Conor Friedersdorf
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters ‘Send Her Back’: The Bigoted Rallying Cry of Trump 2020
The president’s supporters at a North Carolina rally showed contempt for naturalized citizens and the Constitution.
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Tom Tingle / The Arizona Republic via AP He Killed an Unarmed Man, Then Claimed Disability
The latest twist in the police shooting of Daniel Shaver
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Mark Tenally / AP If Trump Had a Primary Challenger
How a Republican could take on the president
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Richard Drew / AP Tucker Carlson Has Failed to Assimilate
The Fox News host betrayed core American values in his attack on Representative Ilhan Omar.
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Reuters The Progressive Nonargument Against Biden
Media elites aren’t talking about his electability or his policy proposals.
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Associated Press Independence Day in a Divided America
Much more so than in 1776, there is a widely held belief that all humans are created equal.
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Steve Helber / AP The Alt-Right’s Tactical Cruelty
The so-called alt-right is characterized not only by its ideology, but also by the cruelty of its tactics. Trump and his allies embrace those tactics.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters “There Is Only Trump”
Karl Rove and Rich Lowry discuss the murky future of the Republican Party.
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Romeo Ranoco / Reuters ‘We Have Been Lazy on Hate’
Farah Pandith wants the U.S. government and corporations to do more to combat radical extremists as they recruit Millennials.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters ‘Don’t Go After Old Uncle Joe Too Fast’
Chris Christie’s debate tips
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Lisi Niesner / Reuters Can Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?
Masha Gessen suggests there was a connection between Asperger’s and social activism in the Soviet era.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Christie’s Scathing Indictment of Trump
He declared his intention to vote Trump in 2020—even though he thinks Trump surrounded himself with awful people.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Mass Surveillance Is Coming to a City Near You
A tech entrepreneur wants to track the residents of a high-crime American community.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Harvard Should Handle the Kyle Kashuv Mess
The university and its critics can transform this polarizing culture war controversy into a constructive moment––if both take steps to placate the other side.
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Chip East / Reuters From Public Shame to the Courtroom
Gibson’s Bakery, a family-owned business near Oberlin College accused of racism, just won a big payout.
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Luisa Gonzalez / Reuters A Once-Unthinkable Proposal for Refugee Camps
A political scientist has suggested closed camps on Western soil. Only the awfulness of the status quo makes them worth considering.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Judicial Review Solves a Problem of Power
A progressive’s call to undermine it is shortsighted.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters What Do 2020 Candidates Mean When They Say ‘Reparations’?
Even highly informed commentators lack a shared understanding of what the word means.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Saudi Arabia First
The president is helping the repressive monarchy wage war in open defiance of Congress. That’s grounds for impeachment.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters A Scorecard for Police Departments
Here’s a new way to help people evaluate the performance of the law-enforcement agencies that patrol their communities.
