Scott Pruitt Was Even More Selfish and Vengeful Than We Thought
When former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned in July 2018 amid a flurry of ethics scandals, he had already weathered months of inquiries into inappropriate use of the...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Familiar, Troubling Plan to Torpedo Biden’s Presidency
Like a phoenix, the deficit hawk will be back soon enough, as soon as it is politically convenient.—Glenn Kessler, Washington Post fact-checker, October 17, 2020My party is very interested in deficits...
View ArticleBob Murray Was Vicious to Both Workers and the Environment
Fossil fuel interests have long argued that environmental rules kill jobs. Not having such rules, though, kills people. And that’s particularly clear when it comes to the coal industry.Bob Murray, the...
View ArticleBlue States Suppress the Vote, Too
Standing in front of a gaggle of press on a New York City sidewalk, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez assessed the situation playing out during the city’s first three days of early voting in the...
View ArticleAmy Coney Barrett Will Upend American Life as We Know It
There was never much doubt that the Republican-led Senate would confirm Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. In the immediate wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last month, some...
View ArticleThe Ballot Initiative That Could Change How You Think About Defunding the Police
Something shifted in the weeks following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, or at least it felt that way. Calls to defund the police rang out in protests across the country and...
View ArticleCan a Black Novelist Write Autofiction?
Quick: What names come to mind when you hear the term “autofiction”? Let me guess, you’re probably thinking about Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ben Lerner, and Sheila Heti, among a few others. I’ve...
View ArticleWill The Wall Street Journal Be Destroyed by its Opinion Section?
Last week, amid a torrent of bad press, President Trump teased one story as a game-changer. “The Wall Street Journal is working on a very, very important piece, which should be very good,” he said on a...
View ArticleWe Can’t Trust Cops to Protect the Polls
Police are struggling “to protect voters and avoid intimidation at the polls,” The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, by which they meant that at least some of the law enforcement officers they spoke...
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How Don Jr. Became the Future of Trumpism
It is someone’s birthday, and everybody is dressed up. At the business end of an expansive buffet, an exhausted lump of beef perspires as if under great duress beneath a heat lamp; a man in a chef’s...
View ArticleGrassroots Democrats Are Preparing to Swarm the Biden Administration
For the last few months, a team on Joe Biden’s campaign has been drawing up plans for the transition, compiling lists, and vetting potential appointees. Meanwhile, a network of left-wing organizers,...
View ArticleThe Whole World Is on the Ballot
Every morning, I wake up to the sound of a new nail thudding into the coffin of yet another institution of U.S. democracy. From the craven and brazen police violence this summer, to the sitting...
View ArticleBrett Kavanaugh Will Have His Revenge on America
Two years ago, Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend himself against allegations of sexual misconduct. He lashed out at Democrats, left-wing activists, and...
View ArticleThis Presidency Is Bad for Your Health
It’s a cliché at this point, but imagine being told 10 years ago that the final weeks of the 2020 election campaign would feature President Donald Trump telling enthusiastic supporters at campaign...
View ArticleCar Companies Have Been Knowingly Screwing the Planet for Half a Century
At this point, you have to wonder which heavily polluting industries didn’t know about climate change half a century ago. This week, E&E News published a months-long investigation showing that Ford...
View ArticleGetting Out the Vote in the Maze of Mass Incarceration
For the people trying to get out the vote in jails across the United States, there are no doors to knock, no sidewalks to canvass from. The people they are trying to reach may not even know they have...
View ArticlePandemic Fatigue Is Just Exhaustion in the Face of a Failed State
The coronavirus is once again on the rise in the United States, but panic over the recent record surge in infections and hospitalizations is another thing entirely. Pandemic fatigue, The Wall Street...
View ArticleBeltway Lobbyists Are Clutching Their Pearls Over Biden’s Ethics Reforms
If the polls are any guide, then change could soon be afoot in Washington, D.C., in the form of an incoming Biden administration tasked with the challenge of rebooting an administrative state that’s...
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The Myths Fueling Today’s Armed Right
The 13 men charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer called themselves the Wolverine Watchmen, a possible reference to the white supremacist vigilante militia in the HBO series...
View ArticleA Mission to Expose Far-Right Hate
There is a long and noble tradition in this country of journalists going undercover to expose the far right. More than a century ago, Walter White—a Black man so light-skinned he could easily pass for...
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