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The Water Wars Are Here
Everyone remembers the scene in Chinatown when Jack Nicholson almost gets his nose sliced off, but many do not recall what the dispute was about. It wasn’t drug smuggling or gun running that got...
View ArticleWhat the Press Gets Wrong About Primary Debates
The morning following a Democratic debate is like waking up after a loud cocktail party and trying to piece together the discordant images from a long night. You recall Bernie Sanders, true to form,...
View ArticleJulián Castro Is Not Here to Make Friends
For all the plans and white papers the Democratic presidential candidates have released—for all of the vigorous back and forth between the field’s progressives and moderates on health care, climate,...
View ArticleThe Case for a Public Option for the Drug Industry
Under siege from thousands of lawsuits from federal, state, and local governments for its role in the deadly opioid addiction crisis, drug manufacturer Purdue Pharma reached a tentative settlement with...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Trapped in Trump’s “Deep State” War
The ongoing contretemps between President Donald Trump and the intelligence community forces a dismal and daunting question: Whose side must be taken in a power struggle between a legion of...
View ArticleSchrödinger’s Impeachment
It’s one of the most famous thought experiments ever devised. “A cat is penned up in a steel chamber,” the physicist Erwin Schrödinger wrote in a...
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The Blood-Dimmed Tide
It’s the year 2100. The nationalist ideology popularized by Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, and Boris Johnson has not only retained its hold on industrialized nations, but also expanded amid conditions...
View ArticleThe Curse of Osama Bin Laden
Five years before masterminding the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, Osama bin Laden laid out his strategy in a declaration of jihad “against the...
View ArticleIT: Chapter Two and the Great American Tradition of Selling Native Spirituality
There’s laziness, there’s racism, and there’s lazy racism. About 45 minutes into IT: Chapter Two, which remained atop the box office last weekend, the three-hour movie reveals it’s aiming for the...
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How Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Novel Reckons With the Past
Eight years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an essay in The Atlantic asking why so few black people studied the Civil War. Coates noted that he himself had only recently become an avid reader of Civil War...
View ArticleThe NRA Is Not a Domestic Terrorist Organization
The National Rifle Association (NRA) may be dedicated to armed self-defense, but the organization itself is largely indefensible. NRA leader Wayne LaPierre, who billed the group for his luxury clothing...
View ArticleJonathan Safran Foer on Our Moral Obligation to Eat Better
At the United Nation’s climate conference in Poland last year, I sat around a dinner table with a group of Polish forestry experts, environmental journalists, and two climate deniers—female radio...
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The Obscure Newspaper Fueling the Far-Right in Europe
In 2017, Stefanie Albrecht, an investigative reporter for German broadcaster RTL, was in the midst of what would become a prize-winning investigation of Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right party...
View ArticleEdward Snowden’s Novel Makeover
Edward Snowden’s new memoir, Permanent Record, wasn’t eagerly anticipated. That’s only because hardly anyone had heard about it before Snowden’s publisher, Macmillan, announced in August that it would...
View ArticleBrett Kavanaugh Has Democrats Running Scared
For many women—those who have experienced assault, who generally believe that it happens, or who were not already politically predisposed to not believe this instance occurred—the debacle of Brett...
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The Climate Disaster Inside America’s Prisons
Global warming far and away is the most pressing issue facing the United States (and the rest of the planet). The fast-approaching climate reckoning is bigger than the presidential election, bigger...
View ArticleCovering for Roy Cohn
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,” sang Leonard Cohen, who died the day before Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, which he had confidently predicted. “Everybody knows the fight was fixed / The poor...
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We Didn’t Stand a Chance Against Opioids
My ancestors had no written language, so they told their stories to the trees. Ten thousand years after the Tlingit people settled Alaska’s southeastern archipelago, these islands remain stippled with...
View ArticleHow to Stop Kleptocrats From Stashing Their Cash in America
Convicted Russian national Viktor Bout spent years perfecting the art of international arms smuggling. At the height of his powers, he boasted a clientele that ranged from Central African dictators and...
View ArticleGM Workers Strike to Get Back What the Recession Stole
The story by now is near-common knowledge: In the throes of the last recession, the nation’s Big Three automakers—General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford—accepted a $51 billion bailout from the federal...
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