Libby Watson

@libbycwatson

The curious case of how a 75-year-old Buffalo man became the leader of a dangerous leftist organization that doesn’t actually exist.

Mitt Romney tweeted that “Black Lives Matter.” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser painted it on the street. But will they fight for true reform? (Probably not.)

The paper’s staff is in an incandescent rage over the decision to publish an op-ed calling for the violent disruption of First Amendment rights.

The chief mechanism of wealth accumulation relentlessly and unfailingly pits the American people against their elected representatives.

If our ex-presidents couldn’t solve America’s problems while they were in office, what good are they in this current crisis?

Britons are used to being able to humiliate their politicians, but the besieged Tory adviser is determined to survive his coronavirus bungle.

Long before they were ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, our nursing homes were a place of heartlessness, abuse, and neglect.

Furious at being denied their fast food and manicures, the “reopen America” rebels have invented a slew of new constitutional rights.

The popular perception of Trump’s son-in-law is that he’s a foppish nepotism hire, but he has a plan to enrich himself at your expense.

A health care system designed to rake profits for an elite few is ill-suited to carrying out a nationwide herd immunity project.

The radical promise of “Believe Women” has been an unintended casualty of the quickly fading Biden sexual misconduct controversy.

For the president, the question isn’t how many people die from the coronavirus pandemic, but who.

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the frail and unequal nature of our public health system. It doesn’t have to be this way.

The young base of Bernie Sanders may never love the Democratic nominee, but there’s a middle ground on which they might meet.

Those whose livelihoods are being ravaged by the pandemic are getting further maligned by an out-of-touch press.

Free, universal health care would not have stopped the coronavirus, but it would have protected the poor and vulnerable.

The now and future dead deserve some attempt at justice.

If you want to know how bad things will get in this pandemic, just consider how bad things have been.

A small universe of hack academics has emerged in this time of crisis to defend the indefensible.

For the affluent, painful restrictions could be an opportunity to reorient toward more climate-friendly ways of living.