Alex Pareene

@pareene

Clintonites taught their party how to talk about helping people without actually doing it.

Wall Street is trying to fool investors into thinking they can get rich and save the planet at the same time.

Why do game studios keep imploding?

No, the results didn’t surprise “the left,” and no, they don’t support your arguments about elections everywhere else.

It’s politically savvy for Democrats to avoid wading into the “critical race theory” culture war. It’s also a dereliction of duty.

After every election, Democrats seem to talk about how they failed to craft a clear message. So how about bombarding people with a new kind of campaign ad?

Party leaders should act like they believe their own rhetoric on Republican extremism.

The U.S. Senate is incapable of policing itself—and the two Republicans are too shameless to resign.

How moderates’ fear of the Congressional Budget Office screws students and shrinks ambitious policy, all to protect the fabled “taxpayer”

How Republicans across the country came to endorse a terrorist tactic against protesters

The front-runner to become the next mayor of New York has a lot of big ideas. Few of them have much to do with running New York.

As long as conservatives are obsessed with Dr. Seuss and “woke capital,” they’ll be too distracted to wage genuinely harmful culture wars.

They’ll come around with time. The broader questions of access and equity are more important.

Nations across the world are demanding the right to manufacture their own Covid-19 vaccines. Why is the U.S. saying no?

Party leaders like Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer say they won’t repeat the missteps of Barack Obama’s first term. They haven’t proved it quite yet.

Stunts like forcing legislation to be read aloud would be trivially easy to get rid of, if anyone wanted to.

America’s armed forces are stepping in for the dismantled state.

Is bullying fellow Democrats part of the New York governor’s brand, or just a print storyline that didn’t make it to the screen?

His meteoric rise to mainstream celebrity could only have happened in 1990s America. Some people would like to go back.

The would-be maverick Democrat is trying to sink the minimum wage hike. Her threats are emptier than they seem.