Donald Trump Doesn’t Have a Second Act
Here we finally are—on the cusp of what, after many false alarms, really might be the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s presidency. But given ample reasons to remain uneasy about what will happen...
View ArticleWhat Will the Lincoln Project Do After Trump?
The Lincoln Project is betting that anti-Trumpism can outlast Donald Trump’s presidency. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the group of ad-making former Republicans “is weighing offers from different...
View ArticleAre You Fracking Kidding Me, Trump?
Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, is mulling an executive order to make federal agencies perform an economic analysis of fracking—on the theory, presumably, that there’s no...
View ArticleDon’t Let Miles Taylor Get Away With Being a Fraud
The last four years have provided us with a number of tantalizing mysteries. Just how many Melania Trumps are there? Who was White House Covid-19 patient zero? What, exactly, is going on with George...
View ArticleThe Deradicalization of Supreme Court Reform
For most of the last 80 years, court-packing was a historical footnote for high-school students who learned about the New Deal era. The idea that the Supreme Court, still clinging to the glow of its...
View ArticleElection Season Is Wildfire Season. These Voters Lost Everything.
For 13 years, Erica Ramírez lived with her children in a house in Medford, Oregon, a small city in the southwestern corner of the state. It was a modest two-bedroom, painted blue with white accents....
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Celia Paul Redefines the Artist’s Model
A woman sprawls on a bed, the suggestion of a wall behind her. With her left hand, she cups her left breast, while the right falls free. Her eyes are turned toward the pillow. Her strong thighs don’t...
View ArticleWill Airbnb Do to Small Towns What It Did to New York and Barcelona?
In August, despite a global pandemic that had caused a nosedive in travel revenue, Airbnb filed initial public offering paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In an interview with CNBC,...
View ArticleBiden’s Health Care Plan Is Somehow Still a Mystery
Here is a disclaimer for any omnipotent force that is reading this post: By writing about what might happen under a Biden presidency, I am in no way predicting the results of Tuesday’s election. I am...
View ArticleHow the Stock Market Betrayed Donald Trump
There’s gratitude for you. You halve corporate taxes and slash regulations indiscriminately, and Wall Street thanks you by going haywire less than a week before you’re up for reelection.“Stock market...
View ArticleWho Gets Included in “the American People”?
It’s one of the most lumbering clichés of American politics. “The American people,” politicians intone, are hurting, tired, angry, or “bitterly divided.” Yet when this election is finished, they will...
View ArticleThe Quiet Suppression of Trans Voters
Voter intimidation is not always easy to identify or to document, something voting rights advocates have emphasized this year. “It is often subtle or context-dependent,” as a fact sheet from Georgetown...
View ArticleTen Moves, Two Tents, and Five Months of a Housing Reckoning in Minneapolis
Nadine Little needed to charge her phone. The afternoon sun was high and bright in South Minneapolis as she headed west, past the rubble and ash of the buildings that had burned just days earlier,...
View ArticleA Republican Oilman Is Running for Texas’s Top Oil-Regulation Seat
In recent weeks, Texas—long considered reliably red—has become a toss-up in the presidential race. That has interesting implications for one of the most important and under-covered climate races in the...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald Throws a Fit
It takes a special kind of gall to quit a six-figure media job in the doomed year of 2020. But that’s just what Glenn Greenwald has done, following in the martyred footsteps of erstwhile New York Times...
View ArticleThe Elusive Dream of a Functioning Native Caucus
Rudy Soto, a Shosone-Bannock citizen running for a House seat for Idaho’s First District, had to remind me of something that can be surprisingly easy to forget: There is, technically, already a Native...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Case for the Two-Day Workweek
It’s not like you really need data to confirm that things are bad right now—being alive and awake should take care of that—but the latest reports do support the general thesis: Coronavirus infections...
View ArticleLibertarian vs. Bear
In the early 2000s, a group of libertarians moved to a small town in New Hampshire, where they set about slashing the municipal budget. The newcomers wanted to be free from taxes and government...
View ArticleIs Biden Ready for a Helter-Skelter Presidential Transition?
God willing, we will know who our next president is sometime late Tuesday night and it will be Joe Biden. It’s of course possible that Donald Trump may refuse to concede and try to get the 6–3...
View ArticleIs Fox News Ready for Former President Trump?
Rupert Murdoch may be “resigned” to a Trump loss, according to a recent Washington Post report, but he needn’t fret about the future of his media empire. No matter who emerges victorious on Tuesday,...
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