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Power
June 12, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Stable Genius Trump Pitches Idiotic Idea on Bitcoin Mining
Does Donald Trump actually understand how cryptocurrency works?
December 12, 2023
Ella Sherman
Watch Matt Gaetz Get Trolled With “Underage Sex Award” at Republican Event
The Florida representative was caught off guard when he appeared onstage.
February 14, 2023
Walter Shapiro
Biden’s Ivy League Problem
For all the posturing as Amtrak Joe, the president has fallen into the same elite trap that has captured our political system.
December 6, 2021
Magazine
Ian Beacock
The Men Who Were Mistaken for Gods
Hernan Cortes, Captain Cook, and Prince Philip were each worshiped as deities—with very different consequences.
April 1, 2021
Kiran Misra
Mass Incarceration Draws Its Own Maps and Creates a Country in Its Image
Prison gerrymandering, in which incarcerated people are designated as residents of the areas where a prison or jail is located, is a system of strategic disenfranchisement.
January 26, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Leon Black and the American Tradition of Impunity
The private equity billionaire, pressured into retirement this week, gave $158 million to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Why doesn’t it matter more?
March 6, 2020
Matt Ford
What Elizabeth Warren Got Right
The vanquished Democratic presidential candidate understands power better than any of her rivals.
March 20, 2017
Michelle Dean
The Art of Paying Attention
Why we need critics to think about power and how it works.
November 26, 2014
Rebecca Traister
This Is What Power Looks Like
The past few weeks have been a depressing lesson in how to get away with bad behavior
October 10, 2014
Grayson Perry
The Straight, White, Middle-Class Man Needs to Be Dethroned
September 24, 2014
Eric Thurm
What the Sex in 'Masters of Sex' Really Means
This is a show that has more of a lust for questions than for answers
August 12, 2009
Andrew Rice
Doubt
June 3, 1991
James Q. Wilson
The Government Gap
April 7, 1979
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