditched its gas-powered delivery trucks in favor of Teslas. It has begun converting all of its U.S. brewing...
View ArticleTrump Is Not Going to Be Talked Out of Attacking the Press
President Donald Trump on Thursday sat down with two reporters from The New York Times and its publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, for one of his semi-regular Oval Office interviews with the newspaper. As is...
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A Sadistic Master Storyteller
In his 1881 masterpiece, Epitaph of a Small Winner, the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis instructs his readers to memorize the phrase “the voluptuousness of misery.” “Study it from time to time,...
View ArticleFacebook Remade the Internet in Its Hideous Image
Fifteen years ago today, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook—then known as TheFacebook—out of his Harvard dorm room. It now has more than two and a half billion users across its applications, including...
View ArticleRalph Northam’s Trumpian Lack of Shame
Ralph Northam still has the lawful power to exercise his constitutional duties as governor of Virginia. Over the last four days, however, he has forsaken whatever moral or democratic authority he once...
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