How Political Fact-Checkers Distort the Truth
At the June 28 Democratic presidential debate, Senator Bernie Sanders said, “Three people [in this country] own more wealth than the bottom half of America.” And Glenn Kessler, who leads The Washington...
View ArticleAmerica Has Never Cared About Sacred Sites
This past weekend, President Trump repeatedly threatened to target Iranian cultural sites should Iran respond to his administration’s assassination of Qassem Soleimani. (And on Tuesday, Iran did just...
View ArticleA Better Health Care Debate Is Possible
Presidential debates are not held for the purpose of informing the public about the candidates running for president and their views. They are television shows, designed to do what other television...
View ArticleGive Kids the Money From Carbon Taxes
Children’s increasing prominence in efforts to slow climate change has provoked mixed reactions. Many, myself included, laud recent Time Person of the Year Greta Thunberg and her fellow youth activists...
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Alice Adams’s Afterlife
It’s just one of the tough truths of being an artist that you can publish 17 books and dozens of short stories—in both the big commercial magazines and the beloved literary journals—and wind up, two...
View ArticleThe Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran
Last Friday, a day after Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and nine others were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, the Christian Zionist advocacy group Christians United for Israel emailed its...
View ArticleThe New Republic’s First Issue of 2020 Profiles Joe Biden in His Last Bid for...
New York, NY — (January 6, 2020) — In The New Republic’s January/February 2020 cover story “A Man in Full,” veteran political reporter Walter Shapiro uses his decades of insight to reflect on the...
View ArticleThe Ulterior Motives of the Anti-War Right
Wednesday’s classified Hill briefing on the assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani seems to have gone poorly for the White House. According to Republican Senator Mike Lee, Trump...
View ArticleHow Far Will the Roberts Court Go to Protect Shadowy Political Donors?
The Supreme Court returns on Friday for the justices’ first conference of the new year. Two of the cases they’ll consider taking up are strange challenges to a California law aimed at preventing fraud...
View ArticleTrump Finds a New Way to Lick the Boot of the Fossil Fuel Industry
On Thursday, the Trump administration revealed its long-touted updates to the National Environmental Policy Act, the Nixon-era law that requires federal agencies to consider environmental and community...
View ArticleWhy Tucker Carlson Is Obsessed With Trash
Last month, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson devoted a portion of his nightly white nationalist variety show to litter. Not because Carlson is an environmentalist, or cares about civic pride or public health....
View ArticleCash Bail Was Never About Safety
The slow work of criminal justice reform is often piecemeal, a matter of politicizing the system’s routine practices and developing a moral language to undo them. Bail has become one of those issues,...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Crook in America
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan repeatedly steered state transportation development money to projects that would increase the value of his real estate holdings, according to a lengthy investigation by...
View ArticleBefore the U.S. Bombed Soleimani’s Terrorists, It Bribed Them
On January 3, shortly after killing Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah commander Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis with a drone strike, the United States also reportedly targeted Shubul Al...
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Culture War in the Workplace
The proceedings began with three fast, muted raps on the door. Layleen Cubilette-Polanco’s family and friends, joined by many, many people who’d never even met her, filled every row in the small,...
View ArticleThe Billionaire Grifter’s Threat to Democracy
Remember how 2018 was the year of the grifter? We were inundated with juicy stories of amazing con artists, from Anna Delvey’s rich girl scam to Elizabeth Holmes’s other rich girl scam. The summer of...
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How Crystal Eastman Fought for Equality
Who gets remembered, who gets lionized, in the history of leftist politics? Amy Aronson’s new biography of the feminist socialist reformer Crystal Eastman—the first full-length treatment of her...
View ArticleThe NFL Owners’ Unyielding Commitment to White Coaches
The Rooney Rule, a policy that requires any team in the National Football League to interview at least one diverse candidate for any open head coach or senior executive position, was introduced in...
View ArticleWhy Climate Denial Survives While Australia Burns
In April last year, 22 former fire and emergency chiefs from across Australia issued a statement just before a federal election, calling on Australia’s two major political parties—one of them likely to...
View ArticleToward a Working-Class Anti-War Movement
On the eve of what was ludicrously called Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was a teenager in Boise, Idaho, protesting in front of the state Capitol with the Idaho Green Party, a scattering of mostly Gen X...
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