As of Wednesday morning, Oregon Democrat Kurt Schrader, who has represented the Beaver State’s 5th district since 2009, is trailing his progressive primary opponent, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. As The New Republic’s Daniel Strauss reported last w...

This week, the federal government is moving to address the nationwide infant formula shortage that has deepened to dire levels in recent weeks, threatening the well-being of millions of children. The fixes on offer, while late in arriving,...

When you’re in Disney World, lost in the eerily self-contained universe of its vast theme parks, it can be hard to see that you’re also in the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a special governance zone that gives the Walt Disney Company po...

The Democrats, it seems, are in big trouble. With the midterms less than six months away, the party is deeply unpopular. Polling released by NBC on Monday found its favorability rating was underwater by 19 points—eight points worse than the...

Does this scenario sound familiar? The people living around the Baltic Sea fear their powerful neighbor. They understand the value of their territory and worry about being overrun by the military colossus in their midst.Except the country i...

Before attending a conference for climate deniers a few years back, I received two pieces of advice from researchers who frequent that circuit: first, that most of what’s said at climate denial events is projection, and second, that there’s...

Barring a significant upset, John Fetterman will become the Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat on Tuesday. The hulking Pennsylvania lieutenant governor, known for his towering stature at six foot, eight inches and pencha...

One of the most horrific things about the lengthy, vile manifesto posted online by the gunman who murdered 10 people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, is just how familiar this script has become. Not so long ago, the “great replacement...

Look: I know the score. I’ve been in this hot take game longenough to identify with the relentless quest to snatch up a zeitgeisty news pegin order to try to wedge it neatly into the broader cultural narratives dujour—the better to feed...

Is self-immolation protest or pathology? This is the questionweighing on everyone who knew Wynn Bruce, the Colorado man who set himself on fire outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Earth Day, or who has heardhis story in the weeks since.Bruc...

Brynn Tannehill is a writer, LGBTQ activist, and author of 2021’s American Fascism: How the GOP Is Subverting Democracy. A veteran of the U.S. Navy who flew helicopters and patrol aircraft, Tannehill has been a commentator on American polit...

If you lived in Washington DC during the Trump years and felt any attachment to the place, you may have experienced, as I did, a double-take every time you walked along Pennsylvania Avenue past the Old Post Office and saw emblazoned in fron...

In March 2016, when asked for the specifics of his proposal to outlaw abortion, at an MSNBC town hall, then-candidate Donald Trump dodged: “This presidential election is going to be very important,” he said, “because when you say what’s the...

On December 21, 2000, shortly before leaving office, President Bill Clinton signed the New Markets Tax Credit Program into law, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2001. He called it “the most significant effort ever to help h...

Last week, President Joe Biden met with several labor organizers, some fresh from offering testimony on Capitol Hill, in the Oval Office. The confab, put together by Vice President Kamala Harris, was set up so that the president and Labor S...

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association of Publishers on Monday, AAP president and CEO Maria Pallante addressed what may be the most pressing issue facing publishers in 2022. It “would hardly be a meeting of publishers,”...

John Eastman is often scorned as a villain of the 2020 election, and for good reason. He played an instrumental role in developing the legal theories behind former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election. But Eastman is als...

Hope is important, now more than ever. I don’t suggest that wecan or should be blindly optimistic. Far from it. Our very democracy and ourability to solve the problems all our people face is in grave danger. But it isnot inevitable. We n...

With every new inflation report, the Biden administration seems to get even more laser-focused on a single goal: making gas cheaper. Its strategy so far has been a little baffling, though—as is its explanation for why prices are high. Somet...

Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux’s very short, unaccountably gripping 1991 book about her total absorption in an affair with a married Russian diplomat, begins by analyzing the “shattering” experience of seeing a pornographic film on TV for the...

If there’s one term that sums up Republican policy thinking over the past year or so, it’s one-upmanship. At both the state and federal level, GOP elected officials have sought to outdo one another at pursuing their preferred goals on outla...

If you didn’t know better, you’dsay Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader has been running the kind of reelectioncampaign over the past few weeks that would satisfy every corner of theDemocratic Party. If reelected, he’s promised to make a re...

Speculative bubbles have a way of leaving in their wake dozens of discredited economic writers, whose careers after the crash are forever haunted by the enthusiastic pronouncements they made while prices still rose. As John Kenneth Galbrait...

There’s a horrifying scene in Robert Altman’s 1973 adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, in which a ruthless gangster intimidates the detective Philip Marlowe by smashing a Coke bottle against his own girlfriend’s face. “That’s...

On Tuesday, a new retail store joined the recent frenzy of union activity: Workers at a Target in Christiansburg, Virginia, filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.The workers behind the drive at that location hop...