Adam Schiff and the End of Implausible Deniability
From time to time in the Trump era, Republican members of Congress have found themselves stricken with blindness, deafness, illiteracy, or some combination thereof. Their affliction tends to manifest...
View ArticleWhy Climate-Conscious Plutocrats Still Like Trump
For the first time in its history, the top five slots in the World Economic Forum’s annual survey of global risks all come from one category: the environment. As no shortage of marketing materials will...
View ArticleFootball Is the Villain in Aaron Hernandez’s True Crime Story
The story of Aaron Hernandez—money, fame, sex, murder—is sensational. Thus it should not surprise that the new documentary Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, which seeks to explain why this...
View ArticleWhy Tourism Should Die—and Why It Won’t
These aren’t easy days for travel touts. The class of journalists who enjoy comped experiences at Hawaiian resorts and Michelin-starred restaurants don’t normally generate a lot of public compassion....
View ArticleThe Sports World’s Blue-Collar Cosplay
Earlier this month, the New York Giants held a press conference to introduce their new head coach, Joe Judge. In between the usual football clichés about how the Giants will “play aggressive” and have...
View ArticleAmerica’s Climate Refugees Are Pleading for Help. The Government Has No Answer.
In December, as the remaining Democratic primary candidates participated in another one of the seemingly endless string of presidential debates, Senator Amy Klobuchar was asked about climate-forced...
View ArticleThe Best Defense of Donald Trump
President Donald Trump’s lawyers will start delivering their opening statement on Saturday. Their defenses of his actions are unlikely to be cogent or persuasive. The trial brief his team filed earlier...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Confounding Candidacy
A lunchtime town meeting in the college town of Ames, home to Iowa State, should attract a sizable crowd less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses—especially when a former vice president, who is...
View ArticleAre Kids Bad for the Planet?
Is it irresponsible to bring a child into a warming world? For some who are plagued by this question, the problem is the carbon footprint their offspring will leave. Others anguish about the...
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Beyond the Growth Gospel
The history of modern economic planning doubles as a resort travelogue. In 1947, the forefathers of neoliberalism launched their world-conquering project at the Hôtel Du Parc on Mont Pèlerin in the...
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The Limits of the Confessional Novel
Four women, all single mothers, are drinking wine together. As often happens when people sit in the same room sharing the same alcohol, they begin to exchange stories. Each woman chooses the pivotal...
View ArticleThe Enemies of Truth
In 2015, a nonprofit called the Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation created an annual prize to honor the legacy of the late Christopher Hitchens. As described by the foundation’s website, the Hitchens...
View ArticleJohn Bolton Has Run the Trump White House’s Greatest Scam
Anton Chekhov, the nineteenth-century Russian author, did not believe in red herrings. The metaphorical gun that bears his name is a reminder to writers that everything matters, or at least that...
View ArticleTo End Forever War, End the Dollar’s Global Dominance
Two days after a U.S. drone assassinated Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani outside the Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi parliament approved a nonbinding resolution to expel the American...
View ArticleThe Eternally Unvetted Bernie Sanders
As reliably as night follows day, Bernie Sanders’s Iowa surge has brought another round of lament from Washington’s elite political and media class that the new front-runner has not faced adequate...
View ArticleSelling the Green New Deal to Texas Unions
Texas’s 10th Congressional District stretches, improbably, from the outer fringes of the Houston metro area to suburbs west of Austin. After sending Democrats to Congress for over 100 years, it has...
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Larry Krasner’s Lonely, Radical Crusade to Solve America’s Gun Problem
This article was published in collaboration with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering guns in America.On August 14, Philadelphia police tried to serve a man named Maurice Hill with an arrest...
View ArticleCharles Murray Is Never Going Away
Two years ago, the atheist Sam Harris told Ezra Klein that Charles Murray was cancel culture’s patient zero. The co-author of 1994’s controversial The Bell Curve, which contained a chapter arguing that...
View ArticleBingeing on Cop Propaganda
Watching cop shows always requires a certain suspension of disbelief: the detective who, armed with a few vague details, sifts through tens of thousands of records in a matter of seconds to pinpoint a...
View ArticleTom Perez Stacks the DNC Deck Against Progressives
Ahead of the first major test for the Democratic presidential field next week in Iowa, Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez has selected his nominees for the 2020 Democratic National...
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