Could America’s Founders Have Imagined This?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday invoked the nation’s birth in defending her decision to delay sending impeachment articles to the Senate. “Our Founders, when they wrote the Constitution, they...
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The Hell That Was Health Care Reform
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.In 2007, the next president of the United...
View ArticleRupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade
Rupi Kaur has published two books: 2015’s Milk and Honey, 2017’s The Sun and Her Flowers. Her epigrammatic verse is spare, the offspring of classical aphorism (if you’re feeling generous) and the...
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The Collapse of Neoliberalism
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.With the 2008 financial crash and the Great...
View ArticleBoeing Axes CEO as Company Hits New Heights of Self-Denial
Merry Christmas, Boeing shareholders: Your lame-duck CEO Dennis Muilenburg has been put out of his lucrative misery, to be replaced by board chairman David Calhoun, late of the glorious institutions...
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The Decade When Republicans Stole the States
Welcome to The Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.In September 2010, Jon Stewart, then the...
View ArticleCats Got Your Tongue
You’ve already heard that Cats is not very good. People will still see it because they love to be in on the joke. Perfect films—Bicycle Thieves, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Safe, Short Cuts—are surely not...
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How the Democratic Party Learned to Wage Class Warfare
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.It may have begun with Lehman Brothers, the...
View ArticleThe Reenactment
What mattered in early wars was the cavalry marching through deep muck, the fife & drums,stern ravens, words called out across small, stagnant ponds. They tell us every landscape longs to be a...
View ArticleA Rebirth of Communal Liberty?
The first paper I wrote in a college political science course addressed the question of whether the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau—with his concept of fusing the individual wills of...
View ArticleThe Suffrages
Freedom doesn’t think on us.It’s nota god, it’s a wordwe further(a word we once tore downforests to tell)...
View ArticleDandelion
a patch of dandelions in their seedhead prime each calls out to be picked a puff of breath or two will launch their wish and oursbut the artist doesn’t obey instinctshe plucks a hopeful head and...
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The Kids Profiling Every Single Child Killed by Guns
When Madison Hahamy’s editor assigned her to write a profile of a 16-year-old shooting victim named David A. Thomas, she was stumped for almost a year. Her subject presented many obstacles to...
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The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.Appearing at a San Francisco comedy festival...
View ArticleThe Passion of Greta Thunberg
I didn’t feel good about asking Greta Thunberg for an interview. She’s a kid still; stardom rots the soul; and the spotlight is clearly torture to her—a torture she has chosen freely, but a torture all...
View ArticleWhen “Biology” Becomes a Cover for Anti-Trans Bigotry
Earlier this month, a British employment judge ruled that a researcher’s anti-trans views did not constitute what’s called a protected philosophical belief under the nation’s Equality Act, which meant...
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A Decade of Legal Warfare Has Warped America’s Future
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.It’s hard to keep track of all the lawsuits...
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My Own Private Decade From Hell
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.A decade ago, I was in hell; now I’m on my...
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The Death of the Good Internet Was an Inside Job
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.I remember the exact moment when the...
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The Rise of the Permanent Protest
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.Almost immediately after one of the decade’s...
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