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How Wisconsin Became a Bastion of White Supremacy
On the night of October 23, 2004, Milwaukee police officer Andrew Spengler hosted a housewarming party. Katie Brown and Kirsten Antonissen brought two friends of their own: Frank Jude Jr., who is...
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How a Radical Black Tradition Could Buoy Biden in Michigan
In an expansive lot in northwest Detroit, at the corner of 6 Mile and San Juan, roughly 100 people gathered on a Sunday afternoon in August for a pair of events. The first was an “All Black Lives...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Protect Immigrants From the Whims of Politics
Unlike criminal or civil courts, our nation’s immigration courts are housed under the Department of Justice. And so the decisions and operations of these courts are subject to the whims of politics....
View ArticlePopulism Is the Key to Climate Action
Forty-nine percent of West Virginians are “worried” about global warming, and 64 percent think citizens should be doing more to address it. That’s in the state that’s least worried about climate...
View ArticleThe Right’s Farcical Denial of Systemic Racism
Lately, right-wingers have been on something of a tear denying the existence of “systemic racism.” Harvard government professor Harvey Mansfield, writing on the conservative Wall Street Journal op-ed...
View ArticleIs Donald Trump Dying?
To hear it from the president’s physicians, Donald Trump is probably the healthiest hospitalized Covid-19 patient in America. He may be on a regimen of heavy-duty drugs, but he is barely symptomatic....
View ArticleWould the GOP Use Trump’s Covid Diagnosis to Start a War?
One of the funniest responses to the president’s announcement that he had tested positive for the coronavirus was assuredly not meant to be laughed at. Florida Senator Marco Rubio issued a stern...
View ArticleHow the EPA Is Screwing Oklahoma’s Tribes
Jim Inhofe might be best known as the dipshit who brought a snowball to the floor of Congress as “proof” that climate change is not real. But the Republican senator from Oklahoma is no fool.In 2005,...
View ArticleThe Paradox of the Burmese Python
Samantha Smith first encountered PYBI029 in January 2019 after a farmer traced her tracks in the ash of a recently burned agricultural field on the outskirts of Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve, in Thailand....
View ArticleClaudia Rankine Has a Few Questions
In her newest book, Claudia Rankine takes on the oldest question in politics: How ought we to live together? Just Us completes Rankine’s trilogy of works on race in the United States, following Don’t...
View ArticleThe Religious Hijacking of the Supreme Court Doesn’t Require Amy Barrett
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has already drawn a substantial amount of scrutiny for her conservative religious beliefs and her potential willingness to overturn Roe v. Wade. An originalist...
View ArticleThe Barrett Confirmation Hearings Don’t Have to Be a Waste of Time
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett next week. I am not looking forward to them, and for reasons that have nothing to do with Barrett...
View ArticleWho Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Four years ago, I made the worst prediction of my professional life. No, not that Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump—though I was pretty confident of that, too. Instead, I wrote that Bob Dylan...
View ArticleExxonMobil Should Not Exist
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that multinational oil company ExxonMobil has recently planned to increase its carbon dioxide emissions 17 percent by 2025 while doubling its earnings. According to...
View ArticleTrump’s Gilded Age Coronavirus Care Is a National Shame
The nation surely breathed a sigh of relief last night, just as the president inhaled some very normal, deep, refreshing breaths, on the balcony of the White House, in front of television cameras—just...
View ArticleMelania Trump’s Charmed Pandemic Life
Last week, Melania Trump managed to avert a potential P.R. disaster by contracting Covid-19. On Thursday, CNN released audio secretly recorded by Melania’s former friend and adviser Stephanie Wolkoff,...
View ArticleImagining the Post-Trump Internet
On Monday, Trump declared victory in his battle with the coronavirus. By Tuesday, he had moved on, fighting the invisible enemy he apparently blames for keeping his (false) Covid-19 tweets from the...
View ArticleIs California Doomed to Keep Burning?
What will it take to save California? Around the world, fire season is growing increasingly severe and increasingly lethal. This year, wildfires have destroyed more than five million acres in the...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s Experimental Covid-19 Treatment Could Be Bad News for Everyone Else
Soon after President Trump spiked a fever, shares of Regeneron, a pharmaceutical company he has previously invested in, also shot up—along with interest in the company’s experimental Covid-19...
View ArticleOur President Is Literally Toxic
In 1978, Susan Sontag published a famous essay titled “Illness as Metaphor,” which argued against perceiving illness metaphorically. “Illness is not a metaphor,” Sontag wrote. “The most truthful way of...
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