Arrest Me, You Alabama Cowards
I don’t remember the name of the doctor who performed my abortion. I don’t even remember what she looked like.Maybe it’s because she didn’t actually “perform” a procedure. She answered my questions;...
View ArticleThe Tenants’ Rights Movement Is Expanding Beyond Big Cities
When Lauren Sumahit answered the door of her apartment in Newburgh, New York one summer day last year, she was expecting to find an exterminator to take care of the mice and bedbugs that had become...
View ArticleThe House of Roberts
Donald Trump’s hostility toward congressional oversight is leading some of his critics to describe him in monarchical terms. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank argued that the president’s legal...
View ArticleThe Way to Trump’s Heart Is Through His Ego
When Donald Trump pardoned self-hating historical fiction writer Dinesh D’Souza last May, many assumed the move was part of a larger plan. Trump, in what quickly became conventional wisdom, was sending...
View ArticleThe Watergate Editor on How Trump “Leads the Press Around by the Nose”
Everybody’s heard of Woodward and Bernstein, if only from their portrayals by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as the avenging angels of Watergate in All the President’s Men. But their editor, Barry...
View ArticleOligarch of the Month: Laurence Doud III
In 2016, Laurence Doud III had a seven-figure salary, an honorary degree from the Albany College of Pharmacy, and a beach home in Florida. As Rochester Drug Cooperative’s CEO, he’d handed out lavish...
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Reclaiming the Future
One day last February, I found myself seated on stage, rather incongruously, between the neoconservative Never Trumper–turned–Resistance hero Bill Kristol and my friend Natasha Lennard, a radical...
View ArticleJoe Biden Is the Democrats’ Safety School
At an outdoor table at a bagel shop a few blocks from the state capitol building in Concord, New Hampshire, two Democratic state representatives were gently sparring over Joe Biden.“A lot has come up...
View ArticleThe Criminalization of Women’s Bodies Is All About Conservative Male Power
Let’s start by acknowledging that women are not things. Before we talk, like we have to, about what the attacks on abortion access mean for this anxious, awful political era, let’s establish as a...
View ArticleHarvard Was Right to Fire Ron Sullivan
When Harvard Law School professor Ron Sullivan lost his esteemed position as faculty dean of Winthrop House last weekend, and withdrew from Harvey Weinstein’s defense team, he secured a new one in the...
View ArticleVictory Does Not Depend on Swing Voters
Nothing captures the imagination of the political press like the all-important, quasi-talismanic “swing voter.” And so, with the 2020 presidential election now a mere 18 months away, the electorate is...
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Care in a Land of Closing Hospitals
Echocardiology is the science of using high frequency sound waves to create pictures of the heart. During an echo test, a doctor observes the functionality of the heart, monitoring the pathways by...
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Socialism and the Democracy Deficit
What is Democratic Socialism? I read considerable talk about “the democratic” as applying to the process of getting socialism; damn little about it as an adjective applying to socialism when you get...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Worst Finale Ever?
Each Monday, members of The New Republic staff will discuss the latest episode of Game of Thrones, now in its eight and final season. Join Josephine Livingstone, Alex Shephard, and Ryu Spaeth as they...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Plan to Save Abortion Rights Is Full of Asterisks
When Alabama last week passed an outright abortion ban, with no exceptions for rape or incest, it drove home a frightening reality: The Republican Party, if given enough power, will fully rob women of...
View ArticleWho Actually Wants War Criminals Pardoned?
On first glance, it’s hard to see who would support pardons for these men.Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher was reported to his commanders by seven of the Navy SEALs who served under him in Iraq,...
View ArticleMake Corporate America Pay for Underpaying Women
In 1980, women in America made 60 cents for every dollar men earned. By 2001, it had climbed to 76 cents. At that pace, women’s wages today should be around 90 percent of men’s. Instead, they’ve barely...
View ArticleSocialism in No Country
In her illuminating essay “The Revolutionary Tradition and its Lost Treasure”—itself a lost treasure, as so few people who consider themselves within the Western revolutionary tradition ever read or...
View ArticleFans Are Ruining Game of Thrones—And Everything Else
It was bound to end this way. Given its colossal success, cultural saturation, and the impossible expectations that come from being “event television,” the Game of Thrones finale was always going to be...
View ArticleWhy Milkshaking Works
The biggest topic in British political circles on Monday wasn’t the country’s impending departure from the European Union. It was milkshakes—or, rather, one milkshake in particular that was lobbed by a...
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