The Mischiefs of Michael Bloomberg
At Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, five of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination spent the evening taking pointed shots at one another. But all five reserved a particular...
View ArticleThe Democrats Are Finally Brawling Over the Party’s Future
There have been several points over the course of this primary at which some pundits have taken issue with the tone of the discourse between the candidates. In the early debates, criticism of the Obama...
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Rachel Cusk Questions Everything
In August last year, the British estate agency the Modern House featured an interview with the author Rachel Cusk and her husband on its website. Accompanying the dreamy, washed-out photographs of...
View ArticleThe False Prophets of the Childcare Revolution
Business groups and executive types love to talk about the importance of childcare. A 2019 report from the Council for a Strong America’s ReadyNation initiative, a bipartisan coalition of over 2,000...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus’s Lesson for Climate Change
This week, analysis from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air estimated that government-directed quarantines and other restrictions due to the current coronavirus outbreak have temporarily...
View ArticleA Good Fight to Have About Medicare for All
Last week, the Las Vegas–based Culinary Union, Unite Here Local 226, found itself in the middle of a political fight after its leadership released a flyer singling out Bernie Sanders, saying that to...
View ArticleThe Radicalism of Warren’s Unapologetic Aggression
Mike Bloomberg has proposed to buy American votes with $400 million (and counting) in advertisements. Elizabeth Warren walked onto Wednesday’s debate stage proposing to buy American votes with the body...
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Finding Carson McCullers
“I have read enough biographies,” Jenn Shapland writes early in her new book, “to know, in no uncertain terms, that they are built of artifice and lies. I am not a fiction writer, and this is not a...
View ArticleThe Troubling Obsession With Political “Tribalism”
Since Donald Trump’s election, political commentators have bemoaned how polarized American politics has become—how angry, how uncivil, how tribal. A few years ago, NYU business professor Jonathan Haidt...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Silly Attempt to Boost a Liberal Candidate
Politico readers learned two interesting things this week. One: A prominent political scientist is making a novel argument that elections are won not by persuading swing-voting independents but by...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Is No Donald Trump
As a general rule, people do not compare other people to Donald Trump as a compliment. It is plainly rude to tell another person that you see even trace amounts of Trump in them, but more to the point...
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The Modern World Disappoints Ross Douthat
That the world is a mess is a proposition with which the left and the right can both agree. Conservatives look around and see a heathen culture degraded by “cultural Marxism” and the tyranny of social...
View ArticleLet the Boy Scouts Die Out, Already
I was an active Boy Scout as a teenager because I had strong motivation: getting myself the hell out of the Scouting movement. It was a cultural rite and a family thing, one I hated—but the rule was...
View ArticleTrump’s Ego Is Causing a National Security Nightmare
It can be difficult to discern what passes for thought in Donald Trump’s mind, but on the matter of Russian election interference he is refreshingly clear. He sees Russia’s attempts to help him win the...
View ArticleThere Are Worse Things to Fear Than an Electoral College Tie
On Thursday, Quinnipiac University released a series of polls on presidential head-to-head match-ups in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. President Donald Trump narrowly won all three of those...
View ArticleThe Police Knew Her. She Says They Still Didn’t Care She Was Raped.
Clarice Hardy couldn’t remember much about that night in March 2017, except that she felt “woozy” at the local bar where she had been hanging out. She didn’t know how she got home, just that she got...
View ArticleBeware a Bezos Bearing Gifts
Beyond a vaguely worded Instagram post, we don’t know much about how Jeff Bezos will spend the $10 billion he recently pledged to climate action through the Bezos Earth Fund. The richest man on the...
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A World to Win
J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph Stalin shared one passionately held belief: that “socialism” denoted the one-party dictatorship in Moscow and its satellites. The fact that this dictatorship would have been...
View ArticleTrump’s Xenophobia Could Create a Public Health Crisis
On Monday, after years of speculation, court injunctions, and false starts, the Trump administration will finally put into effect its so-called public charge rule. The new program, which was greenlit...
View ArticleThe Planet Is Screwed, Says Bank That Screwed the Planet
JP Morgan Chase is the world’s leading financer of fossil fuel projects. And according to a report from within the company, recently leaked to the press, the world is seriously underestimating the...
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