Bernie Sanders Isn’t Scared of Fox News. Why Is the Democratic Party?
Howard Schultz has it all figured out. The real problem with Democrats is that they don’t reach out to the other side. (This, incidentally, is also the real problem with Republicans.) So Schultz is...
View ArticleThe Everyday Brutality of America’s Prisons
Earlier this week, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division released a summary of its findings on the state of Alabama’s prisons. The accounts are stomach-churning: The New York Times noted that...
View ArticleThe Green New Deal Fan on Fox News Wasn’t a Random Diner. He’s a Climate...
It is well known that President Donald Trump likes to watch Fox & Friends every morning. So it is likely that the commander-in-chief was watching Thursday when a young man at a diner in Riverside,...
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Top Billing
On a spring evening in 1955, Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse met for the first time. She was the bigger star of the two, but technically he held much of the power. She was a famous Broadway dancer and...
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Blood Money
There’s a museum in East Jakarta that enshrines a toxic historical fantasy. Of course, all nations whitewash their bloody histories in the course of creating a heroic narrative about their stirring...
View ArticleThe Final Battle in Big Tech’s War to Dominate Your World
Bellum omnium contra omnes is Latin for “the war of all against all.” Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Hobbes used the phrase to describe the natural state of man in the absence of governmental...
View ArticleCentury Plants
It’s hard to saywhether we would have slept lesseasy in that rented room,knowing that past the window’sscratched glaucoma,the empty lot full of sand,they were waking—would wake—from thirty-years,these...
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In which the studio grows L-shaped, with an alcove for the bed, you modest dream, in which the railroad widens sideways, new door a sudden wing ought to invade the brownstone next door, but that...
View ArticleThe Stephen Miller Presidency
Stephen Miller is winning. In recent days, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for policy has overseen a purge of officials who were seen as insufficiently extreme on immigration. Homeland Security...
View ArticleWill John Roberts Let Trump Hide His Tax Returns Forever?
President Donald Trump really doesn’t want you to know what’s in his tax returns. During the 2016 campaign, he broke with 40 years of tradition by refusing to make them public. (He insisted they were...
View ArticleIs Belarus Putin’s Next Land Grab?
Last summer, in a small town overlooking the Russian border, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a stark and pointed pronouncement. “If we don’t survive these years—if we fail,” he said, “it...
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Down to Earth
How do you talk about an emergency when it seems as if no one is listening? For years, journalists, scientists, and activists concerned with the ongoing horror of climate catastrophe have faced this...
View ArticleThe New Republic Hires Veteran Editor Chris Lehmann
New York, NY—(April 8, 2019)—The New Republic announced Chris Lehmann as its full-time editor effective immediately, following his role as a consulting editorial director at the publication. Lehmann is...
View ArticleTrump’s War on the Rule of Law Is Reaching the Breaking Point
There’s a disturbing cycle to Donald Trump’s war on immigrants. It starts with the president’s demand for harsher policies on the southern border, no matter how legally or morally dubious they may be....
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The Making of an Anti-Semitic Myth
Even at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the old anti-Semitic specter of the Jew as a financial international manipulator and money-grubber persists, from Moscow and Budapest to Des Moines,...
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Alex Berenson and the Last Anti-Cannabis Crusade
In 1937, America’s first drug czar, Harry J. Anslinger, published a feature story in The American Magazine titled “Marijuana, Assassin of Youth.” The article featured a vicious ax murderer with a drug...
View ArticleThe Growing Obsession With Linking Iran to Terrorism
On Monday, President Trump designated the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran’s armed forces, as a “terrorist organization.” CIA and Pentagon officials told The New York...
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Susan Choi’s Missing Persons
Half-child and half-adult, adolescents are not very interesting. Adolescence is a temporary madness, common as a cold and usually about as profound. Maybe that’s one reason it interests artists: Teens...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Silent Majority
A week ago, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign looked like it was dead on arrival. Accusations of unwanted touching brought forth by several women had become a major issue. Biden was lampooned by...
View ArticleWhy the Religious Right Is Terrified of Pete Buttigieg
When Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced he was gay in a South Bend Tribune op-ed in 2015, at the ripe old coming-out age of 33, his rhetoric was anything but revolutionary. He had struggled for years, he...
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