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June 7, 2021
Matt Ford
Joe Manchin Inches Closer to Trump’s Big Lie
Why is the Democratic senator from West Virginia echoing Republican talking points about American elections?
June 7, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Even Donald Trump Knows Bitcoin Is a Scam
Bitcoin provides entreé to a wildcat market dominated by fraudsters. The ex-president clearly recognizes his milieu.
June 7, 2021
Magazine
Alex Pareene
Why Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Won’t Be Punished for Fomenting a Riot
The U.S. Senate is incapable of policing itself—and the two Republicans are too shameless to resign.
June 7, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Yes, Take This Seriously: It’s Time to Kill the Senate
The upper body of Congress has become a colossal wreck where democracy goes to die.
June 7, 2021
Natalie Shure
Many More Americans Would Be Vaccinated if Our Health Care System Wasn’t So Terrifying
People don’t trust an industry known for bureaucratic traps and surprise billing to save them from the pandemic.
June 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump’s War on the Press Isn’t Over Until Biden Ends It
The previous two administrations’ dogged pursuit of reporters’ records demands immediate reform.
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Finally Decides Your Worst Uncle and Donald Trump Deserve the Same Content Moderation
The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.
June 4, 2021
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Biden’s Foreign Policy Doctrine Is Stuck in the Twentieth Century
The president’s domestic agenda is surprisingly ambitious and progressive. So why is he proposing conventional, outdated solutions to the world’s crises?
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Dan Crenshaw’s Paranoid Delusions of a “Woke” Military
Our death-dealing institutions are no less lethal, but Republicans are just that desperate for another front in the culture war.
June 4, 2021
Timothy Noah
Republicans Are Accidentally Suppressing Their Own Voters
Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.
June 4, 2021
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Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Bill Gates
Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health.
June 3, 2021
Alex Thomas
Elizabeth MacDonough Is the Most Quietly Consequential Person in Washington
The Senate parliamentarian normally flies under the radar, but she now holds the Democrats’ ambitious plans in her hands.
June 3, 2021
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Infrastructure Week Is Turning Into a Joke, Too
The Trump era’s most infamous metaphor takes on a new meaning as “bipartisan” negotiations drag on.
June 3, 2021
Matt Ford
Biden’s Shameful, Conservative Stance Against Legal Pot in D.C.
His outdated view of marijuana legalization is blinding him to the will of the District’s voters.
June 2, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Want to Stop Ransomware Attacks? Ban Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies.
Hackers extorted millions from Colonial Pipeline, and now they’ve struck the meatpacking giant JBS. There’s one clear way to prevent future attacks.
June 1, 2021
Matt Ford
The Overthrow of American Democracy Begins in Texas
Over the weekend, Republicans in the state tried to pass an extreme voter-suppression bill and hosted a conference in which Michael Flynn endorsed a military coup.
June 1, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Republicans Want a Coup
Michael Flynn’s embrace of a Myanmar-style military overthrow is chilling. It’s also a growing position within the GOP.
June 1, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Don McGahn’s Testimony Is One More Wall Quickly Closing In on Donald Trump
The former president is learning that the old, responsibility-evading tricks he used as a private-sector scammer don’t work once you’ve held public office.
June 1, 2021
Alexander Zaitchik
Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property
Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?
June 1, 2021
Natalie Shure
You Don’t Have to Root for Melinda Gates
Rather than choose sides in this P.R. war of plutocrat divorcés, we should scrutinize whether billionaire philanthropy really works.
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