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May 7, 2020
Matt Ford
The Jared Kushner of the Federal Judiciary
Judge Justin Walker is the worst of a long line of right-wing dilettantes fast-tracked by Mitch McConnell in his relentless quest to subvert the judiciary.
May 7, 2020
Andrew Schwartz
The Fraught Realities of Financial Relief During a Pandemic
For many Americans receiving unemployment insurance right now, finally coming out ahead shows how badly they’ve been left behind.
May 6, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Bipartisanship Won’t Save Us
Politicians and pundits are always lamenting the division in Washington. Well, Congress came together to address the coronavirus crisis—and failed.
May 6, 2020
Zack Kopplin
Why Is the Pentagon Still Paying $10 a Gallon for Gas?
Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.
May 5, 2020
Nick Martin
The All-Consuming White Pandemic Protester
As white armed protesters flood state capitols to be marveled at by the media and left alone by police, workers of color are fighting for their survival.
May 5, 2020
Alex Shephard
Why Do Democrats Keep Embracing George W. Bush?
Holding Bush up as a paragon of civic virtue underscores the party’s failures to present a real alternative.
May 5, 2020
Annie Tan
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J.C. Pan
I’m Teaching From Home and Don’t Know How Long We Can Keep This Up
My students are stressed, their families are sick, and teachers like me are trying to hold it all together.
May 4, 2020
Libby Watson
Donald Trump’s Death March
For the president, the question isn’t how many people die from the coronavirus pandemic, but who.
May 3, 2020
Justine van der Leun
Death of a Survivor
In April, Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay became the first woman incarcerated by New York State to die from Covid-19. Should she have been in prison in the first place?
May 2, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Democrats are Losing at Political Rhetoric
While Joe Biden has struggled to say anything truly memorable to voters this year, it’s a malady shared by his party’s key figures in the post-Obama era.
May 1, 2020
J.C. Pan
Two Weeks of Democrats’ Pathetic Attempts at Opposition
From the pandemic response to campaign strategy, it looks like there are two Republican parties.
May 1, 2020
Sarah Jaffe
The Post-Pandemic Future of Work
The current crisis is forcing us to reconsider what it means to have to work to live. It's long overdue.
May 1, 2020
J.C. Pan
Imagining a Real “Right to Work”
The decades-long movement to drain unions of their strength and resources has brought us to our present crisis. It’s time to redefine our terms.
May 1, 2020
David Roth
The Cancer in the Camera Lens
Far from shining a curative light on the Trump administration, the media has become engulfed by his empire of stupidity.
May 1, 2020
Alex Pareene
Democrats Aren’t Stuck With Joe Biden
No one has to tie themselves in knots to defend him if they don’t want to.
April 30, 2020
Alex Shephard
Turns Out Andrew Cuomo Isn’t America’s Governor After All
Under pressure for his coronavirus response, the former media darling of the crisis is sounding a bit like Donald Trump.
April 30, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Joe Biden’s Tired Feminist Shield
How Tara Reade’s allegations bring us back to a familiar cycle of denial and complicity
April 30, 2020
Libby Watson
The Intolerable Fragility of American Hospitals
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the frail and unequal nature of our public health system. It doesn’t have to be this way.
April 30, 2020
Joe Lowndes
The Morbid Ideology Behind the Drive to Reopen America
The right has mobilized a small army of true believers willing to die in the defense of a less just world.
April 30, 2020
Nick Martin
The Era of the Endless Rent Strike
Out of work and with little savings, millions of tenants are already part of a movement. They just don’t know it yet.
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