How the Democratic Party Can Create a Majoritarian Coalition
The Saturday afternoon following Election Day 2020 felt like a holiday Democratic voters feared would never happen. In cities across the country, interracial crowds, united in masked joy, rushed out of...
View ArticleTrump’s Guilt Is Far Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Watching the House managers present their case in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial reminded me less of an actual criminal trial and more of the conclusion of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. In the...
View ArticleFire Louis DeJoy
If you’ve sent or received any mail over the last few months, you may have noticed that the United States Postal Service is not in great shape. After Louis DeJoy, a Republican fundraiser, took over as...
View ArticleCancel Valentine’s Day Consumerism
Back in the early 1990s, Baptist pastor Gary Chapman released a book about human relationships. In its first year, the book barely made a splash, but the following year sales doubled. The year after...
View ArticleMitt Romney’s Party of One
Little has changed in the year or so spanning the two impeachments of Donald Trump. His second trial, which began Tuesday, will likely be swiftly decided, this time to spare legislative bandwidth...
View ArticleThe Darker Story Just Outside the Lens of Framing Britney Spears
Britney Spears can’t spend her own money without permission or decide where she lives. She doesn’t have the right to choose who she spends time with, and can’t enter into contracts. Despite being an...
View ArticleDeath to the Inspirational News Story
Earlier this month, Alondra Carmona, a high school student in Houston, learned that her mother had been laid off from her job at the Port of Houston. Her mother had kept the layoff a secret from her...
View ArticleThe Spectacular Fall of the Lincoln Project
In the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the Lincoln Project, the viral ad-making Never Trump group, was riding high. Over the previous 11 months, the group’s videos and tweets had...
View ArticleWould Everyone Please Have Some Pity for Poor Donald Trump?
Five people died when Trump supporters besieged the Capitol last month, including Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. Two other Capitol Police officers have since died by suicide. Others suffered a...
View ArticleThe Ambiguous End of “Remain in Mexico”
In a much-anticipated move, the Biden administration on Friday announced it would start allowing some asylum-seekers, forced to stay in Mexico under a 2019 Trump-era policy, to come to the United...
View ArticleCall Kyrsten Sinema’s Bluff
As perhaps the second-most conservative member of a Democratic Senate caucus that can’t afford to lose a single vote to pass its agenda, Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema has a great deal of leverage. Despite...
View ArticleThe Botched Democratic Effort to Convict Donald Trump
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump ended with a whimper Saturday afternoon, leaving time for the long weekend in honor of, yes, presidents. And like a veteran mob boss who sneers at justice,...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Masks Free Yet?
Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of its testing of masks for preventing the spread of Covid-19: Any mask is better than none, and the tighter the fit,...
View ArticleArizona’s Democratic Senators Are Already Angering the Left
Last week, during a series of votes on amendments to the Senate’s budget resolution, eight Democrats signed onto an amendment aimed at prohibiting undocumented immigrants from receiving Covid-19...
View ArticleThe Limits of Barack Obama’s Idealism
The grinding quality of American presidential memoirs owes to the cross-purposes they serve: to deliver a point-by-point defense of the administration’s record, while trying to persuade the public that...
View ArticleThe Capitol Riot Killed “Both Sides” Journalism
On January 6, terrorists—encouraged by former President Donald Trump and enabled by his Republican supporters in Congress—attacked the United States Capitol. And as they came for the republic, they...
View ArticleThe Predictable Politics Behind Trump’s Second Impeachment Acquittal
One of the long-running jokes of the Trump era was the notion that its bizarre twists and turns unfolded as though they’d been scripted by a troupe of hack screenwriters, laughing and typing away...
View ArticleWhy West Virginia’s Vaccine Rollout Puts New York and California to Shame
At the beginning of 2020, Maj. Gen. Jim Hoyer was ready to retire. He was turning 60, the usual age limit for leading the National Guard in West Virginia. He’d led responses to every major disaster in...
View ArticleThe Non-Hypocrisy of QAnon’s Sexual Politics
When Ruben Verastigui, a digital strategist who had worked for the Republican National Committee creating social media ads to promote Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, was arrested earlier this month...
View ArticleNevada’s Sales Pitch to Silicon Valley: You Can Create Your Own Government Here
Drive east from Reno, Nevada, on Interstate 80 and you’ll soon hit Storey County, a sparsely populated district of around 4,000 people that hosts some of the state’s most ambitious commercial...
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