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December 22, 2022
Kate Aronoff
The USPS Could Be Transformative for Decarbonizing America—if Only It Weren’t Run by Louis DeJoy
The agency’s plan to eventually replace its gas-guzzling fleet with electric vehicles is good news, but so much more would be possible if Biden would take steps to expel the Trump appointee.
June 4, 2021
Timothy Noah
Republicans Are Accidentally Suppressing Their Own Voters
Donald Trump’s weird obsession with mail-in voting is doing collateral damage to GOP lawmakers’ illiberal designs.
February 12, 2021
Alex Pareene
Fire Louis DeJoy
It wouldn’t be simple for Joe Biden to oust the postmaster general, but it’s hardly as impossible as the press is making it out to be.
December 14, 2020
Rachel M. Cohen
The Desperate Last Days of Local News
From billionaire dilettantes to pension funds, profit-seeking just isn’t compatible with the media’s core democratic functions.
September 21, 2020
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Matt Ford
The Man Who Is Determined to Stop Trump From Rigging the Election
Democratic lawyer Marc Elias is leading the fight to preserve the integrity of the ballot.
September 18, 2020
Megan Evershed
The Psychological Perks of Joining a Revolution
“Long Live the Post Horn!”—the latest novel by Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth—is an acidic portrait of one woman’s fight to save the postal service.
August 18, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The World’s Dumbest Authoritarian
Most dictators rig elections to win. With his Postal Service gambit, Trump merely wants everybody to lose with him.
August 17, 2020
Libby Watson
Democrats Are So Worried About the Postal Service That They Might Finally Do Something
Too bad they don’t see similar urgency in the millions of unemployed Americans who face another week without $600 in assistance.
August 5, 2020
Matt Ford
The Republicans’ Crimes Against Democracy
Some politicos are fretting about post-election chaos. What about the pre-election chaos that Trump and his allies are creating right now?
June 16, 2020
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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.
May 7, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Reimagining the Post-Covid Economy
Six ideas for how to rebuild after the pandemic
December 5, 2018
David Dayen
The Biggest Threat in the Postal Report Is to Rural Americans, Not Amazon
The Trump task force's recommendations would undermine the agency's mission to bind the country together.
March 10, 2014
Alec MacGillis
The Postal Service Outsources Itself to a Company Doing Almost as Badly as the Postal Service
January 28, 2014
David Dayen
The Post Office Should Just Become a Bank
How Obama can save USPS and ding check-cashing joints
October 15, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
Take the World War II Memorial—Please!
When the government reopens, shut this stuff down
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