Tom Perez’s Preposterous Debate Rules
“I do think that the debate rules have been deeply destructive to the field and to my campaign. It has made it hard to raise money because people view the debates as sort of a proxy for success.” The...
View ArticleFast Fashion at the End of the World
I cannot talk about fashion without talking about the end of the world. For a long time I argued that fashion was political; now I argue that fashion is apocalyptic. Today, the industry that produces...
View ArticleDon’t Withhold the Articles of Impeachment
The House of Representatives took a historic step this week by approving two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Now the House’s leaders are mulling an unprecedented next step:...
View ArticleClimate Change Displacement Is Not Hypothetical
When climate change is discussed, especially in the political sphere, it doesn’t take long for the word “existential” to start getting tossed around. This tends to frame the matter in the far-off...
View ArticleThe Tangled Politics of Bombshell
Within its first 15 minutes, Bombshell, Jay Roach’s new film about the downfall of Roger Ailes, asks us to believe something incredible: that Megyn Kelly (played by Charlize Theron) cares about the...
View ArticleThe End of the Ideas Primary
The first mention of health care came about two hours into Thursday night’s Democratic primary debate, the last such encounter until 2020. This was a departure from previous debates, in which questions...
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A Decade of Liberal Delusion and Failure
Welcome to The Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.As 2009 ended, the editors of this magazine...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Vaudeville Act
In the pre-dawn darkness after a presidential debate, the glib certainties of the previous night become tangled with the wisps of forgotten dreams. This sleep-aided loss of clarity serves as a reminder...
View ArticleThe People vs. Richard Jewell
It’s my own fault that I could not, until recently, recall the name of the person who planted a bomb in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics; it’s also my own fault that I couldn’t say whether that case...
View ArticleCould America’s Founders Have Imagined This?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday invoked the nation’s birth in defending her decision to delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate. “Our Founders, when they wrote the Constitution, they...
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The Hell That Was Health Care Reform
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.In 2007, the next president of the United...
View ArticleRupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade
Rupi Kaur has published two books: 2015’s Milk and Honey, 2017’s The Sun and Her Flowers. Her epigrammatic verse is spare, the offspring of classical aphorism (if you’re feeling generous) and the...
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The Collapse of Neoliberalism
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.With the 2008 financial crash and the Great...
View ArticleBoeing Axes CEO as Company Hits New Heights of Self-Denial
Merry Christmas, Boeing shareholders: Your lame-duck CEO Dennis Muilenburg has been put out of his lucrative misery, to be replaced by board chairman David Calhoun, late of the glorious institutions...
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The Decade When Republicans Stole the States
Welcome to The Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.In September 2010, Jon Stewart, then the...
View ArticleCats Got Your Tongue
You’ve already heard that Cats is not very good. People will still see it because they love to be in on the joke. Perfect films—Bicycle Thieves, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Safe, Short Cuts—are surely not...
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How the Democratic Party Learned to Wage Class Warfare
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.It may have begun with Lehman Brothers, the...
View ArticleThe Reenactment
What mattered in early wars was the cavalry marching through deep muck, the fife & drums,stern ravens, words called out across small, stagnant ponds. They tell us every landscape longs to be a...
View ArticleA Rebirth of Communal Liberty?
The first paper I wrote in a college political science course addressed the question of whether the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau—with his concept of fusing the individual wills of...
View ArticleThe Suffrages
Freedom doesn’t think on us.It’s nota god, it’s a wordwe further(a word we once tore downforests to tell)...
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