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May 25, 2022
Kate Aronoff
Henry Cuellar Is the Perfect Symbol of What’s Wrong With the Democratic Party
The runoff with Jessica Cisneros remains too close to call. The actions of Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, and Jim Clyburn, on the other hand...
May 25, 2022
Alex Shephard
Stop Hiring Flaks to Do the Work of Journalists
MSNBC’s decision to bring Jen Psaki onto its network isn’t much better than CBS hiring Mick Mulvaney.
May 25, 2022
Amy Wilentz
The New York Times
Corrects Lousy Haiti Coverage in …
The New York Times
The Twitter hubbub over uncredited scholars is a sideshow. The real people who’ve suffered from the way we’ve covered Haiti are Haitians.
May 24, 2022
David Rieff
On Taiwan, Joe Biden Just Said What Everybody Already Knows
The official U.S. policy is ambiguous and incoherent. Biden spoke the truth—but it’s a truth with some ominous implications.
May 24, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Decides Death Row Prisoners Don’t Deserve Competent Lawyers
The court’s conservatives have pared back the Sixth Amendment’s protections so that it won’t impede the state’s ability to erroneously execute the innocent.
May 24, 2022
Walter Shapiro
The Dethroned King Is Losing His Midas Touch
Donald Trump’s endorsees have struggled to get a majority in GOP primaries so far this year.
May 24, 2022
Daniel Strauss
The Crypto Kings Are Making Big Political Donations. What Could Go Wrong?
Sam Bankman-Fried may have lost in Oregon, but he and other crypto big shots have discovered politics. What will Democrats do for them in return?
May 24, 2022
Alex Shephard
Why on Earth Does Bill de Blasio Want to Be a Congressman?
There are better things for the former New York City mayor to do.
May 24, 2022
Jordan Michael Smith
Navalny’s New Anti-Putin Plan: Go After the Cronies
Some 6,000 Russian elites help prop their leader up. Can they be pressured to see he’s no longer worth it?
May 24, 2022
Timothy Noah
We Need an Asia Trade Agreement, and Biden Just Took a Small Step Toward Getting One
China is trying to shut U.S. companies out of Southeast Asia. We can’t let that happen.
May 23, 2022
Grace Segers
New York’s Redistricting Has Caused a “Train Wreck of Democrats’ Own Creation”
Democrats in New York gerrymandered too close to the sun, and now they’re paying the price.
May 23, 2022
Matt Ford
Abolishing Birth Control and Gay Marriage Is on the Table
With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe, and conservatives plotting a sexual counterrevolution, there’s no telling what rights might get abolished next.
May 23, 2022
Michael Tomasky
American Conservatism Just Threw a Party for Hungarian Fascism
That CPAC held an event in Budapest is just brain-melting. And yet our media barely paid attention. This is how democracy dies.
May 21, 2022
Jason Linkins
There Are No Super PAC Cops
Let’s stop pretending that rules forbidding coordination between campaigns and dark money groups exist.
May 20, 2022
Alex Shephard
Madison Cawthorn’s Defeat Isn’t Going to Change the GOP
It’s normally a good sign when a political party sheds an embarrassing extremist. This is something different.
May 20, 2022
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Win McCormack
In Search of the Common Good
You won’t find it in the tenets of neoliberalism.
May 20, 2022
Mary L. Trump
Mark Esper’s Fascinating Revelations Would Have Been Far More So in Real Time
If he and John Bolton and Bill Barr and all the other “adults in the room” had spoken up when it mattered, history could be different.
May 20, 2022
Daniel Strauss
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Grace Segers
January 6 Recap: An Aggressive (!) Move by the Justice Department
The request for House select committee transcripts could mean something really big is happening at DOJ.
May 20, 2022
Marisa Kabas
George W. Bush Makes a Brutal Return to Our Psyche
The former president’s recent Ukraine-or-Iraq invasion gaffe was a high-test dose of accidental honesty—and painful nostalgia.
May 19, 2022
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas Is Throwing the Supreme Court’s History Out the Window
The conservative legal icon has a lot of disagreements with the Supreme Court’s decisions and is showing no hesitation in pushing to erase long-standing precedents.
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