The Ascension of Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a video of herself titled “Marjorie Greene Confronts David Hogg” to YouTube on January 21, 2020, shot the year before. In it, she follows the Parkland shooting survivor...
View ArticleFree the Covid Vaccine Patents
President Joe Biden made the Defense Production Act (DPA) a key part of his campaign coronavirus platform. He began calling for the act to be invoked to boost mask production in March 2020. On his...
View ArticleEveryone Wins If the Republicans Banish Marjorie Taylor Greene—Including Her
The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on whether to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene, a freshman Republican lawmaker from Georgia, from her committee assignments. Steny Hoyer, the number-two...
View ArticleThe Human Factor Tallies the What Ifs of Israel-Palestine Peace Talks
The what-ifs of history are both tantalizing and tragic—and nowhere is this more true than when it comes to the impasse between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What if x hadn’t done y? And what if z...
View ArticleTrump’s Final Defense of His Presidency May Be His Most Deranged
Just over a month ago, rioters and insurrectionists attacked the Capitol and killed five people. They traipsed through the House and Senate chambers, taking photographs of themselves and rifling...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Screwing Up Trump’s Impeachment Trial
When the second and final impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump begins Tuesday, Lewis Carroll may prove a better guide to unraveling the proceedings than the squads of legal experts in boxes on cable...
View ArticleThe Justice Department Is Way Too White
As Republicans continue to obstruct Merrick Garland’s nomination to serve as Joe Biden’s attorney general, it has been easy to forget that scores of Justice Department positions remain filled by acting...
View ArticleThe Alabama Town That Could Defeat Jeff Bezos
Some 5,800 people who work at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, a town just outside of Birmingham, will receive union ballots on Monday. They have until March 29 to decide whether they want to...
View ArticleCan There Ever Be a Working-Class Republican Party?
“We are a working-class party now,” Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted at 10:53 p.m. Eastern time on election night in November. “That’s the future.” A few minutes later, Fox called...
View ArticleTesla’s Bitcoin Buy Is a Reckless, Destructive Troll
For the Bitcoin faithful, February 8 may be remembered as a holy day—and for the Securities and Exchange Commission, it may be another reason to investigate the professional troll and Tesla CEO Elon...
View ArticleThe Colorado River Crisis Is a National Crisis
The Colorado River supports over 40 million people spread across seven southwestern states, 29 tribal nations, and Mexico. It’s responsible for the irrigation of roughly 5.5 million acres of land...
View ArticleGeorge Shultz, the Godfather of the Discredited Laffer Curve
Former Secretary of State George Shultz died over the weekend at age 100. He received many accolades for being one of the last sane Republicans. Shultz was from the Eisenhower era of Republican...
View ArticleThe Historical Revisionism of Trump’s Impeachment Defense
Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial begins on Tuesday, and both of the legal teams have now filed their final briefs before the main event. Managers from the House of Representatives, who will...
View ArticleDon’t Believe the Bad Press About the Economic Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage
The reviews for a $15 hourly minimum wage are in, and they’re brutal. “Biden’s $15 Wage Bid Hits Headwind,” says Bloomberg. “Don’t Expect a $15 Minimum Wage: Goldman Sachs,” warns Yahoo!Money. “Raising...
View ArticleThe Unheroic Life of Stan Lee
A nerdy slacker is hanging around the mall, having been dumped by his girlfriend earlier that day. He is staring in the window of a lingerie store, when a sharply dressed older guy with gray hair and...
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The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem
In the dark recesses of the internet lurks a man who goes by ToxicCisWhiteMaleFat. He makes his home on onaforums.net, a community named after the shock jock duo Opie & Anthony—a safe space to say...
View ArticleOverworked, Underpaid, and Cutting Corners: The Crisis in Home Health Care
A few years ago, Stella started working as a nursing assistant at Almost Family in Chilton, Wisconsin. She liked the job at first—the hours were flexible, and she had a good connection with her...
View ArticleCan We Stop Obsessing Over Every Personnel Decision Made by The New York Times?
Who edits The New York Times? This is not, at least at first glance, a particularly complicated question. Dean Baquet has been the executive editor of the newspaper of record since 2014, a period of...
View ArticleThe Worst Impeachment Defense in American History
If you tuned in to the first day of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, you saw the process at its worst and its best. Tuesday’s proceedings were devoted to resolving the question of whether it...
View ArticleModerate Democrats’ Cruel Calculus on Who Deserves Stimulus Relief
Late last week, as Thursday turned into Friday, the Senate took the first major step toward passing the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package through budget reconciliation,...
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