Diagnosing the Morales Campaign Meltdown

It all sounds like a bad family therapy session. What does the psychiatric literature have to say?

Alexis Grenell

The Working Families Party’s Amazing Disappearing Ballot Line

Thanks to the city’s notoriously incompetent Board of Elections, when New Yorkers go to the polls in November, the WFP will not be on the ballot.

Ross Barkan

Milley Earns His Stars

Calvin Trillin

Like JFK, Biden Has Good Reason to Be Wary of the Military

In the 1960s, anti-communism provided an entry point for the far right. Today, it’s opposition to anti-racism.

Jeet Heer

3 Things Biden Can Do Right Now to Stop Covid and Save Lives

Unless the president changes course, and confronts Big Pharma, the past six months will indelibly tarnish his legacy.

Gregg Gonsalves

This New Law Would Be Good for Growers, Bad for Farmworkers

The bill cements in place the existing deep poverty in farmworker communities, and makes it much more difficult for farmworkers to organize.

David Bacon

The Human Costs of the Pandemic Olympics

The Tokyo Games should be a warning to potential Olympic hosts everywhere.

Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

Our ‘Racial Reckoning’ Is Turning Out to Be a White Lie

Black demands for full citizenship are being treated as entitlement and calls for racial accountability redefined as white persecution.

Kali Holloway

Kim Jong Un Drops Some Weight

Calvin Trillin

Fauci’s Truths and Half-Truths About Gain-of-Function Research

As recently as 2018, Fauci celebrated the lifting of the “pause” on such research. With government in “upstream” control of funding, guidance, and publications, he argued, what could go wrong?

David Bromwich