Adam Serwer
He is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Cruelty Is the Point. Adam has previously been a recipient of the 2021 Moment Magazine Robert S. Greenberger Journalism award, the 2019 Hillman Prize for opinion journalism, and the 2019 Salute to Excellence Award for commentary from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Don’t Cut Corners on Indicting Trump
Trumpists will portray any indictment as political. Prosecutors can’t let them make that argument persuasively.
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The Atlantic; source: Library of Congress Woke Is Just Another Word for Liberal
What many conservative critics of wokeness actually oppose is the pursuit of equality.
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The Atlantic; sources: Tayfun Coskun / Getty The January 6 Deniers Are Going to Lose
Just look at what happened with the Ku Klux Klan.
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Jon Cherry / Getty Boycott Bans Are an Assault on Free Speech
A court ruling upholding an anti-BDS law in Arkansas sets a dangerous precedent.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Why Is Biden Attacking Democracy?
Supporting self-rule for Washington, D.C., only when it does what you want isn’t supporting self-rule at all.
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Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty The FBI Desperately Wants to Let Trump Off the Hook
He just won’t allow it.
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The Atlantic Why Fox News Lied to Its Viewers
The network’s hosts and leaders knew that Trump had lost the election, but feared the consequences of telling their audience the truth.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’
You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.
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Youssef Loulidi / Fantasista / Getty The Psychological Test of Japan’s Finale
The Samurai Blue’s loss against Croatia showed that scoring penalties is a distinct art.
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Liu Lu / VCG / Getty The Cursed Goal
Belgium’s elimination from the World Cup showed that sometimes, for no apparent reason, the ball just won’t go in.
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Clive Mason / Getty Ghana’s Grudge Match
Twelve years ago, Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez blocked Ghana’s shot at the semifinals with a handball. On Friday, they’ll get a chance to bite back.
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The Atlantic Rebelling Against Trump Is Not the Same as Rebelling Against Trumpism
Even if Trump himself departs the scene, conservative demand for his approach to politics will remain.
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Alessandro Sabattini / Getty The Sport of Short Kings
Soccer is where mini monarchs reign supreme.
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Lucasfilm Ltd / Disney+ Star Wars Gets Political
But not in the way you might think.
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Michelle McLoughlin / Reuters The Martyrdom of Alex Jones
Right-wing anger over a defamation judgment reflects disgust at seeing the rules applied to them.
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Matt York / AP Deleting the Right to Record the Police
An Arizona law seeks to solve the problem of police misconduct by preventing anyone from documenting it.
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Getty; The Atlantic Fear of a Black Hobbit
The demand to keep politics out of art is too often a demand for art to conform to conservative politics.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Right to Free Speech Is Not the Right to Monologue
The attack on Salman Rushdie was not a product of modern social-justice discourse.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Right-Wing War on Free Speech Could Backfire
Progressives aren’t the only ones who need free-speech protections.
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Mark Thiessen / AP Republicans Have Only Themselves to Blame for Their Alaskan Defeat
For Trumpists, no system that results in a Republican loss can be considered legitimate.
