Tag: politics

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Go Down, Cuomo

Ross Barkan

April 16, 2020

Before coronavirus rendered New York a dystopia, September 11 was supposed to be the defining cataclysm of our lifetimes. The Boomers got JFK, and we got two planes obliterating the Twin Towers live on television. Nearly three thousand died in the 2001 terrorist attacks and out ...

Storyline Fever

James Pogue

February 20, 2020

This election is all about asking how enamored of capitalism Americans really are.

We Can’t Go on like This

Ross Barkan

August 15, 2019

The Mike Gravel presidential campaign, which shut down last week, will probably be remembered as a curiosity singular to the late 2010s, when American politics spun out of orbit for good, and the solemn, useless rules of the spectacle were discarded. The campaign, often and ...

Andrew Yang’s War on Normal People

Adam Simpson

June 24, 2019

Yang is Silicon Valley’s answer to populism—and his UBI proposal is pure grift.

The “Free Speech” Cheat

Shane Burley

May 03, 2019

College Student Senate chambers are not historically hotbeds of nationwide controversy, but Turning Point USA is set to rewrite the rules of campus politics. The ultra-conservative student group, which could easily be labeled “the youth wing” of Trump Republicanism, has ...

The Great Untaxed

Whitney Curry Wimbish

April 12, 2019

The Republican tax bill is now kicking in—and the rich are making off like bandits

In the Kingdom of Mitch

Dave Denison

March 12, 2019

What comes after McConnellism?

Becoming Unbecoming

Rafia Zakaria

January 30, 2019

How the role of First Lady diminishes strong and ambitious women.

HyperNovelization

Olivia Parkes

January 30, 2019

Olga Slavnikova’s "The Man Who Couldn’t Die" and the post-Soviet reality deficit.

Solutionism for Students

Richard A. Greenwald

November 15, 2018

The authors of "The Coddling of the American Mind" diagnose a generation of students and then offer a cure—mass therapy.

Vigo Shrugged

Rafia Zakaria

November 09, 2018

Indiana Democrat Joe Donnelly ran a textbook centrist campaign. And lost.

Land of Extraction

Sammy Feldblum

November 02, 2018

New Mexico heads into an election that will decide how to handle an oil and gas boom.