Big Banks Cratered the Economy. Now They Swear They’ll Fix It.
In 2005, long before Occupy Wall Street, the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, or Bernie Sanders’s bid for the presidency, Citigroup released a report that outlined...
View Article“Just the Hint of Something Coming Here Terrorizes You”
On September 4, 2017, Hurricane Irma became the first Category 5 hurricane of the season, with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour at its peak. The storm slammed into Cudjoe Key, Florida, as a...
View ArticleHow Corporations Scam Their Shareholders and Screw Over Workers
I recently wrote about the pernicious effect of Milton Friedman’s idea that public corporations should focus exclusively on shareholders, ignoring the interests of other stakeholders including...
View ArticleTrump Lies, and the Media Abides
Whenever I mix up words or forget what I was trying to say, I make fun of myself by saying “words are my craft, you know.” It’s funny because it’s true: I have one job, and it is to use words well,...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Taxes Aren’t Surprising, But They’re Still a Huge Deal
What would it take for a story about Donald Trump to be surprising? This is, after all, someone who has, in the past few days alone, refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power in November and...
View ArticleOur Plutocratic Tax System Was Built for Rich Cheaters
Donald Trump’s previously undisclosed tax records, the subject of so much Democratic speculation since 2016, are finally public, thanks to a New York Times report released over the weekend. It was...
View ArticleThe Amy Coney Barrett Discourse Is a Trap
Poll after poll shows that a clear majority of Americans want the Supreme Court seat once held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be filled after the election. But that didn’t stop President Trump from...
View ArticleThe Elite Sisterhood of Amy Coney Barrett
Sometimes the reason “women’s rights” feel so tenuous is because the question “which women?” is as central as it is overlooked. The threat Amy Coney Barrett would pose to women as a Supreme Court...
View ArticleTrump Is Encouraging Big Pharma’s Worst Instincts
Was ever an October surprise so publicly plotted? President Donald Trump has repeatedly said, despite nearly all evidence to the contrary, that a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 will be available before...
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QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic
From the very first, there were cabals that chose which children would be taken and sacrificed, and harvested their blood for use in secret rituals. The clandestine gathering, the child’s blood...
View ArticleBret Stephens’s Worst Column Yet?
In Bret Stephens’s latest column for The New York Times, he asks the reader to believe two extraordinary things: that he has discovered a secret pool of voters who might hand a surprise win to Donald...
View ArticleThe Right and Wrong Way for Biden to Attack Trump’s Taxes
The bombshell New York Times reporting on Donald Trump’s taxes is perhaps too complex a subject for Joe Biden to use as an easy political attack. For all that led “Trump’s taxes” to become a sort of...
View ArticleWhat a Mess!
Pity the transcriptionists. From its very first minute, the first debate of the 2020 presidential election was off the rails. For 90 minutes, Donald Trump vomited a seemingly endless series of lies and...
View ArticleHe’s Lost Control
No one could have seen it coming: A debate with Donald Trump was a complete disaster. The first showdown between President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden set a breathtaking new low for an...
View ArticleThe Desperation of Donald Trump
Believe it or not, there once was a time when high-minded thinkers believed that presidential debates would elevate the tenor and add substance to presidential campaigns.Needless to say, these 1960s...
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The Cozy Relationship Between Project Veritas and the Proud Boys
For Project Veritas, the 2020 Democratic primaries offered an embarrassment of riches. A historically large field meant plenty of targets against which James O’Keefe’s journalism-cosplay organization...
View ArticleIvanka Trump’s Starring Role in Her Father’s Financial Troubles
For four years, Donald Trump’s tax returns have been the white whale of political journalists and the most sought-after material of any presidency this side of Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes....
View ArticleThe Right Is Blaming Chris Wallace for Trump’s Terrible Debate Performance
Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s disastrous performance in Tuesday’s presidential debate? The easy answer is the person who is to blame for most things: Trump himself. Both Trump’s supporters...
View ArticleTrump Never Answered the Debate’s Most Important Question
Joe Biden’s best answer during Tuesday’s debate was for a question that shouldn’t have to be posed. “How confident should we be that this will be a fair election, and what are you prepared to do over...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky Does Not Think the Planet Is Doomed (Yet)
This summer saw some of the worst wildfires in recorded history. Over 3.7 million acres of land burned in California alone, leading a UCLA climate scientist to declare, “We’ve broken almost every...
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