The Final Battle in Big Tech’s War to Dominate Your World
Bellum omnium contra omnes is Latin for “the war of all against all.” Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Hobbes used the phrase to describe the natural state of man in the absence of governmental...
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It’s hard to saywhether we would have slept lesseasy in that rented room,knowing that past the window’sscratched glaucoma,the empty lot full of sand,they were waking—would wake—from thirty-years,these...
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In which the studio grows L-shaped, with an alcove for the bed, you modest dream, in which the railroad widens sideways, new door a sudden wing ought to invade the brownstone next door, but that...
View ArticleThe Stephen Miller Presidency
Stephen Miller is winning. In recent days, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for policy has overseen a purge of officials who were seen as insufficiently extreme on immigration. Homeland Security...
View ArticleWill John Roberts Let Trump Hide His Tax Returns Forever?
President Donald Trump really doesn’t want you to know what’s in his tax returns. During the 2016 campaign, he broke with 40 years of tradition by refusing to make them public. (He insisted they were...
View ArticleIs Belarus Putin’s Next Land Grab?
Last summer, in a small town overlooking the Russian border, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a stark and pointed pronouncement. “If we don’t survive these years—if we fail,” he said, “it...
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Down to Earth
How do you talk about an emergency when it seems as if no one is listening? For years, journalists, scientists, and activists concerned with the ongoing horror of climate catastrophe have faced this...
View ArticleThe New Republic Hires Veteran Editor Chris Lehmann
New York, NY—(April 8, 2019)—The New Republic announced Chris Lehmann as its full-time editor effective immediately, following his role as a consulting editorial director at the publication. Lehmann is...
View ArticleTrump’s War on the Rule of Law Is Reaching the Breaking Point
There’s a disturbing cycle to Donald Trump’s war on immigrants. It starts with the president’s demand for harsher policies on the southern border, no matter how legally or morally dubious they may be....
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The Making of an Anti-Semitic Myth
Even at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the old anti-Semitic specter of the Jew as a financial international manipulator and money-grubber persists, from Moscow and Budapest to Des Moines,...
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Alex Berenson and the Last Anti-Cannabis Crusade
In 1937, America’s first drug czar, Harry J. Anslinger, published a feature story in The American Magazine titled “Marijuana, Assassin of Youth.” The article featured a vicious ax murderer with a drug...
View ArticleThe Growing Obsession With Linking Iran to Terrorism
On Monday, President Trump designated the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran’s armed forces, as a “terrorist organization.” CIA and Pentagon officials told The New York...
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Susan Choi’s Missing Persons
Half-child and half-adult, adolescents are not very interesting. Adolescence is a temporary madness, common as a cold and usually about as profound. Maybe that’s one reason it interests artists: Teens...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s Silent Majority
A week ago, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign looked like it was dead on arrival. Accusations of unwanted touching brought forth by several women had become a major issue. Biden was lampooned by...
View ArticleWhy the Religious Right Is Terrified of Pete Buttigieg
When Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced he was gay in a South Bend Tribune op-ed in 2015, at the ripe old coming-out age of 33, his rhetoric was anything but revolutionary. He had struggled for years, he...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Blurry Black Hole Photo
A group of astronomers has done something incredible: They captured the first photograph ever taken of a black hole. The image, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope and released by the National...
View ArticleWhy Pet Sematary Refuses to Die
Like a roadkilled cat gruesomely returned from the dead, Pet Sematary is back. The 2019 remake of the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1983 novel lumbers onto the screen like a resurrected pet...
View ArticleWhy Narendra Modi’s Plan to “Clean” Up India Hasn’t Worked
Over the next six weeks, Indian voters will choose their leaders in the world’s largest-ever election. Whether citizens will opt for the ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister...
View ArticleU.S. Charges Julian Assange With ... Well, What Exactly?
Even before Thursday’s arrest by British authorities, Julian Assange was not a sympathetic character. The WikiLeaks founder had spent the last seven years in Ecuador’s embassy in London, initially...
View ArticleThe Labour Party’s Role in the Brexit Crisis
Three years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and two weeks after it was supposed to have left, Prime Minister Theresa May returned to Europe this week, hat in hand, to ask for...
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