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Complicity, Not Tyranny

Yasmin Nair

May 18, 2017

The anger over Szala's op-ed is like the anger over Trump: it allows us to forget that what’s rotten is an entire system.

Trump, Pumped and Dumped

Max B. Sawicky

May 17, 2017

As the tally of Donald Trump’s high and low crimes and misdemeanors grows, discussion of his removal tends to run aground when the subject of impeachment comes up. His support in the Congress is said to be too deep. You need a majority of votes in the House to impeach, and ...

The Gospel According to Mitch

Maximillian Alvarez

May 16, 2017

“And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”                        —Luke 16:15   It will surprise no one to hear that ...

I’m Sticking with My President

Rick Perlstein

May 10, 2017

During Watergate, Nixon’s diehard defenders in the party were looked upon as clowns.

Missing Perspectives

Astra Taylor

May 10, 2017

Links from YouTubers in the refugee diaspora.

A Waiting Room of One’s Own

Gillian Terzis

May 08, 2017

Forward, the startup touted by Bloomberg as “The Doctor’s Office of the Future,” seems oddly squeamish about the business it’s in.

Robin Triumphant

Arthur Goldhammer

May 08, 2017

The 66 percent of the French who voted for Macron in the grand finale still have no idea who he really is.

Bargaining For the Common Good

Sarah Jaffe

May 05, 2017

"Who are the individual people that are funding Islamophobia and who are the corporations that are profiting from it?"

How to Settle Down with Dystopia

Niela Orr

May 05, 2017

Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale steeps the viewer in the slow-mo accretion of disaster.

Operation Mensch

Emmett Rensin

May 02, 2017

How could somebody as doggedly patriotic as recent American citizen Louise Mensch be a secret agent of the Kremlin?

Keeping Hope Alive

David V. Johnson

May 02, 2017

Obama’s Wall Street payday isn’t a mistake. It burnishes the centrist credentials of his brand of Democratic politics with the donor class.

Big-League Bluster

Marissa Gemma,  Arielle Zibrak

April 28, 2017

The persistent overuse of adjectives signals the speaker’s doubt that they have something to say in the first place.