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July 8, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Reproductive Coercion Wins at the Supreme Court
Conservatives have prevailed in an effort to deny people bodily autonomy. That’s always been their fight.
July 8, 2020
Felipe De La Hoz
Trump’s Reopening Agenda Is Upending International Students’ Futures
“Is there going to be an injunction? Do we have months to years, or are we packing up right now?”
July 8, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The Republicans Take America on a Death March
Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Betsy DeVos are willing to sacrifice thousands of American lives for nothing more than political points.
July 8, 2020
Matt Ford
The Electoral College Is an American Humiliation
If the Supreme Court no longer believes the lie that’s sustained this hastily concocted relic from our nation’s founding, why should anyone?
July 8, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Problem With Yascha Mounk’s Persuasion
His new platform aims “to defend free speech and free inquiry against all its enemies.” But is it really just obsessed with cancel culture?
July 7, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Impossible Math of the Pandemic
Parents are working while their kids stay home from school. Grocery budgets are thin. Rents are due. This was never sustainable.
July 7, 2020
Libby Watson
The Wrong Way to Grapple With a Public Health Crisis
The New York Times has either made a grave category error or they’ve given up on the idea of solving America’s health insurance problem.
July 7, 2020
Casey Michel
The Left’s Deafening Silence on China’s Ethnic Cleansing
Anti-imperialist leftists can’t afford to cede this issue to centrist Democrats and the Trumpist right.
July 6, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism
The critics of progressive identity politics have got it all wrong: They’re the illiberal ones.
July 6, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
Woodrow Wilson Was Even More Racist Than You Thought
Princeton University could have disassociated itself from the former president a long time ago.
July 3, 2020
Aderson Bellegarde François
What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls
The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.
July 3, 2020
J.C. Pan
Conservative Austerity Created the Mask Wars
Decades of attacks on public programs have led us to a point where we’re arguing about personal responsibility in the midst of a pandemic.
July 2, 2020
Timothy Noah
The Democrats’ Dumb Idea to Cut Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
This week’s job numbers demonstrate that this is no time to compromise with Mitch McConnell.
July 2, 2020
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Extraordinary Gift for Self-Sabotage
The president’s latest futile attempt to block a critical tell-all book proves that he was never the political genius the media made him out to be.
July 2, 2020
Jack Shuler
Can the White People of Small-Town America Get Behind the Movement for Black Lives?
The George Floyd protests have spread to the heavily white areas of rural Ohio. Only time will tell whether the alliance will last.
July 2, 2020
Matt Ford
Elena Kagan’s Fiery Defense of the Administrative State
The justice’s dissent in a little-regarded case strikes an important blow against the right’s efforts to decimate the federal government.
July 1, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Viral Impotency of the Lincoln Project
Founded by anti-Trump Republicans, the new PAC is getting lots of attention. But is it achieving anything?
July 1, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats’ New Climate Plan Is Weirdly Isolationist
A new 538-page report adopts an America First strategy to solve a global problem.
June 30, 2020
Libby Watson
Big Pharma’s Got a Brand New Coronavirus Grift
America’s health care system is doing what it does best: rigging the game to extract maximum profits from an ongoing catastrophe.
June 30, 2020
J.C. Pan
Democrats Can’t Quit Their Addiction to Big-Money Donors
The urgency of beating Trump in November has once again set campaign finance reform on the back burner.
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