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July 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Law Was Never Meant for Ghislaine Maxwell
Sex trafficking prosecution has been framed as a universal pursuit people can unite around, but that’s a fantasy.
July 10, 2020
J.C. Pan
There’s No Such Thing as Pandemic Austerity for Billionaires
As families face food insecurity and homelessness, lobbyists, massive corporations, and the American war machine are living large.
July 10, 2020
Alex Shephard
Mary Trump Diagnoses the President
A dark new family history from Donald Trump’s niece may be the most intimate psychological portrait of him yet.
July 9, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Trump Is Numbing America to the Pandemic’s Ravages
The president believes he can win reelection if voters become indifferent to the dead and suffering. Is Joe Biden capable of proving him wrong?
July 9, 2020
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Brings the Presidency Back From a Lawless Brink
Today's decisions may not provide the deus ex machina that brings down Trump, but they slam the brakes on runaway executive power.
July 9, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Limits of Democrats’ Climate Progress
The Unity Task Force climate recommendations are a huge improvement on policy proposals last election cycle. Now what?
July 9, 2020
Jasper Craven
Inside the VA’s Long-Standing Racism Problem
A Confederate-friendly Trump appointee and an involuntary Juneteenth dress-up are just the latest in a long history of indignities for black veterans and caregivers.
July 9, 2020
Audrey Clare Farley
When Cops Kill White People, Black Lives Still Matter
The roots of modern policing are steeped in a white supremacy from which none are immune.
July 9, 2020
Matt Ford
Fear of a Forever-Trump Administration
There doesn’t seem to be much faith in the peaceful transition of power, if the burgeoning canon of postelection pulp horror is any guide.
July 8, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Reproductive Coercion Wins at the Supreme Court
Conservatives have prevailed in an effort to deny people bodily autonomy. That’s always been their fight.
July 8, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
Trump’s Reopening Agenda Is Upending International Students’ Futures
“Is there going to be an injunction? Do we have months to years, or are we packing up right now?”
July 8, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The Republicans Take America on a Death March
Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Betsy DeVos are willing to sacrifice thousands of American lives for nothing more than political points.
July 8, 2020
Matt Ford
The Electoral College Is an American Humiliation
If the Supreme Court no longer believes the lie that’s sustained this hastily concocted relic from our nation’s founding, why should anyone?
July 8, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Problem With Yascha Mounk’s Persuasion
His new platform aims “to defend free speech and free inquiry against all its enemies.” But is it really just obsessed with cancel culture?
July 7, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Impossible Math of the Pandemic
Parents are working while their kids stay home from school. Grocery budgets are thin. Rents are due. This was never sustainable.
July 7, 2020
Libby Watson
The Wrong Way to Grapple With a Public Health Crisis
The New York Times has either made a grave category error or they’ve given up on the idea of solving America’s health insurance problem.
July 7, 2020
Casey Michel
The Left’s Deafening Silence on China’s Ethnic Cleansing
Anti-imperialist leftists can’t afford to cede this issue to centrist Democrats and the Trumpist right.
July 6, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism
The critics of progressive identity politics have got it all wrong: They’re the illiberal ones.
July 6, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
Woodrow Wilson Was Even More Racist Than You Thought
Princeton University could have disassociated itself from the former president a long time ago.
July 3, 2020
Aderson Bellegarde François
What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls
The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.
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