The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill

Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy.

David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler

A Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players

How baseball’s numbers game threatens to strangle the sport.

Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier

Why Is Cory Booker Still Running For President?

Down in the polls, ignored by the media, Booker refuses to quit.

Gene Seymour

Tenderness

Derrick Austin

The Catholic Church at a Crossroads

In their new books, Ross Douthat and James Chappel present two radically different versions of Catholicism’s past and future.

Jan-Werner Müller

The Workers That Built America

A new book puts the black working class at the center of American history.

William P. Jones

The Business of Being Taylor Swift

Her latest album, Lover, has been heralded as a return to form. It also presents an opportunity to understand the pop star’s many contradictions. 

Olivia Horn