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July 14, 2020
Magazine
Moira Weigel
The Pioneers of the Misinformation Industry
How thwarted Hollywood ambitions, Silicon Valley hubris, and a long war on objectivity gave rise to Drudge, Breitbart, and other right-wing media insurgents
July 13, 2020
Magazine
Daniel Immerwahr
The Great Germ War Cover-Up
When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.
July 10, 2020
Magazine
Jenny Zhang
your whole body is slanted
July 10, 2020
Magazine
David Keplinger
The Puppet Tiger Masculinity Is
July 10, 2020
Magazine
Dana Levin
No
July 2, 2020
Magazine
Lidija Haas
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Ingenious Families
“The Truth” builds subtly on the ambitious drama of “Shoplifters.”
June 29, 2020
Magazine
Adolph Reed Jr.
The Surprising Cross-Racial Saga of Modern Wealth Inequality
Why the “racial wealth gap” fails to explain economic inequality in black and white America
June 23, 2020
Magazine
Rumaan Alam
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Pursuit of Disgust
Why her new novel, “Death in Her Hands,” strives to be gross
June 22, 2020
Magazine
Kathryn Joyce
No Money, No Lawyer, No Justice
The vast, hidden inequities of the civil legal system
June 22, 2020
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
The Myopic Fantasy of Returning to “Normal”
Pre-lockdown life had its charms, but the pandemic has shown us how bad things really were.
June 18, 2020
Magazine
Lee Drutman
How Democracy Dies at the Ballot Box
Getting elections right in the face of a pandemic—and a partisan meltdown
June 18, 2020
Magazine
Win McCormack
Republican Phantasmagoria
The deep roots of today’s anti-Progressive revolt
June 16, 2020
Magazine
Jason Linkins
Don’t Just Save the Postal Service. Reinvent It.
The USPS could be the government at its best, if politicians gave it a chance.
June 15, 2020
Magazine
Ari Schulman
The Coronavirus and the Right’s Scientific Counterrevolution
How a new class of outsider experts is exploiting institutional failures and destabilizing knowledge
June 15, 2020
Magazine
Jake Bittle
Why Conservatives Believe a Chinese Lab Created the Coronavirus
The conspiracy theory sprung from an amateur YouTube video. Then, the National Review picked it up.
June 10, 2020
Magazine
Walter Shapiro
Mitch McConnell Is No Genius
He still supports Trump and worships campaign donors. It may cost Republicans their Senate majority.
June 10, 2020
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Jeff Bezos
June 9, 2020
Magazine
David Roth
American Psycho
Jared Kushner—climber, sycophant, snob—is the perfect avatar of elite incompetence for our times.
June 9, 2020
Magazine
Kim Phillips-Fein
The Lost Rebellious Spirit of Keynes
The economist’s ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more radical than that.
June 8, 2020
Magazine
Matt Ford
Bill Barr’s Invisible Crusade
Trump’s attorney general sees himself as a grand cultural inquisitor.
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