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February 28, 2024
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Joe Biden Should Pay Close Attention to the Michigan Results
A campaign to vote “uncommitted” has shattered expectations in the Michigan Democratic primary.
January 18, 2023
Tori Otten
George Santos Liked Using a Fake Jewish Name on GoFundMe Because “The Jews Will Give More”
Santos used the name “Anthony Zabrovsky” to better scam donors to his fake animal charity, according to his former roommate.
October 12, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Shows No Signs of Slaking Its Thirst for Capital Punishment
A pair of death penalty decisions reaffirms a sad fact about the high court: There is a majority of justices who want to keep the executions coming.
September 2, 2022
Alex Shephard
Trump Is Having a Nuclear Meltdown on His Sad Social Media Platform
As he descends into demented rants and his legal team flails in his defense, Republicans have to wonder: Just how radioactive is this all going to get?
May 9, 2022
Matt Ford
The Abortion Restrictions That Will Snap Into Place the Minute Roe Goes Down
Conservative lawmakers across the country have enacted “trigger laws” that will radically alter the legal landscape overnight if the Supreme Court overturns reproductive rights.
May 4, 2022
Annie Geng
Texans Went to Oklahoma for Abortions—but as of This Week, Oklahoma’s Law Is Just as Severe
With a near-total abortion ban now in effect, anti-abortion protesters at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s only independent clinic feel like “they’ve won the war.” But abortion advocates aren’t ready to give up the fight.
April 25, 2022
Arthur Goldhammer
Macron Beats Le Pen Handily—but the Battle to Define France Is Hardly Over
It wasn’t even close, thank goodness. But legislative elections loom in June, and the nation remains deeply fractured.
April 1, 2022
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What Can Biden Do Now to Protect the Ballot? We Asked Eric Holder and Six Other Voting Rights Experts.
Here’s what the president can do, now that major reforms are dead in the water in Congress.
February 23, 2022
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Critics Miss the Good Old Days of Madman Trump
The former president’s apologists are claiming that his recklessness would have been more effective in countering Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
January 20, 2022
Grace Segers
The Democrats Are Now Debating Which “Chunks” of Build Back Better to Save
Biden is hoping that some sizable portion of his social spending bill might yet make it to his desk.
January 18, 2022
Michael Tomasky
Will Trump Lose His Throne to Ron DeSantis?
New 2024 election story line just dropped: The Florida governor versus the former guy for the future of Trumpism.
November 4, 2021
Matt Ford
Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Isn’t Really a Vaccine Mandate
The new OSHA pandemic regulations that just dropped are a work of semantic art with a conservative Supreme Court in mind.
October 19, 2021
Raina Lipsitz
The Erie County Sheriff’s Race Is a Matter of Life or Death
Voters in Western New York have the chance to issue a strong statement about the dire conditions in American jails.
June 4, 2020
Libby Watson
The Stock Market Is an Engine of Civic Destruction
The chief mechanism of wealth accumulation relentlessly and unfailingly pits the American people against their elected representatives.
March 18, 2019
Jo Livingstone
What Was the Foodie?
Food culture has never been bigger. It's also never been more controversial.
August 14, 2018
Robert Foyle Hunwick
The 30-Year Manhunt for China’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
Why did Gao Chengyong rape and mutiliate 11 women—and why did he stop?
June 7, 2018
Rachel Stone
A furor is building over Boston Review’s decision to keep Junot Díaz on staff.
May 31, 2018
Jeet Heer
Samantha Bee picked the worst moment to insult Ivanka Trump.
August 31, 2017
Navneet Alang
Turns Out Algorithms Are Racist
Artificial intelligence is becoming a greater part of our daily lives, but the technologies can contain dangerous biases and assumptions—and we're only beginning to understand the consequences.
July 27, 2017
Moira Donegan
Jeff Sessions wants to make sure that you can be fired for being gay.

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