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June 9, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
Will Biden’s Obsession With Compromise Poison His Agenda on LGBTQ Rights?
An opaque court filing in an anti-LGBTQ discrimination case has advocates asking if this administration will “bargain down” the rights of students to reach an uneasy peace with Republicans.
June 9, 2021
Alex Shephard
Brian Stelter on How the 2020 Election “Radicalized” Fox News
“The number of Fox staffers who said to me, ‘I miss Roger Ailes’ absolutely astonished me.”
June 9, 2021
Michael Kimmage
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Matthew Rojansky
Make Vladimir Putin Boring Again
Biden’s upcoming meeting with the Russian president is the perfect opportunity to shrink Russia’s outsize significance in American politics.
June 9, 2021
Walter Shapiro
Are Democrats Done Fighting Big Money in Politics?
New York City has one of the most generous campaign finance programs in the country. So why are all the leading Democrats in the mayoral race relying on super PACs?
June 8, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Party of Trump Is Trying to Get People Mad at Anthony Fauci Again
The latest attacks from the GOP betray its desperation to find something, anything, to attack Joe Biden with.
June 8, 2021
Jeff Hauser
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Max Moran
Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
In the name of returning the DOJ to “normal,” the attorney general has protected an abnormal president from accountability.
June 8, 2021
Alex Pareene
Democrats, Stop Negotiating With Traitors
Party leaders should act like they believe their own rhetoric on Republican extremism.
June 8, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
The
New York Times
’ Culture-War Definition of Free Speech
Michael Powell frames policing and racial justice as issues moving the ACLU away from its core mission around speech. It’s a false antagonism—and a trap.
June 8, 2021
Magazine
Jake Bittle
The Fox News Guest Behind the Republican Frenzy Over Critical Race Theory
A year ago, Christopher Rufo was an obscure documentarian. Now, he’s being invited on Tucker Carlson’s show to gin up fears of Marxism in America.
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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Aslı Bâli
,
Aziz Rana
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.
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