The New Republic Takes on Pack Journalism and the Media’s Obsession with...
NEW YORK — (March 19, 2020) — In the midst of the ongoing pandemic, The New Republic’s team of journalists is extensively covering the developments of the coronavirus’s spread and its impact on...
View ArticleOur Never-Ending Recession
For the last four decades, “the economy” has been less a measure of any kind of shared prosperity than a weathervane for the investment portfolios of the 1 percent. That was never clearer than during...
View ArticleThe Left Is Bigger Than Bernie Sanders
In the face of a pandemic that could kill more than a million Americans, overwhelm our health care system, and tank our economy, Democratic leadership in Congress has stood firm in one demand: Let’s...
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The Un-American
In late 2014, a young woman named Hoda Muthana slipped away from her Alabama home to travel to Syria as one more volunteer for the Islamic State. Over the ensuing years, her parents, Ahmed Ali and...
View ArticleThe Disunited States of America
There is cause for alarm. An epidemiological report from Imperial College London now guiding federal policy suggests as many as 2.2 million Americans could die if the authorities and public make little...
View ArticleThe Coronavirus Could Kill Millions. U.S.-Iran Hostilities Will Make It Worse.
Not long ago, just after the new year was rung in, Americans watched and worried as an exchange of rocket and missile attacks on Iraqi soil brought the United States and Iran to the brink of war. The...
View ArticleTrump Doesn’t Care About You
President Trump claimed last week that the coronavirus crisis had turned him into a “wartime president.” Over the weekend, he signaled that he might aid the enemy. “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN...
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Emily St. John Mandel’s Ghost World
Emily St. John Mandel has a knack for explosive openings. Her last novel, Station Eleven, begins during a production of King Lear, in the long moment it takes the lead actor to stutter, fall backward,...
View ArticleFear of an Invisible Threat
Since he could say the word, my son has been obsessed with the subject of microbes. At his insistence we have a library of children’s literature on the subject, books such as Meet Bacteria!, Inside...
View ArticleCoronavirus in a Time of Conspicuous Consumption
Rancho Gordo, a California-based seller of dried heirloom beans, reports that sales have quadrupled in the past few weeks. (A variety named Royal Corona remains its top seller, despite the name.) As...
View ArticleAmerica’s Diseased Politics
Last Wednesday, with a pandemic spiking and the economy plummeting, Senator Charles Schumer finally lost his cool and dispensed with syntactic best practices in the name of urgency. In outlining the...
View ArticleTucker Carlson Is Leading the White House’s Coronavirus Response
As the coronavirus spread across the world, Fox News became the epicenter of disinformation about the crisis. Jeanine Pirro dismissed the virus as less deadly than the flu. Sean Hannity and Laura...
View ArticleCould Trump Spark a New Balkan Ethnic War?
As it struggles to manage the coronavirus crisis, the White House has begun casting around for policy victories that could fortify President Trump’s reelection chances. It has set its sights on a...
View ArticleScenes From an American Pandemic
Things change quickly in a pandemic. I started interviewing people for this piece a little more than a week ago as a way to capture this moment for people on both sides of our health care crisis—a...
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The Imitation Games That Authoritarians Play
In their book The Light That Failed, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes tell a story that they attribute to Gleb Pavlovsky. He is a Russian “political technologist” who aided both Boris Yeltsin and...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Economy in American Prisons
On Sunday afternoon, 45 people incarcerated at Rikers Island released a statement declaring that they would not be leaving their rooms for work or meals due to the jail’s inadequate response to the...
View ArticleWe Can Save Lives and the Economy at the Same Time
With the mayor of America’s largest city desperately warning the new coronavirus pandemic is on the verge of overwhelming the local hospital system, leading to deaths from untreated illness, you might...
View ArticleJoe Biden Pivots to Video
At his debate with Bernie Sanders earlier this month, which was roughly an eternity and a half ago in news time, Joe Biden repeatedly stressed the need for leadership on the coronavirus crisis while...
View ArticleThe Republican Plot to Save the Rich
The first confirmed case of a coronavirus infection in the United States was announced on January 21. Two days later, with the World Health Organization recording 581 confirmed cases worldwide, the...
View ArticleHistory Won’t Save Us
History will judge Donald Trump harshly. That, at any rate, is what many of his critics predict. No less harsh, in this prediction, will be history’s judgment of those who abetted Trump’s evils, who...
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