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May 14, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are High on Colonial Pipeline’s Fumes
Hack or no hack, the GOP-to-fossil-fuel-industry pipeline is running just fine.
May 14, 2021
Magazine
Nikhil Pal Singh
Are Liberal Cities Turning Against Their Progressive Prosecutors?
District attorneys in San Francisco and Philadelphia promised to overturn decades of tough-on-crime policies. Now, as violent crime rises, they may be kicked out of office.
May 14, 2021
Matt Ford
Joe Manchin Finally Has a Good Idea
The key vote of the Senate might have a way to preserve voting rights from the GOP’s assaults and John Roberts’ legal opinions.
May 14, 2021
Alex Shephard
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Really Great at Her Job: Professional Troll
With the GOP giving up on governing, the future belongs to the cranks.
May 13, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Can Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Betrayal Expose the Grift of Cryptocurrency?
The Tesla executive’s reversal affirms that Bitcoin is an environmentally wasteful multilevel marketing scheme. But the true believers won’t hear it.
May 13, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
The Democrats’ Majority Is Hanging By a Thread. They Don’t Seem to Care.
With its razor-thin margins in Congress and an aging caucus, why isn’t the party acting with more urgency to protect voting rights from Republican assault?
May 13, 2021
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Osita Nwanevu
Democracy’s Moment of Reckoning
If we lose the fight to protect voting rights, we'll lose everything else, too.
May 12, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Republican “Civil War” Is Actually Just the Trump GOP Against a Few Losers
Liz Cheney and Miles Taylor refuse to accept the obvious truth: They lost their battle for the soul of the party years ago.
May 12, 2021
Josh Sklar
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Jacob Silverman
I Was a Facebook Content Moderator. I Quit in Disgust.
Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.
May 12, 2021
Felipe De La Hoz
Joe Biden, Tear Down Stephen Miller’s Administrative Wall
Rather than shred Trump’s immigration restrictions, Biden is responding with his own regulations that may only make things worse.
May 11, 2021
Matt Ford
Rahm Emanuel Gets Another Job He Doesn’t Deserve
The failed former Chicago mayor will be shipped off to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, for some reason.
May 11, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Low Wages and Crappy Jobs Gave Us the Labor “Shortage”
Republicans think overly generous unemployment benefits are keeping people from working. Biden might be taking the bait.
May 11, 2021
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Kate Wagner
Why the Democrats Need an Architectural Vision to Counter the Right’s
Republicans are already advancing a distinct—if ugly and tasteless—aesthetic. Biden should follow in FDR’s footsteps and create a Public Works Administration for the twenty-first century.
May 10, 2021
Alex Shephard
Thanks to a Horse, the Cancel Culture Debate Just Got Even Dumber
How Medina Spirit’s positive drug test before the Preakness drew the ire of Donald Trump and Fox News
May 10, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Joe Biden Can’t Duck the Jerusalem Crisis
Israel’s latest Palestinian crackdown cries out to be condemned by this administration. Will he break from the deadly status quo?
May 10, 2021
Bruce Bartlett
I Quit the GOP and Moved Left. Will Liz Cheney Do the Same?
The Republican congresswoman is being portrayed as a traitor to her party. I know exactly how that feels.
May 10, 2021
Natalie Shure
Nothing Exposes the GOP’s Cruelty More Than Its War on Medicaid Expansion
Wherever they hold power, Republicans work in lockstep to deny their constituents life-saving health care.
May 7, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why the GOP Is Backing Elise Stefanik in Her War Against Liz Cheney
It’s not Stefanik’s record that matters. It’s her devotion to Donald Trump.
May 7, 2021
Bruce Bartlett
It Took the Democrats Half a Century to Rediscover Trickle-Up Economics
While Republicans cling to trickle-down delusions, Biden is reviving a philosophy of growth that the party hasn’t embraced since LBJ.
May 7, 2021
Peter Stone
How America Became the Money Laundering Capital of the World
The U.S. is the venue of choice for cartels and kleptocrats. Now lawmakers want to use an agency called FinCEN to do something about it.
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