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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Mark Peterson / Redux Don’t Forget That 43 Senate Republicans Let Trump Get Away With It
The former president attempted to violently overthrow the government of the United States, and his party ensured that he would face no consequences for doing so.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is
The Supreme Court majority’s undead constitutionalism is transforming right-wing media tropes into law.
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The Atlantic The One Group That Could Make a Difference on Gun Control
The polarization of policing has made it politically difficult for firearm restrictions to pass.
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The Atlantic; Alex Wong / Michael Schwartz / … Conservatives Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’
Their reaction to the Buffalo shooting shows that the racist theory has now entered the Republican mainstream.
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Associated Press The Myth That Roe Broke America
The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
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Getty; The Atlantic Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century
If the conservative justice’s draft opinion is adopted by the Court, key advances of the past hundred years could be rolled back.
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DDP / Sipa / AP Elon Musk Isn’t Buying Twitter to Defend Free Speech
Business moguls tend to be big on protecting speech, right until it hurts their bottom line.
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The Atlantic The Amazon Union Exposes the Emptiness of ‘Woke Capital’
It’s ordinary laborers who have the best opportunity to improve society.
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Alberto Pizzoli / Getty The Fall of the Azzurri
The losses, even more than the victories, hook you for life.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Who-Cares-If-You’re-Innocent Project
Republicans want to blame the rise in crime on liberal permissiveness, which includes, in their view, the right to counsel.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Supreme Court Seems to Think Discrimination Is When You Try to Remedy Discrimination
The conservative justices are scrapping Americans’ constitutional rights, all while pretending they aren’t.
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Larry Busacca / Getty; The Atlantic Whoopi Goldberg’s American Idea of Race
The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew.
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Getty; The Atlantic Republicans Seem to Think Putting a Black Woman on the Supreme Court Is the Real Racism
Biden hasn’t even named his nominee yet, and already conservatives are saying she’s undeserving.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Culture War Has Warped the Supreme Court’s Judgment
Yesterday’s decision hinges on a new and alarming embrace of the right-wing crusade against vaccination.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Democrats Will Have to Do More to Save Democracy From Trump
The Biden administration’s troubles may pave the road for the former president to return in 2024 with a legitimate electoral win.
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Daniel Constante / Alamy; Getty; Paul Spella / … Fox Hosts Knew—And Lied Anyway
Text messages sent to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reveal a disturbing truth.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Supreme Court Is Playing Constitutional Calvinball
If liberals try to apply the logic of the Texas abortion ruling to their own favored causes, they might be in for a rude surprise.
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Getty; The Atlantic Republicans Hope Their Assault on Democracy Will Stop a Post-Roe Backlash
Conservatives on the Supreme Court have engineered a system that allows half the country’s population to be stripped of a fundamental constitutional right.
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Octavio Jones / AP; Stephen B. Morton / … The System Only Worked Because It Was Pushed
The most surprising aspect of the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is not the verdict, but the fact that it happened at all.
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Sean Krajacic / Getty Of Course Kyle Rittenhouse Was Acquitted
It is one thing to argue that the jury reached a reasonable verdict based on the law, and another entirely to celebrate Rittenhouse’s actions.
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