The New Republic’s First Issue of 2020 Profiles Joe Biden in His Last Bid for...
New York, NY — (January 6, 2020) — In The New Republic’s January/February 2020 cover story “A Man in Full,” veteran political reporter Walter Shapiro uses his decades of insight to reflect on the...
View ArticleThe Ulterior Motives of the Anti-War Right
Wednesday’s classified Hill briefing on the assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani seems to have gone poorly for the White House. According to Republican Senator Mike Lee, Trump...
View ArticleHow Far Will the Roberts Court Go to Protect Shadowy Political Donors?
The Supreme Court returns on Friday for the justices’ first conference of the new year. Two of the cases they’ll consider taking up are strange challenges to a California law aimed at preventing fraud...
View ArticleTrump Finds a New Way to Lick the Boot of the Fossil Fuel Industry
On Thursday, the Trump administration revealed its long-touted updates to the National Environmental Policy Act, the Nixon-era law that requires federal agencies to consider environmental and community...
View ArticleWhy Tucker Carlson Is Obsessed With Trash
Last month, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson devoted a portion of his nightly white nationalist variety show to litter. Not because Carlson is an environmentalist, or cares about civic pride or public health....
View ArticleCash Bail Was Never About Safety
The slow work of criminal justice reform is often piecemeal, a matter of politicizing the system’s routine practices and developing a moral language to undo them. Bail has become one of those issues,...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Crook in America
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan repeatedly steered state transportation development money to projects that would increase the value of his real estate holdings, according to a lengthy investigation by...
View ArticleBefore the U.S. Bombed Soleimani’s Terrorists, It Bribed Them
On January 3rd, shortly after killing Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah commander Abu Mahdi al Muhandis with a drone strike, the United States also reportedly targeted Shubul al...
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Culture War in the Workplace
The proceedings began with three fast, muted raps on the door. Layleen Cubilette-Polanco’s family and friends, joined by many, many people who’d never even met her, filled every row in the small,...
View ArticleThe Billionaire Grifter’s Threat to Democracy
Remember how 2018 was the year of the grifter? We were inundated with juicy stories of amazing con artists, from Anna Delvey’s rich girl scam to Elizabeth Holmes’s other rich girl scam. The summer of...
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How Crystal Eastman Fought for Equality
Who gets remembered, who gets lionized, in the history of leftist politics? Amy Aronson’s new biography of the feminist socialist reformer Crystal Eastman—the first full-length treatment of her...
View ArticleThe NFL Owners’ Unyielding Commitment to White Coaches
The Rooney Rule, a policy that requires any team in the National Football League to interview at least one diverse candidate for any open head coach or senior executive position, was introduced in...
View ArticleWhy Climate Denial Survives While Australia Burns
In April last year, 22 former fire and emergency chiefs from across Australia issued a statement just before a federal election, calling on Australia’s two major political parties—one of them likely to...
View ArticleToward a Working-Class Anti-War Movement
On the eve of what was ludicrously called Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was a teenager in Boise, Idaho, protesting in front of the state Capitol with the Idaho Green Party, a scattering of mostly Gen X...
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A Clear Menace
Minneapolis’s new football stadium could have avoided murdering hundreds of birds. The City Council voted to construct it from special glass coated in a film that birds can see. Unfortunately for the...
View ArticleDon’t Count Elizabeth Warren Out
Elizabeth Warren still bounds on stage at campaign events like she just heard the starter pistol, often shouting “Woo-hoo” for emphasis. She still has the most compelling stump speech of anyone in the...
View ArticleThe Plot to Level the Administrative State
The nondelegation doctrine, unlike most legal concepts, is less boring than it sounds. After the 1930s, it became constitutional esoterica, a relic of a bygone age in which the Supreme Court resisted...
View ArticleFast Furniture Is an Environmental Fiasco
Each year, Americans throw out more than 12 million tons of furniture and furnishings, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Only a small percentage is recycled, thanks to the diversity of...
View ArticleWorking Less Is a Labor Issue, Too
Sometimes he says, “If you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty,” and sometimes it’s, “People who work 40 hours a week should not be living in poverty,” but Bernie Sanders’s basic...
View ArticleCNN Unleashes Another Exercise in Diminishing Marginal Utility
The questions that have featured in this season of Democratic debates have alternated between infuriating and disappointing. Millions have watched as the media asks, on behalf of the American people,...
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