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May 2021
May 10, 2021
Magazine
Charlie Savage
The Rise of Private Spies
What happens when online investigators and detectives-for-hire take on intelligence work?
April 30, 2021
Magazine
Paul Alexander
Proctoring a computer typing exam in an all-boys high school, 1981
April 30, 2021
Magazine
Brian Russell
I am making a desert
April 27, 2021
Magazine
Adolph Reed Jr.
How Austerity Destroyed the Public Good
The decades-long war on government has left struggling Americans to fend for themselves.
April 26, 2021
Magazine
Matt Ford
The Mystery of Merrick Garland
Biden’s attorney general is neither an ideologue nor a partisan, but a consensus-builder. How will he wield his power in this historic, politically charged moment?
April 23, 2021
Magazine
Jake Bittle
Ben Shapiro Goes Trolling in Hollywood
The conservative gadfly’s new film studio is a bid to monetize the battle against cancel culture.
April 22, 2021
Magazine
Monica Potts
The Crisis in Home Care
The way we look after the elderly in this country is broken. But is funneling money into home care enough to solve the problem?
April 20, 2021
Magazine
Jacob Silverman
Cryptocurrencies Are the Next Frontier for the Surveillance State
Countries are launching digital currencies to rival Bitcoin—and opening up new ways to snoop on their citizens in the process.
April 19, 2021
Magazine
Ryann Liebenthal
The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
April 16, 2021
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
The Problem With Trusting “the Science”
Politicians like Chris Christie have weaponized science to serve their agendas.
April 15, 2021
Magazine
Matthew Sitman
Whither the Religious Left?
Left-leaning people of faith will never be reliable allies of the Democratic Party, nor will the party reliably offer them a comfortable home. But their fortunes are linked.
April 14, 2021
Magazine
Evan Kindley
How Americans Lost Their Fervor for Freedom
Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal.
April 12, 2021
Magazine
Rumaan Alam
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Deceptively Simple Story of AI
Why does “Klara and the Sun” serve up its big questions so explicitly?
April 12, 2021
Magazine
Eileen Myles
April
April 7, 2021
Magazine
Walter Shapiro
How Trump Wrecked the Conservative Money Machine
As corporate donations to the GOP decline, establishment Republicans are struggling to raise money, and extremists are raking in small donations. That just might give Democrats the edge in 2022.
April 6, 2021
Magazine
Samanth Subramanian
The Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s Universe
Why did “A Brief History of Time” make its author the most famous scientist in the world?
April 5, 2021
Magazine
Matt Labash
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Eric Metaxas
An Epic Debate on Trump and True Evangelicalism
In which journalist Matt Labash (a Never Trumper) and radio host Eric Metaxas (a Trump supporter) agree to disagree
April 2, 2021
Magazine
Sarah Leonard
How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
The immense power of Jeff Bezos’s empire reveals a country that has been falling apart for quite some time.
April 2, 2021
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Rupert Murdoch
The media mogul has been encouraging people to get the Covid vaccine—even as his networks push skepticism about its efficacy.
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