Trump Is Still the President, and the Pandemic Is Getting Worse
The election of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States heralds a massive change in the U.S. approach to controlling the coronavirus pandemic—a shift from a president who has...
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A Weeklong Election, in Pictures
Most of America spent this week at home watching the events of this drawn-out election play out on their screens. But the anxiety, the anger, the joy, and the relief of this week didn’t take place...
View ArticleHow Biden Can Beat Covid-19
In many ways, Decision 2020 came down to the pandemic. Vice President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris made coronavirus control a central part of their message to voters. “I’m not going to shut down the...
View ArticleAlaska Offers Biden the Slimmest of Hopes for a Democratic Senate
As the 2020 election finally unwinds, Democrats seeking a majority in the Senate have turned their eyes south, to the two pending runoff votes in Georgia, which could produce an even 50–50 split in the...
View ArticleIn The Undoing, a Grisly Murder Rocks High Society Manhattan
Everybody loves to watch “smug marrieds”—to borrow Bridget Jones’s phrase—fall apart, and if they’re rich, then all the better. That lust for schadenfreude is what sells tabloid stories about celebrity...
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How to De-Trumpify the Justice Department
In late August, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced that it had issued requests to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan concerning their handling of the coronavirus in...
View ArticleThe Left Must Hit the Streets Again—Right Now
Enough about Donald Trump: The opportunity to plan beyond him is among the most important privileges the Democratic Party and the country won last week. Unless Democrats sweep the Georgia runoffs in...
View ArticleThe Democrats Will Suffer if They Abandon the Green New Deal
Did Joe Biden’s much-publicized suggestion that he wanted to “transition” off fossil fuels during a presidential debate cost him the election? Evidently not. Biden is projected to flip Pennsylvania...
View ArticleConsider the Bootlicker
The Trump era is not yet over, and the Biden administration has not yet begun. There are still another two months for horrible things to continue to happen and then another four years for, hopefully,...
View ArticleTrump’s New Self-Care Routine: Filing Sad Lawsuits
President Trump does not believe in the legitimacy of the electoral process unless he wins—and sometimes, not even then. In 2016, he complained after the Iowa caucuses that “either a new election...
View ArticleThere’s a Lot We Don’t Know About the Promising Covid Vaccine
Pfizer and BioNTech, a German biotechnology company, announced Monday that their coronavirus vaccine may be 90 percent effective at preventing Covid-19, according to early results. Although experts...
View ArticleIvanka in Exile
What now, for Ivanka Trump? Since publishing her unpleasant-to-pronounce self-help book, Women Who Work, in 2017 and closing her poorly performing personal fashion line in 2018, the favorite first...
View ArticleHow the World Gave Up on the Stateless
For almost a decade, Josef Ben-David was stateless. The son of a Jewish elementary school teacher in Czarist Russia, he hated his native country, where prevalent antisemitism made his life impossible....
View ArticlePostelection Misinformation and Massacre Threats on Conservatives’ Favorite...
If you want to understand the state of social media, take a look at a Twitter account called @FacebooksTop10. Maintained by New York Times journalist Kevin Roose, the account tweets a daily list of the...
View ArticleWhy Are Democrats Shielding Republican Liars?
Speaking with CNN on Tuesday morning, Democratic Senator Chris Coons danced a tired routine. As the interview turned toward the refusal by Republican congressional leaders to refute the lame-duck...
View ArticleThe Media Is Already Rehabilitating the GOP—and Walking America Into a Trap
On Monday, as White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany delivered a baseless rant about voter fraud to reporters and the American public, Fox News host Neil Cavuto decided to pull the plug. “Unless...
View ArticleThe Agenda Is Still Survival
At the start of the week, as the Trump coup attempt cranked into gear, there was yet another entry in the Democratic Party’s continued identity crisis. In dueling interviews with The New York Times,...
View ArticleModerate Democrats Can Call the Green New Deal Whatever They Want
During a recent Axios on HBO interview, Jon Ossoff, the perpetual Democratic candidate who faces Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue in a January runoff election, was asked whether he supports a...
View ArticleThe Media Finally Figured Out Trump. Now Do the GOP.
Republican officials across the country are backing Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of a lawful and legitimate election. They are questioning vote counts at the state level, while...
View ArticleThis Is (Probably) Not a Coup D’État
No one should feel ashamed for being worried about the state of America’s electoral democracy right now. This weekend, candidate Joe Biden became President-elect Joe Biden after securing the Electoral...
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