The Rebirth of a Nation
Of all the lies perpetrated by the Trump/Vance campaign this election season, the one about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs seems to have...
The Ominous Return of Jed Bartlet
This September marked 25 years since the debut of Aaron Sorkin’s hugely popular NBC series, “The West Wing.” The anniversary’s arrival in the middle...
The Wonks Who Refuse to Apologize for NAFTA
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack.
In this recent appearance on Ezra Klein’s podcast, Harvard economist and Obama admin enforcer of neoliberal consensus Jason Furman...
Letter From Florida: Nowhere Left to Hide
We tend to forget about natural disasters that happen in places where we don’t live or want to vacation. But three years ago, a...
A Debate Between Populisms
JD Vance and Tim Walz will meet each other on a debate stage in New York City tomorrow night representing two very different types...
The Militarization of Higher Education
The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into...