Kristi Noem’s War on Tribal Sovereignty Is Going to Get People Killed
South Dakota currently ranks second in the nation for Covid-19 cases, and first in hospitalizations. On Saturday, the state reported its highest daily death total of the year. Yet, as of writing,...
View ArticleCharles Koch Got the Free-Market Dystopia He Wanted. Now He’d Like Your...
Billionaire Charles Koch—who, alongside his late brother, is best known for funding a host of conservative and libertarian think tanks, donating lavishly to Republicans, and otherwise flooding the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Versus the Coronavirus
Among the major issues that the Supreme Court could weigh in on over the next few months is the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly a quarter-million Americans since March and now rages...
View ArticleThe Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Put Japan’s Climate Policy in a Decade-Long...
The Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in Okuma, Japan, on March 11, 2011, was one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Some of the impacts can be easily quantified: 150,000 people were evacuated due to...
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The Littlest Prince
Donald Trump’s presidency could only ever have ended one way, but there was still a certain flubby majesty to how it happened. As the outcome of the election became clearer and more irrefutable—as the...
View ArticleBarack Obama, Media Critic
As his feud with Fox News has intensified—and as his pathetic attempt to overturn a legitimate election becomes more harebrained—Donald Trump has drifted further and further into the fringes. Newsmax...
View ArticleBanal Smartphone Apps Are the New Surveillance State
In 2012, Factual, a Los Angeles–based technology company, had world-conquering ambitions. Intoxicated by the utopian rhetoric surrounding the growing field of big data, it planned to collect...
View ArticleScott Atlas, Star Disciple in Trump’s Covid Death Cult
On Sunday, as Covid-19 cases in Michigan surged, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a new set of temporary restrictions on certain indoor gatherings and activities. The three-week pandemic order will...
View ArticleTranscript: Joe Biden’s Cabinet
A transcript of Episode 20 of The Politics of Everything, “Fantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet.” Alex Pareene: I’m Alex Pareene. I’m a staff writer at The New Republic.Laura Marsh: And I’m Laura...
View ArticleFantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet
Who should President-elect Biden ask to join his Cabinet? Everyone has an opinion, and most of the opinions are terrible. On Episode 20 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene...
View ArticleAn FDR-Size Executive Order for Biden
During his run for office, President-elect Joe Biden let out that he was aspiring to have an “FDR-size presidency.” But now that the dust has settled on the election, the Democrats’ failure to retake...
View ArticleThe Unpardonable Sins of Lindsey Graham
Some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill still aren’t quite willing to admit what was already obvious: President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. “You’re going to play gotcha...
View ArticleWhen the Protagonist Is a Literal Man-Eater
The rendered fat of dead animals may seem like an unlikely aphrodisiac, but the scent adheres to a certain erotic memory for Dorothy Daniels, the narrator of Chelsea G. Summers’s new novel, A Certain...
View ArticleJoe Biden Can’t Compromise With the Rising Seas
Climate activists got bad news on Monday, when word trickled out that Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond—among the top Democratic recipients of fossil fuel money in the House—had been tapped to lead...
View ArticleHayao Miyazaki’s Viral Stories
I may not have written my King Lear during the pandemic, but I certainly have told a lot of stories. This is because I spend my days minding a six-year-old. Since we have nothing else to do but...
View ArticleWhy We Can’t Comprehend 250,000 Covid Deaths
We have so many numbers to describe how awful things are. Since February, the United States has conducted 170,315,721 Covid-19 tests, identified 11,603,800 cases, and tallied 250,300 deaths. In April,...
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What Now?
The euphoria from Joe Biden’s long-count victory is like the last leaf clinging to a late-autumn tree. Before that stubborn final leaf withers on the branch, here is a hopeful—yet realistic—scenario...
View ArticleBarack Obama Doesn’t Have the Answers
What are we supposed to do with Barack Obama? He’s said at least twice over the course of the publicity tour for his new presidential memoir, A Promised Land, that his ideal reader is a young person....
View ArticleEnding the Forever Wars, by Any Means Necessary
President Trump’s decision-making is defined by, if anything, incoherence. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that, in addition to golfing and undermining the election results, he is spending his last days...
View ArticleCan the Media Break Its Trump Addiction?
A week and a half ago, a spell seemed to break: Donald Trump began profusely lying on live television, and several networks cut the feed. It was treated as a minor miracle, proof not only that the...
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