Hurricane Florence Is a Public Health Emergency, Too
Florence, the hurricane charging toward the Carolina coast, has been called a “monster,” a “Mike Tyson punch,” and the “storm of a lifetime.” On Wednesday, it was generating waves up to 83-feet high....
View ArticleNew York Elects Its Next Anti-Trump Warrior
By winning the Democratic primary to be New York’s next attorney general, Tish James is now virtually guaranteed to become the state’s top legal officer this November. That position will almost...
View ArticleWhy the Gubernatorial Glass Ceiling Is So Hard to Shatter
For the first time in American history, white men comprise a minority of Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives: The party has nominated 180 women and 133 people of color for the...
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Britain’s Boarding School Problem
When socially privileged children are separated from their families at a tender age, some develop what psychotherapists have called “Boarding School Syndrome”: “a defensive and protective encapsulation...
View ArticleRobert Mueller Is Winning
Robert Mueller first dropped Paul Manafort into the criminal-justice system last October, and he’s been tightening the vise ever since. The special counsel has flipped Manafort’s close associates and...
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Behind Hurricane Florence’s Poop Lagoon Crisis, a Nation of Pork Lovers
Even before Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina on Friday morning, it had an impact: introducing the phrase “poop lagoon” to the nation. As forecasters cemented the storm’s track,...
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The Origins of America’s Enduring Divisions
“To write history is to make an argument by telling a story,” Jill Lepore once explained. And the argument a historian makes about America’s long, turbulent, and demographically complex past—from the...
View ArticleThe Devastating Slowness of Hurricane Florence
If Hurricane Florence were an animal, she’d be a sloth—albeit an unusually dangerous one. The storm became a major hurricane on September 9, prompting potentially apocalyptic but uncertain forecasts....
View ArticleWhat Digging Up Franco Has to Do With Democracy
“Exclusive: Photograph of the remains of Franco,” a Twitter user posted in late August. It was a joke: The accompanying picture showed not the dusty bones of Spain’s former dictator, but a portrait of...
View ArticleThe ‘Me Too’ Movement Hits McDonald’s
On September 18, McDonald’s workers in 10 cities will make history, striking to protest what they say is a persistent failure to enforce company rules against sexual harassment at work. The Time’s Up...
View ArticleWhy This Time Is Different
It’s impossible to think about the sexual-assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh without thinking about Anita Hill. In October 1991, the law professor quietly gave the Senate...
View ArticleDemocrats: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up On Brett Kavanaugh
For Republicans, getting a second Supreme Court vacancy before the end of Donald Trump’s second year in office has been like winning the lottery twice. The decision to discard democratic and...
View ArticleThe Unequal Burden of Climate Change
Two massive tropical cyclones made landfall on separate ends of the globe on Friday. But they were, as the Associated Press put it, “as different as water and wind.” The wind storm was Super Typhoon...
View ArticleThe Problem With Giving Teenage Kavanaugh a Pass
Defenders of the beleaguered Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh have taken to arguing, in a lawyerly way of exploring a hypothesis, that even if Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual...
View ArticleA Better Way to Fight “Corporate Welfare”
Senator Bernie Sanders has spent much of the summer highlighting the low wages at major American corporations and contrasting it with the astronomical pay for top executives. The title of a town hall...
View ArticleThe One Thing About Yemen Everyone Gets Wrong
When protests inspired by uprisings in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia hit Yemen in 2011, the United States and the United Kingdom, the regime’s main backers, at first pooh-poohed the protestors’ grievances....
View ArticleThe American Rule of Law Has Failed Women
For the second time in almost 30 years, the Senate Judiciary Committee is publicly weighing sexual-misconduct claims made against a Supreme Court nominee. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley announced on...
View ArticleHurricane Florence Is a Category 5 Disaster
Before he left for North Carolina on Wednesday to survey damage caused by Hurricane Florence, President Donald Trump released a video celebrating his administration’s response. “This was tough...
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Belief in Democracy
It hasn’t always been the case, but devout Christians can be curiosities, if not objects of outright skepticism, among American liberals and the broader left.While this state of affairs owes itself to...
View ArticleThe New Republic October Issue: The Evangelical Opposition
New York, NY—(September 20, 2018)—The New Republic today published its October issue, which features an incisive cover story by Bryan Mealer that explores a liberal’s search for God and faith in a...
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