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June 10, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Disappearing Backlash to Black Lives Matter
Americans are slowly, but surely, growing tired of broad societal injustices—and less susceptible to the right’s mechanisms of racial resentment.
June 10, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Real Snowflakes on the Op-Ed Page
Why are critics of cancel culture so scared of criticism?
June 10, 2020
R.E. Hawley
Don’t Support
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New York Times
Why you should unsubscribe from the paper of record—and put that money where it’s needed most.
June 10, 2020
John Patrick Leary
Freeing Protest From the Language Police
Cops and media elites have long enforced a demand for peaceful protest, without any regard for what those words mean.
June 7, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Tom Cotton and the Elite Media’s Dalliance With Illiberalism
How the elimination of constitutional rights became an irresistible argument in the world of mainstream ideas.
June 5, 2020
Alex Shephard
Rethinking the Press’s Relationship With Police
For too long, media outlets have treated cops with credulity and protesters with skepticism. That’s all changing.
June 5, 2020
Peter Manseau
The Christian Martyrdom Movement Ascends to the White House
A former professor of Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s new press secretary, explores her enduring obsession with religious persecution and death.
June 4, 2020
Libby Watson
At
The New York Times,
an Uprising Over James Bennet’s Incompetence
The paper’s staff is in an incandescent rage over the decision to publish an op-ed calling for the violent disruption of First Amendment rights.
June 3, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Are You Really Surprised by Our Authoritarian President?
For many of his mainstream critics, Trump is forever on the verge of finally going too far.
June 1, 2020
Libby Watson
The Political Elites’ Pointless Calls for More Leadership
If our ex-presidents couldn’t solve America’s problems while they were in office, what good are they in this current crisis?
June 1, 2020
Nick Martin
Tear Gas Doesn’t Deploy Itself
Mainstream press coverage of state violence tends to frame it as if it happened by magic.
June 1, 2020
Haley Mlotek
Barbara Ehrenreich Still Wants to Be Surprised
“My hope for all readers is that they will shut the book and run out and protest. That’s what I always expect people to do. They seldom do it.”
May 25, 2020
Alex Shephard
Is Email the Future of Journalism?
With the industry in free fall, new models are emerging.
May 19, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Ronan Farrow Is Not a “Resistance” Journalist
Ben Smith’s explosive column in The New York Times seizes on the reporter’s alleged lack of rigor, but mistakes his target for a movement.
May 15, 2020
Alex Shephard
Obamagate Is the Ultimate Republican Non-Scandal
Donald Trump says his predecessor committed the “greatest crime in American political history.” So why can’t he explain what it is?
May 9, 2020
Libby Watson
The Depressing Future of the #MeToo Movement
The radical promise of “Believe Women” has been an unintended casualty of the quickly fading Biden sexual misconduct controversy.
May 7, 2020
Samer Kalaf
The Placekicker With the Far-Right Tattoo
The brief travails of a recent NFL draftee demonstrate the awesome power of white racial innocence.
May 6, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Bipartisanship Won’t Save Us
Politicians and pundits are always lamenting the division in Washington. Well, Congress came together to address the coronavirus crisis—and failed.
May 1, 2020
David Roth
The Cancer in the Camera Lens
Far from shining a curative light on the Trump administration, the media has become engulfed by his empire of stupidity.
April 30, 2020
Alex Shephard
Turns Out Andrew Cuomo Isn’t America’s Governor After All
Under pressure for his coronavirus response, the former media darling of the crisis is sounding a bit like Donald Trump.
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