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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His outdated view of marijuana legalization is blinding him to the will of the District’s voters.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.
May 31, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Fear Trump May Wreck Their Chances to Fulfill His Darkest Fantasies
Republicans are “fretting” about the former president’s political return. But they’re mostly worried about him undermining their ongoing anti-democratic efforts.
May 31, 2021
Lilah Burke
The Last Thing We Need Is an Uber for Off-Duty Cops
Private businesses are paying police big bucks to work during their off-hours. Now a slew of start-ups are looking for a piece of that action.
May 28, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Amazon Wants to Eat Health Care Next
The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.
May 28, 2021
Walter Shapiro
How Did New York City Politics Become So Boring?
The mayoral race used to be a reliably entertaining fight between outsize personalities and master operators. Now it’s a snooze fest.
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
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
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 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
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 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.
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