A Charter School Gets Canceled for Wanting to Teach Indigenous History
There’s an old saying that history is written by the victors. It’s not entirely accurate, as evidenced by both Lost Cause narratives and the paucity of historians on battlefields. But there is a kernel...
View ArticleDeval Patrick Volunteers to Lose Democratic Primary
Just as the potential candidacies of billionaires Howard Schultz and Michael Bloomberg have left us to wonder about who might be the constituency for such a transparent defense of the ruling class,...
View ArticleCome on Down and Testify, Donald Trump!
Ohio Representative Jim Jordan spent most of Wednesday’s impeachment hearings criticizing the witnesses who testified, the Democratic lawmakers who called them, and the inquiry itself. He also...
View ArticleThe Kingmaker Reveals the Real Imelda Marcos
The scariest thing at 2019’s box office isn’t Joaquin Phoenix’s clown, or the uncanny valley felines of Cats, or Pennywise. It’s Imelda Marcos. The Kingmaker, the fourth feature by the director and...
View ArticleClimate Change Is Already Hurting Kids’ Health
Wildfires blazing across North America and Australia, heatwaves scorching Europe and Asia, cyclones ravaging Africa and the Caribbean. Climate change is already here, and it’s only going to get worse....
View ArticleThe Media Is Hopelessly Addicted to Donald Trump
The impeachment hearings got their first made-for-TV moment during ousted Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony, thanks to a cameo from President Trump. Early in Yovanovitch’s testimony,...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Retreats From Medicare for All
“Why would anyone go through all the trouble of running for president just to get up on stage and talk about what’s not possible?” This is the question Elizabeth Warren posed to thumb-faced millionaire...
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Climate Change’s Great Lithium Problem
Bolivia is in the midst of a brutal upheaval. Following weeks of protests, armed forces have compelled longtime, left-leaning President Evo Morales to step down after reports of “manipulations” in last...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the Absolute Power Presidency
Those who tuned in to last week’s congressional testimony from Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, heard an awkward phrase over and over again: that political appointees “serve at...
View ArticleThe Climate Movement Needs More Creative Tactics
The United States’ climate movement emerged unexpectedly. Following a decade of Ronald Reagan and Gordon Gekko singing the praises of the free market, climate catastrophe joined the national...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Frantic Defense of the Status Quo
With the entry of former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick into the Democratic primary race, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg exploring a bid, and Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend,...
View ArticleThe Fall of Nate Silver
Did he change, or did we? For weeks now, Nate Silver has been morphing before our eyes into exactly the kind of bloviator he made his name mocking. Tired perhaps of the slow and predictable business of...
View ArticleTrump Makes Japan an Offer It Can’t Refuse
NATO has faced plenty of existential scares in the era of President Donald Trump, but now the United States’ long-standing allies in East Asia have become victims of the president’s haphazard...
View ArticleTrump Enforces Omertà With Latest Round of Pardons
President Donald Trump closed out the first week of impeachment hearings with a self-inflicted wound. Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testified on Friday morning that she felt...
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How to Break Up Corporate Giants
Anyone who lived in New York City in the 1970s and ’80s is likely familiar with the discount electronics store chain Crazy Eddie. By 1987, there were over 40 stores spread across four states, which...
View ArticleWho Run the World? Charlie’s Angels!
The deeply silly late-1970s television show Charlie’s Angels is a camp artifact, the tale of three comely lasses jiggling their way to justice. It’s not exactly Shakespeare or the Ramayana, the sort of...
View ArticleDeval Patrick Was an Overrated Governor
When Deval Patrick was preparing to leave the job of Massachusetts governor five years ago, the state Democratic Party found itself in a unique bind—not through any fault of his, mind you. The local...
View ArticleThe War Criminals I Have Known
The lower-ranking accused war criminals I’ve known all struck me as really nice guys, right up until it seemed they weren’t. That’s war for you. Things are fine until they’re not, and then after that...
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Locking People Up: South Dakota’s On It
“Meth: We’re On It.” For the briefest of moments Monday evening, these words managed to drown out impeachment analysis as social media cocked a collective eyebrow in the direction of South Dakota.The...
View ArticleTrump’s Ukraine Defenders Are Caught in an Existential Crisis
In the White House’s telling of events, the two staffers who testified on Tuesday morning weren’t credible and also cleared the president of any wrongdoing. “We have learned nothing new in today’s...
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