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Did the Mexican People Really Win?
On July 1, 2018, the night of the election of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, I joined several friends to make our way to Mexico City’s Zócalo—the central square of this sprawling...
View ArticleDo Democrats Really Want To See Trump’s Tax Returns?
On Tuesday, House Democrats finally, at long last, took the Trump administration to court over its steadfast refusal to obey a subpoena for the president’s tax returns. The move came almost exactly six...
View ArticleDemocrats Should Attack the Trump Economy
Donald Trump tried to turn Independence Day into a celebration of himself. It was—thanks to poor planning, bad weather, and his hubris—a catastrophe. But a day later, Trump found another, less...
View ArticleTo Beat the Gerrymander, Think Outside the Lines
Voters in North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Maryland deserve fair maps that don’t lock in a partisan advantage for either Republicans or Democrats. Federal courts nationwide had recently...
View ArticleAn Economy in Waiting
The 2020 Democratic field now teems with proposals to mitigate rampaging wealth and income inequality, from Kamala Harris’s plan to increase tax credits for low- and moderate-income families to...
View ArticleThe Toxic-Gas Catastrophe Hiding Beneath Your Home
In October 2015, a fragile well casing ruptured at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage field in Los Angeles, California—and no one could figure out how to stop it. For 118 days, 100,000 metric tons of...
View ArticleTrump Tries to Gaslight Planet Earth
The Republican Party’s approach to climate change used to be wholesale denial. Global warming was a hoax perpetrated either by greedy climate scientists or foreign countries that wanted control over...
View ArticleLindsey Graham’s “Achilles’ Heel”
Aside from Maine’s Susan Collins—who is a “moderate” until the moment Mitch McConnell needs her vote to Kavanaugh-ize the Supreme Court—Lindsey Graham is the most duplicitous Republican senator running...
View ArticleWhat Does Big Tech Want From Buttigieg?
Pete Buttigieg made more than a few jaws drop last week when he released quarterly donation tallies that outperformed his place in the opinion polls by a large margin. Between April and July, Buttigieg...
View ArticleXXXVI
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View ArticleThe Millennials Arrive at America’s Most Famous Hippie Community
In 2014, Laura Look and her boyfriend, Trevor Eustis, decided to sell their possessions and move into a van they had nicknamed Carlos Vantana. They had planned to roam the country for at least a year....
View ArticleFor the Living in the New World
There are so many ways to walk through a forest— through clover clusters, along a boardwalk lined with skunk cabbages—to a field where we listen to a ghost of song. The hypergreen we step through is...
View ArticleFriday Night Fights With Ukraine’s Far Right
With burgers-and-beer menu in front of me, it doesn’t seem that different at first from a typical American sports bar.The tattooed men nearby, maybe in their twenties, look like they spend every other...
View ArticleThe War to Empower Rural White Voters Is Bigger Than Trump
One month before Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, the Supreme Court agreed to consider a bid by conservative legal activists to rejigger the boundaries of American electoral politics in...
View ArticleTom Steyer’s $100 Million Vanity Project
What would you do if you suddenly received a check for $100 million? Many Americans would probably embrace a more lavish personal lifestyle: a bigger house, more expensive car, fancy overseas trips....
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New Orleans Braces for a One-Two Weather Punch
The 2019 hurricane season has barely begun, and a troubling storm is already brewing. Heavy rains paralyzed New Orleans on Wednesday, with as much as ten inches falling in just a few hours, and the...
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Pining for the Moon
The moon belongs as much to art as to science. In the eighth century, the Venerable Bede described an eclipse correctly in flourishing prose, and vibrant illustrations of the satellite’s phases abound...
View ArticleIt’s Plainly Obvious That Donald Trump Has No Iran Policy
What, precisely, does Donald Trump want to do with Iran? It’s increasingly clear that even he doesn’t know the answer to that question.Last month, the president seemed close to taking military action...
View ArticleAlexander Acosta’s Trumpian Non-Apology
It was already clear before this week that Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, as a federal prosecutor a decade ago, had mishandled the Jeffrey Epstein case: He gave the well-connected hedge-fund...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Has Power—She Just Doesn’t Want to Use It
On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi reminded her caucus who the real enemy is, telling them that they needed to present a united front in the fight against Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. “Without that unity,...
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