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June 7, 2021
Natalie Shure
Many More Americans Would Be Vaccinated if Our Health Care System Wasn’t So Terrifying
People don’t trust an industry known for bureaucratic traps and surprise billing to save them from the pandemic.
June 4, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump’s War on the Press Isn’t Over Until Biden Ends It
The previous two administrations’ dogged pursuit of reporters’ records demands immediate reform.
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Finally Decides Your Worst Uncle and Donald Trump Deserve the Same Content Moderation
The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.
June 4, 2021
Magazine
Aslı Bâli
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Aziz Rana
Biden’s Foreign Policy Doctrine Is Stuck in the Twentieth Century
The president’s domestic agenda is surprisingly ambitious and progressive. So why is he proposing conventional, outdated solutions to the world’s crises?
June 4, 2021
Timothy Noah
Republicans Are Accidentally Suppressing Their Own Voters
Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Dan Crenshaw’s Paranoid Delusions of a “Woke” Military
Our death-dealing institutions are no less lethal, but Republicans are just that desperate for another front in the culture war.
June 4, 2021
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Bill Gates
Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health.
June 3, 2021
Alex Thomas
Elizabeth MacDonough Is the Most Quietly Consequential Person in Washington
The Senate parliamentarian normally flies under the radar, but she now holds the Democrats’ ambitious plans in her hands.
June 3, 2021
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Infrastructure Week Is Turning Into a Joke, Too
The Trump era’s most infamous metaphor takes on a new meaning as “bipartisan” negotiations drag on.
June 3, 2021
Matt Ford
Biden’s Shameful, Conservative Stance Against Legal Pot in D.C.
His outdated view of marijuana legalization is blinding him to the will of the District’s voters.
June 2, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Want to Stop Ransomware Attacks? Ban Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies.
Hackers extorted millions from Colonial Pipeline, and now they’ve struck the meatpacking giant JBS. There’s one clear way to prevent future attacks.
June 1, 2021
Matt Ford
The Overthrow of American Democracy Begins in Texas
Over the weekend, Republicans in the state tried to pass an extreme voter-suppression bill and hosted a conference in which Michael Flynn endorsed a military coup.
June 1, 2021
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Republicans Want a Coup
Michael Flynn’s embrace of a Myanmar-style military overthrow is chilling. It’s also a growing position within the GOP.
June 1, 2021
Alexander Zaitchik
Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property
Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?
June 1, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Don McGahn’s Testimony Is One More Wall Quickly Closing In on Donald Trump
The former president is learning that the old, responsibility-evading tricks he used as a private-sector scammer don’t work once you’ve held public office.
June 1, 2021
Natalie Shure
You Don’t Have to Root for Melinda Gates
Rather than choose sides in this P.R. war of plutocrat divorcés, we should scrutinize whether billionaire philanthropy really works.
May 31, 2021
Alex Shephard
Republicans Fear Trump May Wreck Their Chances to Fulfill His Darkest Fantasies
Republicans are “fretting” about the former president’s political return. But they’re mostly worried about him undermining their ongoing anti-democratic efforts.
May 31, 2021
Lilah Burke
The Last Thing We Need Is an Uber for Off-Duty Cops
Private businesses are paying police big bucks to work during their off-hours. Now a slew of start-ups are looking for a piece of that action.
May 28, 2021
Walter Shapiro
How Did New York City Politics Become So Boring?
The mayoral race used to be a reliably entertaining fight between outsize personalities and master operators. Now it’s a snooze fest.
May 28, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Amazon Wants to Eat Health Care Next
The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.
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