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What Happened to Peter Daou?
In November, the liberal activist and Twitter personality Peter Daou got into a spat with an unlikely adversary: Neera Tanden, the head of the Center for American Progress and Daou’s erstwhile ally in...
View ArticleThe Smartest Guys in the Clubhouse
In 2017, the Houston Astros stopped striking out. That wasn’t the only reason why the team went from 84 wins to 101, and catapulted from finishing third in the American League West in 2016 to winning...
View ArticleWhy Is the UNC System Giving Confederate Apologists $2.5 Million?
Last Wednesday, with large swaths of the American workforce winding down and looking ahead to a long weekend, an unusual deal was struck. The University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors, the...
View ArticleThe Failure of the Adults
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist, has captivated the world. The Swedish teenager, who just a little over one year ago conducted a lonely, solo school strike in front of her country’s...
View ArticleImpeaching Trump Is About More Than Punishment
Impeachment is often understood as a punitive measure. When the president (or any other federal official) breaks their constitutional oath, Congress can step in and deprive the person of the office....
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Life Under the Algorithm
Henry Noll was one of the most famous workers in American history, though not by his own choice and not under his own name. Employed at Bethlehem Steel for $1.15 a day, and known among workmates for...
View ArticleLabor Took on “Bad Bosses” Long Before #MeToo
“Will There Ever Be a #MeToo-Style Movement for Bad Bosses?” New York magazine asked readers in a tone-deaf fog of obliviousness last month. The piece itself was fairly benign, addressing the...
View ArticleTucker Carlson Debuts a New Ukrainegate Defense
Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, America’s least charismatic white supremacist, has apologized for covering the ongoing impeachment hearings, which he has deemed “tiresome,” “dumb,” and “boring.” As he...
View ArticleDon’t Embrace Originalism to Defend Trump’s Impeachment
In the pending congressional impeachment inquiry, the House Judiciary Committee is charged with (among other things) taking up the question of what the constitutional process of impeachment means. To...
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The Uneasy Uplift of The Testaments
When I first read The Handmaid’s Tale, the world was in the midst of a huge social experiment: If we just told girls that sexism was over, would it somehow turn out to be true? Growing up as a (rich,...
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André Aciman’s Dance to the Music of Time
It’s a little misleading to call Find Me, the new novel by André Aciman, a sequel to Call Me by Your Name, Aciman’s first novel, which was published in 2007 and adapted in 2017 into a critically...
View ArticleThe Cops Are Culture Warriors
When San Francisco voters elected Chesa Boudin, a public defender running on a platform to end mass incarceration, as district attorney in November, their decision was swiftly heralded as the end of an...
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In Making Comics, Lynda Barry Shares the Secrets of Her Success
Whenever I find myself in my sons’ school, taking in the crayon scribbles that line the hallway, I think of this, from John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation: When the kids were little, we went to a...
View ArticleDuncan Hunter Did Something Right
Congressman Duncan Hunter seemed in no hurry to get back inside to the Christmas party at a Capitol Hill Mexican restaurant thrown by a Norwegian weapons company, so we each lit up another cigarette,...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Endorses Joe Biden’s Delusions
If Nate Silver’s band of Bayesians can be believed, then former Vice President Joe Biden is winning the 2020 presidential race’s “endorsement primary”—and by a substantial margin. Whether or not this...
View ArticleThe Media’s Disingenuous Narrative About Medicare for All
The consensus among wonks is that Democratic politicians who support Medicare for All are saddling themselves with an unpopular policy. Never mind whether they’re supporting an effective policy; it’s...
View ArticleCongressman Objects to Casino-Goers Being Subject to Local Law if They...
Yesterday, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Representative Deb Haaland’s Justice for Native Survivors of Sexual Violence Act, which she introduced in July with a bipartisan group...
View ArticleClimate Change Is the Ultimate “OK, Boomer” Issue
On a Sunday in November, 170 students filed into the Vermont Statehouse, using the legislature’s chambers to talk about the climate crisis and solutions for their state. Participants in the Youth...
View ArticleRepublicans are Defining Foreign Interference Down
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is not a fool, but he seems to think that Americans—or at least Meet the Press viewers—are fools. Conservative outlets and pundits have long claimed that Ukrainian officials...
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The Man Behind the Right Wing’s Favorite Conspiracy Theories
No one is sure where President Trump got the idea that the Democratic National Committee’s hacked server was hidden in Ukraine. As the impeachment saga unfolds, even the president’s most ardent...
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