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Valeria Luiselli’s Impossible Novel
“Perhaps the only way to grant any justice” to the refugees who have died in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, or anywhere on their journey toward a dignified life, Valeria Luiselli wrote in her 2017...
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MSNBC’s Wild Ride
On January 31, Rachel Maddow, the eponymous host of The Rachel Maddow Show, returned from a commercial break. In the previous segment, she had interviewed Betsy Woodruff, a Daily Beast reporter, who...
View ArticleWhen the Cool Uncle Becomes the Creepy Uncle
Not that long ago, “Uncle Joe Biden” was a term of endearment rather than an epithet. “Since 2008, Biden’s reputation as a wise elder has evaporated into the reputation of a cool uncle,” Philip Bump,...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Is the Frontrunner. Obviously.
The race for the Democratic nomination began in earnest over the past couple of weeks, or at least it feels that way. After flirting with a run for months, Beto O’Rourke finally made his move by...
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Why Thousands of Colombians Are Blocking the Pan-American Highway
The air is almost opaque from tear gas, lingering like heavy, burning perfume. Every few minutes, a warning shout echoes from up the highway—“Corre!” (“Run!”)—sending a cascade of people fleeing from...
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Never Sorry
In England, listeners Start the Week with the BBC radio program of that name, a superior chat show about new books and whatnot. On Monday, June 9, 1997, one of the guests was Eric Hobsbawm, who was by...
View ArticleIs Mexico on the Brink of a Labor Revolution?
On a Wednesday afternoon in late March, dozens of striking metalworkers gathered outside the gates of a steel factory three miles south of the Texas border. “Get out corrupt unions!” a banner read. The...
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It’s Not Just Pork: Trump Is Also Letting Nuclear Plants Regulate Their Own...
Nobody wants to deal with salmonella poisoning. Not you, not me, and certainly not the pork industry. Companies know that if their meat is contaminated with the disease-causing bacteria, they might...
View ArticleJerry Nadler Was Born to Battle Trump
Jerry Nadler and Donald Trump have a history. As Michael Daly has recounted in The Daily Beast, Trump approached Nadler in the 1980s, when Nadler was still a state assemblyman, and asked to build a...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Isn’t Scared of Fox News. Why Is the Democratic Party?
Howard Schultz has it all figured out. The real problem with Democrats is that they don’t reach out to the other side. (This, incidentally, is also the real problem with Republicans.) So Schultz is...
View ArticleThe Everyday Brutality of America’s Prisons
Earlier this week, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division released a summary of its findings on the state of Alabama’s prisons. The accounts are stomach-churning: The New York Times noted that...
View ArticleThe Green New Deal Fan on Fox News Wasn’t a Random Diner. He’s a Climate...
It is well known that President Donald Trump likes to watch Fox & Friends every morning. So it is likely that the commander-in-chief was watching Thursday when a young man at a diner in Riverside,...
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Top Billing
On a spring evening in 1955, Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse met for the first time. She was the bigger star of the two, but technically he held much of the power. She was a famous Broadway dancer and...
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Blood Money
There’s a museum in East Jakarta that enshrines a toxic historical fantasy. Of course, all nations whitewash their bloody histories in the course of creating a heroic narrative about their stirring...
View ArticleThe Final Battle in Big Tech’s War to Dominate Your World
Bellum omnium contra omnes is Latin for “the war of all against all.” Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Hobbes used the phrase to describe the natural state of man in the absence of governmental...
View ArticleCentury Plants
It’s hard to saywhether we would have slept lesseasy in that rented room,knowing that past the window’sscratched glaucoma,the empty lot full of sand,they were waking—would wake—from thirty-years,these...
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In which the studio grows L-shaped, with an alcove for the bed, you modest dream, in which the railroad widens sideways, new door a sudden wing ought to invade the brownstone next door, but that...
View ArticleThe Stephen Miller Presidency
Stephen Miller is winning. In recent days, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser for policy has overseen a purge of officials who were seen as insufficiently extreme on immigration. Homeland Security...
View ArticleWill John Roberts Let Trump Hide His Tax Returns Forever?
President Donald Trump really doesn’t want you to know what’s in his tax returns. During the 2016 campaign, he broke with 40 years of tradition by refusing to make them public. (He insisted they were...
View ArticleIs Belarus Putin’s Next Land Grab?
Last summer, in a small town overlooking the Russian border, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a stark and pointed pronouncement. “If we don’t survive these years—if we fail,” he said, “it...
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