Bernie Sanders Has Finally Got Republicans’ Attention
Bernie Sanders is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. It is true that the primary has entered a stage where the standings could become very fluid, very quickly. It is also the case that...
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The Loneliness of the Resistance Protester
The 2014 movie Pride tells the story of the 1984 coal miners’ strike in England and the unlikely partnership that grows between a group of radical gay and lesbian activists from London who organized in...
View ArticleIn Les Misérables, the Song Remains the Same
Emmett Till’s mother thought that if we saw pictures of her son’s corpse we’d be galvanized into action. She could not have foreseen the surveillance hall of mirrors in which we now find ourselves:...
View ArticleThe Perils of Going Negative
Julián Castro roamed the Spin Room after Thursday night’s debate like Banquo’s ghost.The former presidential candidate, who has quickly morphed into an enthusiastic pitchman for Elizabeth Warren,...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking Prevention Month Is a Dangerous Joke
A partially nude young woman, covering herself with a bright red pillow, is cowering in the corner of a bedroom. Two officers in uniforms reading “Police” and “HSI” approach her, and one reaches out a...
View ArticleThere’s Still So Much We Don’t Know About Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
All of the pieces are finally in place for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi named a slate of seven managers—House members who will act as prosecutors...
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An Experiment in Reading Elena Ferrante
“Read as little as possible of literary criticism,” Rilke warned Franz Xaver Kappus, the 19-year-old military cadet and addressee of Letters to a Young Poet. “Works of art are of an infinite solitude,”...
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The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. And It’s a Nightmare.
Vanessa Bain was less than a year into her gig as an Instacart shopper when the company announced it would no longer allow tipping on its app. Instacart instead began imposing a 10 percent “service...
View ArticleLet Them Fight!
Nothing twitches the loins of a Beltway take-monger quite like those three little words: Dems in Disarray. Pundits have no better reason to get out of bed and race to their sun-dappled desks than to...
View ArticleNATO Is Expanding, and Everyone Is Curiously Silent
North Macedonia has existed, technically, for only about a year. Not the nation itself—that country, an outgrowth of the Yugoslavian collapse, will soon be entering its fourth decade as an independent...
View ArticleCan Amazon Finally Crack the Bestseller Code?
As the last decade concluded, book publishers breathed a sigh of relief. The 2010s were characterized by a series of Amazon-related shock waves—the growing power of the retail behemoth, the rise of...
View ArticleThe Equal Rights Amendment May Have Found Its Moment
As the Virginia General Assembly prepared to vote on the Equal Rights Amendment on Wednesday, Democrat Jennifer Carroll Foy posed a question to her colleagues: “Which side of history do you want to be...
View ArticleWe Have Reached Peak VetBro Brand
Of course professional vetbro Patch Baker’s epiphany—that everyone needs to capitalize the V in veteran—came while he was writing an opinion column for Entrepreneur magazine titled “Building a Business...
View ArticleThe New U.S. Trade Deal Is Climate Sabotage
If this week is the “Super Bowl” of trade policy—as Republican Senator Rob Portman called it Wednesday—the planet won’t be getting a ring. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the Nafta...
View ArticleClemency Grapples With the Banal Evil of the Death Penalty
In a recent documentary, a member of the Border Patrol Union of El Paso, Texas, described separating the children of migrants from their families as “the most horrible thing I have ever done.” It was,...
View Article“Electability” Is a Poisonous Political Shibboleth
We are several days now into a spat between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—the Democratic primary’s two progressives who, as has been widely reported, have observed a pact of nonaggression against...
View ArticleThe Colonizer Always Comes Out
A soft piano tune twinkles in the background. The words “Coastal GasLink Pipeline Project” appear and then fade to white. Edward, a member of the Gitdumden clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and a...
View ArticleIs Joe Biden a Climate Radical Now?
Joe Biden may have stumbled into supporting one of the most radical climate proposals of the primary.The moment came in an interview, published Friday, with members of The New York Times’ Editorial...
View ArticleEducated Fools
Here’s a little thought experiment: What would happen if, by a snap of the fingers, white racism in America were to disappear? It might be that the black and Latino working class would be voting for...
View ArticleThe New York Times’ Endorsement Charade
The New York Times has created a spectacle around one of the stodgiest features of presidential primary season: the newspaper endorsement. In years past, the Times has simply splashed the name of the...
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