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May 25, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Bored Reporters in Washington Declare an End to the Biden Honeymoon
Beltway pundits, finally wise to the fact that the president’s agenda faces long odds, have decided that the narrative needs to be changed.
May 25, 2021
Audrey Clare Farley
The Exorcists Who Are Battling Black Lives Matter
Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs.
May 25, 2021
William Egginton
Academic Tenure Is Broken. Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Case Makes That Clear.
Even when tenure decisions aren’t influenced by politics, they often exacerbate deep inequalities. And professors who do get tenure are untouchable.
May 24, 2021
Casey Michel
Will Europe Finally Stand Up to Belarus’s Plane-Hijacking Bully?
The forced landing of a Ryanair flight and arrest of journalist Roman Protasevich is President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s most brazen dare yet to the EU.
May 24, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Now Says It’s the Solution to the Crises It Created
Through ads and op-eds, Facebook is leaning into the demand for more regulation—but only on its preferred terms. Don’t trust it.
May 24, 2021
Matt Ford
What Does the U.S. Owe American Samoa?
A fishing dispute with the federal government is raising deeper questions about the island territory’s legal and constitutional status.
May 24, 2021
Harrison Stetler
The Year That Broke Emmanuel Macron’s Republican Front
The French president is facing a far right that has gained the upper hand in the country’s insidious culture wars. And he has only himself to blame.
May 24, 2021
Natalie Shure
Israel’s Never-Ending War Against Palestinian Health
Between all the headline-rattling periods of military violence, Israel’s policies toward Gaza keep its residents in a continual state of suffering.
May 24, 2021
Blair McClendon
Black Politics After George Floyd
The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics.
May 24, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Have Democrats Reached a Turning Point on Israel?
Recent violence and shifts in public opinion have created an opportunity for advocates to push President Biden on a policy that’s been fixed in amber.
May 24, 2021
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Dan Xin Huang
China Is Proud of Its Covid Response. But Taiwan’s Was Better.
How the island nation charted a path between Chinese authoritarianism and Western chaos
May 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Associated Press Gives in to Right-Wing Trolls
A bad-faith smear campaign over college activism cost a news associate her job.
May 21, 2021
Jason Colavito
How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers
A collection of well-funded UFO obsessives are using their Capitol Hill connections to launder some outré, and potentially dangerous, ideas.
May 21, 2021
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John Patrick Leary
Why “Social Justice” Triggers Conservatives
They loathe any words that imply an obligation to their fellow human beings.
May 21, 2021
Timothy Noah
It Shouldn’t Take a Pandemic to Boost Worker Wages
From the Black Death to Covid-19, deadly plagues have a tendency to raise hourly earnings—for the grisliest of reasons.
May 20, 2021
Nina Luo
The American Victims of Washington’s Anti-China Hysteria
The “Yellow Peril” tropes that may pave the way for a new war abroad have historically fueled anti-Asian hate on these shores.
May 20, 2021
Matt Ford
The Republicans Would Like You to Please Forget That January 6 Ever Happened
Party leaders, taking their cues from Donald Trump, are trying to shove the violence he instigated into the memory hole.
May 19, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Bitcoin Keeps Falling, but Everything Is Fine Among the Crypto True Believers
As Bitcoin’s price fell by up to 30 percent, its partisans went on Clubhouse and Twitter to offer reassurances and advice to “go outside, go exercise—just don’t follow the swings.”
May 19, 2021
Matt Ford
Brett Kavanaugh Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
His recent ruling shreds a precedent that offered criminal defendants a chance to challenge unjust sentences—and reveals how the court’s conservative bloc has no boundaries.
May 18, 2021
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Hannah Gais
A New “War on Terrorism” Is the Wrong Way to Fight Domestic Extremists
One was a State Department official. The other was in the Army. Their stories show why we don’t need post-9/11 tactics to root out far-right threats.
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