Trump’s Plan to Let Big Banks Get a Piece of the Stadium Scam
In an age when banks like Wells Fargo actively scam poor people and are gifted multibillion tax breaks many times the size of whatever penalties they may face, it stands to reason that they don’t need...
View ArticleThe Truth Is, Donald Trump Wants No Part of This
A recurring theory is that President Donald Trump wants to be impeached, or that he is at least eager for the political brawl it represents. The New York Times’ Ross Douthat mused in September that...
View ArticleHow the Democrats Blew Trump’s Impeachment
Throughout the day Wednesday, the impeachment of President Trump was compared variously by Republicans to the Salem Witch Trials, Pearl Harbor, and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. As of 4 p.m., 9/11...
View ArticleFacebook Is a Right-Wing Company, Part One Million
Peter Thiel is Big Tech’s most prominent Trump supporter. He is an unabashed enemy of the free press, having covertly funded a lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker three years ago. He has become one of the...
View ArticlePresident* Donald Trump
The House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on Wednesday. For most of the members of the House who were there, it will likely be...
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A Unified Theory of the Trumps’ Creepy Aesthetic
From one day to the next, the Trump presidency unfolds more or less like a normal Republican presidency—that is, by committing one determined act of rote negligence or flamboyant cruelty at a time,...
View ArticleTom Perez’s Preposterous Debate Rules
“I do think that the debate rules have been deeply destructive to the field and to my campaign. It has made it hard to raise money because people view the debates as sort of a proxy for success.” The...
View ArticleFast Fashion at the End of the World
I cannot talk about fashion without talking about the end of the world. For a long time I argued that fashion was political; now I argue that fashion is apocalyptic. Today, the industry that produces...
View ArticleDon’t Withhold the Articles of Impeachment
The House of Representatives took a historic step this week by approving two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Now the House’s leaders are mulling an unprecedented next step:...
View ArticleClimate Change Displacement Is Not Hypothetical
When climate change is discussed, especially in the political sphere, it doesn’t take long for the word “existential” to start getting tossed around. This tends to frame the matter in the far-off...
View ArticleThe Tangled Politics of Bombshell
Within its first 15 minutes, Bombshell, Jay Roach’s new film about the downfall of Roger Ailes, asks us to believe something incredible: that Megyn Kelly (played by Charlize Theron) cares about the...
View ArticleThe End of the Ideas Primary
The first mention of health care came about two hours into Thursday night’s Democratic primary debate, the last such encounter until 2020. This was a departure from previous debates, in which questions...
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A Decade of Liberal Delusion and Failure
Welcome to The Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.As 2009 ended, the editors of this magazine...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Vaudeville Act
In the predawn darkness after a presidential debate, the glib certainties of the previous night become tangled with the wisps of forgotten dreams. This sleep-aided loss of clarity serves as a reminder...
View ArticleThe People vs. Richard Jewell
It’s my own fault that I could not, until recently, recall the name of the person who planted a bomb in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics; it’s also my own fault that I couldn’t say whether that case...
View ArticleCould America’s Founders Have Imagined This?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday invoked the nation’s birth in defending her decision to delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate. “Our Founders, when they wrote the Constitution, they...
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The Hell That Was Health Care Reform
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.In 2007, the next president of the United...
View ArticleRupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade
Rupi Kaur has published two books: 2015’s Milk and Honey, 2017’s The Sun and Her Flowers. Her epigrammatic verse is spare, the offspring of classical aphorism (if you’re feeling generous) and the...
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The Collapse of Neoliberalism
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.With the 2008 financial crash and the Great...
View ArticleBoeing Axes CEO as Company Hits New Heights of Self-Denial
Merry Christmas, Boeing shareholders: Your lame-duck CEO Dennis Muilenburg has been put out of his lucrative misery, to be replaced by board chairman David Calhoun, late of the glorious institutions...
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