Beto O’Rourke Doesn’t Want to Run for Senate. That’s Fine.
Beto O’Rourke is sick of people telling him to run for Senate again. “You know the question’s going to keep coming up,” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell told O’Rourke on Thursday, “this question of what...
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Shock Corridor
As reports exposing the shockingly brutal conditions at immigrant detention centers have drawn comparisons to ethnic detention compounds under authoritarian regimes, it becomes ever more pressing for...
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What Have You Done, Richard Linklater?
Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette is not the greatest book ever written, but it is so much better than the new movie adaptation by Richard Linklater that it warrants defense. Do not be fooled...
View ArticleTrump’s Quiet Attack on Redistricting
It went largely unnoticed last week, but the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign to structurally tilt American democracy in the Republican Party’s favor is proceeding apace. President Donald Trump...
View ArticleThe Beltway Book of the Damned
Who among us has been secretly longing for a book-length Axios newsletter that comprises the sanguine opinions of cable news greenroom habitués and is compiled by a serial sexual predator? Disgraced...
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The Future for Labor
In high school, in the late ’90s, my friends and I played hooky and drove to Flint, Michigan, where we heard there was going to be a strike at the Delphi plant, an auto parts supplier to General...
View ArticleTrump’s Title X Restrictions Are Nothing Short of Coercion
Planned Parenthood announced Monday it was being “forced out” of a federal family planning funding program. Rather than obey a new anti-abortion restriction attached to those federal funds, the...
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The Subtle Politics of Graphic Design
In 2008, Barack Obama’s Chicago headquarters housed engineers from Facebook and coders from Google. Everything was optimized for the web, from the talking points to the logo—the simple, minimal, now...
View ArticleTrump’s Tax on the National Psyche
The most incredible thing about last week’s decision in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on detained migrant children is that the case existed at all. The court ruled that the Trump administration...
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Who Gets to Speak Freely?
What is free speech? The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—perhaps the most explicit legal protection of the right to free speech in the entire world—does not say. It simply states that...
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The New American Homeless
Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed letter from her landlord in the mailbox. She felt a familiar panic as she began to read it. For nearly a year, Goodman and her...
View ArticleThe Absurd Strategy Behind Russia’s Nuclear Explosion
The United States and Russia are entering a new arms race, and the costs aren’t just monetary. On August 8, Russian civilians around the remote village of Nyonoksa found themselves downwind of a...
View ArticleThe Small Business Solution to Saving the Amazon
It was the Baniwa women who came up with the idea to sell the Jiquitaia chili peppers.They had already planted and picked the peppers in their own gardens in their communities along the Rio Içana, a...
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Rudyard Kipling, American Imperialist
Last summer, students at the University of Manchester arrived in their newly refurbished Students’ Union building to find some words of advice painted on a wall before them: If you can keep your head...
View ArticleJawline Explores the Teenage Dream of Social Media
America now divides into two classes: those who have lived with social media–laden smartphones since childhood, and the rest of us. Note how we elders are now the exception, rather than the rule, since...
View ArticleJeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler
If you are an accomplished science or technology writer, your books are probably handled by the most powerful literary agency in the field: the famous Brockman Inc., started by John Brockman and now...
View ArticleConservative Judges Are Brawling Over Originalism
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a notable ruling on police shootings this week, ruling in favor of a man whose encounter with law enforcement nearly a decade ago left him with profound...
View ArticleIs the Biden Bubble About to Burst?
Joe Biden never thought he’d have to do this. Positioned, as he was, as the affable veep to an immensely popular president, the veteran of three previous bids for the Democratic nomination assumed a...
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The Integration Success Stories
On April 19, 1971, the Senate began debate on legislation that had the potential to foster meaningful integration in American schools. The bill was Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s baby. He...
View ArticleIndian Country Fights to Protect Its Children and Preserve Its Sovereignty
As president of both the Quinault Nation and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Fawn Sharp is a busy person. As of late, much of her time has been dedicated to the fight for Native children...
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