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May 27, 2021
Matt Ford
Trump Wants a New Contract With America, Which Just Revoked His Last Contract
Newt Gingrich’s team-up with the former president seeks to ignite the spirit of ’94, but only shows how far the GOP has retreated from governance.
May 27, 2021
Stuart Schrader
The Lies Cops Tell and the Lies We Tell About Cops
The deception isn’t just a matter of language. It’s baked into the institution.
May 27, 2021
Timothy Noah
Who Does J.D. Vance Think He’s Fooling?
I am a fan of “Hillbilly Elegy”—even the movie!—but I can no longer admire the plutocratic fraud that its author has become.
May 27, 2021
Alex Shephard
Amazon Devours MGM in the Latest Merger of the Content Armageddon
The e-commerce giant covets the Hollywood studio’s sweet, sweet cache of intellectual property.
May 26, 2021
Nick Pinto
The Justice Department Is Getting Back Into the Business of Police Oversight. Will It Matter?
The Biden administration is investigating the Minneapolis Police Department, but history shows that the government’s power to rein in cop culture is limited.
May 26, 2021
Matt Ford
Can the Politics of Police Reform Survive the Crime Rates of Our Pandemic Year?
An impenetrable web of statistics is being used to deflect criticisms and reshape the media narrative around policing.
May 26, 2021
Alex Shephard
CNN Fired Rick Santorum and Forgave Chris Cuomo. Ethics Had Nothing to Do With It.
Good luck trying to figure out what the network’s journalistic standards are.
May 26, 2021
Marie Solis
How Anti-Abortion Activists’ “Reckless Dream” Made It to the Supreme Court
In 2011, the first “fetal heartbeat” bill was introduced in Ohio. The tactic was seen as too extreme to ban abortion effectively, but a decade later it may pay off.
May 25, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Bored Reporters in Washington Declare an End to the Biden Honeymoon
Beltway pundits, finally wise to the fact that the president’s agenda faces long odds, have decided that the narrative needs to be changed.
May 25, 2021
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Patrick Blanchfield
The Professor Who Became a Cop
Rosa Brooks wanted to fix law enforcement. She decided to become a police officer.
May 25, 2021
William Egginton
Academic Tenure Is Broken. Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Case Makes That Clear.
Even when tenure decisions aren’t influenced by politics, they often exacerbate deep inequalities. And professors who do get tenure are untouchable.
May 25, 2021
Audrey Clare Farley
The Exorcists Who Are Battling Black Lives Matter
Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs.
May 24, 2021
Casey Michel
Will Europe Finally Stand Up to Belarus’s Plane-Hijacking Bully?
The forced landing of a Ryanair flight and arrest of journalist Roman Protasevich is President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s most brazen dare yet to the EU.
May 24, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Now Says It’s the Solution to the Crises It Created
Through ads and op-eds, Facebook is leaning into the demand for more regulation—but only on its preferred terms. Don’t trust it.
May 24, 2021
Matt Ford
What Does the U.S. Owe American Samoa?
A fishing dispute with the federal government is raising deeper questions about the island territory’s legal and constitutional status.
May 24, 2021
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Dan Xin Huang
China Is Proud of Its Covid Response. But Taiwan’s Was Better.
How the island nation charted a path between Chinese authoritarianism and Western chaos
May 24, 2021
Harrison Stetler
The Year That Broke Emmanuel Macron’s Republican Front
The French president is facing a far right that has gained the upper hand in the country’s insidious culture wars. And he has only himself to blame.
May 24, 2021
Blair McClendon
Black Politics After George Floyd
The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics.
May 24, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Have Democrats Reached a Turning Point on Israel?
Recent violence and shifts in public opinion have created an opportunity for advocates to push President Biden on a policy that’s been fixed in amber.
May 24, 2021
Natalie Shure
Israel’s Never-Ending War Against Palestinian Health
Between all the headline-rattling periods of military violence, Israel’s policies toward Gaza keep its residents in a continual state of suffering.
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