Stop Panicking About Joe Biden

Planned Parenthood Is the Real Star of Never Rarely Sometimes Always

How Hydroxychloroquine Became Conservative Media’s Coronavirus Miracle Drug

Bernie Sanders’s Gift to the Democratic Party

Hope—sometimes desperate hope—sustains all presidential campaigns. Even when a candidate withdraws in the face of daunting electoral odds, as...

Don’t Mourn. Organize.

On the day of the Iowa caucuses in February, the now disgraced and retired MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews made a remark about Bernie Sanders’s chances...

Gig-Working Through the Apocalypse

The Amateurs and Yes-Men in Trump’s Army of Judges

Don’t Look For Patient Zeros

Does Big Oil Need Big Government to Survive?

The Brands Feel Your Pain

Last week, the famously stoic Anna Wintour said she “broke down” upon hearing from her friend Ralph Lauren, the designer and businessman worth...

The Shock Doctrine Came for Bail Reform

Drag Trump Over the Coals

Congress is out of session and out of town until late April, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to exact a mounting death toll and inflict...

How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court

For 230 years, the Supreme Court of the United States has been a political institution, but only rarely a partisan one. More than a century ago,...

Karl Marx’s Prophetic Longing

Karl Marx was born more than two centuries ago, in 1818, and, given the enormous impact of his ideas, it should hardly surprise us that we are...

Could the Coronavirus End Jair Bolsonaro’s Presidency?

Brazil’s first known fatality was a 63-year-old housekeeper named Cleonice Gonçalves whose boss contracted Covid-19 in February while on vacation...

In The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel Finally Takes Cromwell to the Block

Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy—Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and now The Mirror and the Light—concerns the rule of Henry VIII, but...

Bailing Out

The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund opened for business in 2015, a heady time for criminal justice reform. The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and...

The Vanishing Public Square

As the Great Pandemic takes hold of our world and forces all of us to separate ourselves from our closest family and friends, does politics become...

On Being White and Broke in America

I’m what one therapist called a “ class-straddler,” which I prefer to “class-transitioner,” because the truth is, there’s never not a foot...

The Republican Plot Against Voting Turns Deadly

The coronavirus pandemic has upended primary elections across the country. Most states have moved their remaining elections to late May or...