To 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 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 ArticleBinging 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...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Make Virginia Whole Again
Impeachment proceedings may have dominated the headlines so far this week, but the nation’s capital isn’t the only place where rarely used portions of the Constitution are getting new attention. Over...
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Laos’s Forgotten War
Though I hate to admit my own ignorance, I will: I only just learned about the Plain of Jars, a series of more than 90 archeological sites in Laos, containing hundreds of stone vessels dating from the...
View ArticleThere’s Nothing More American Than Native Mascots
On Sunday, tens of millions of Americans will tune in to Super Bowl LIV to watch Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs try to crack the nut that is the San Francisco 49ers defense. After the...
View ArticleJohn Bolton Is Trying to Make a Buck. So Is Everyone Else in Washington.
There is good reason to think that John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, is in it for the money. Bolton has spent the last several months playing footsie with Congress, teasing...
View ArticleA Better Way to Stop Coronaviruses
It’s not known yet how, exactly, the current coronavirus outbreak got started. The viral pneumonia, called 2019-nCoV for now, belongs to the virus family that also gave birth to SARS and MERS. As with...
View ArticleHow Medicare for All Could Help Fight Pandemics
Consider the life of someone with the misfortune of contracting coronavirus in the United States. Let’s call her Mary, and let’s say she works at an airport as a baggage agent, helping travelers locate...
View ArticleThe Impeachment Trial Isn’t a Legal Process. It’s a Proxy War.
The impeachment trial of President Trump has been short on drama. The rules that govern the proceedings effectively preclude it—senators observing the trial sit testily, but quietly, through...
View ArticleAlan Dershowitz to Senators: L’état, C’est Trump
For the Senate’s first day of questioning on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s legal team tapped Patrick Philbin to answer most of the questions. Philbin, a deputy White House counsel, largely gave...
View ArticleThe New Majority Behind Sex Work Decriminalization
When people have a real chance to say what kind of world they want, they tend to tell similar stories: safety for themselves and their families, dignified work, health care. Viewed this way, there is...
View ArticleThe Lies We Tell About Soldiers’ Traumatic Brain Injuries
The weekend before last, I went ice-fishing on “The Big Water,” Lake Superior, with my dog, and as I was dragging my sled back to the truck, I could feel my body starting to fail. Off the ice, mowing...
View ArticleThe Panic of the Never Trumpers
All eyes will be on Iowa this Monday as voters cluster in school gymnasiums and churches around the state to kick off the months-long process of selecting a Democratic nominee for president. According...
View ArticleTrump’s War Whisperer
In the immediate aftermath of the January drone strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, the person who explained President Donald Trump’s military strategy to the public was not...
View ArticleDemocratic Hawks Declare War on Bernie Sanders
The first openly anti–Bernie Sanders attack ad of the Democratic primary campaign is now airing across Iowa, thanks to a $680,000 ad buy from the PAC arm of Democratic Majority for Israel, a group...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Teachers Are Flirting With a Strike
Growing up in North Carolina, I didn’t know anyone in a union. And it wasn’t until a few years ago, as I became involved in my own union as a journalist, that I learned my home state bans public-sector...
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