Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.
How Mayor de Blasio lost New York.
To speak of the human as such, as the modernists did, is like taking a piece of the wild, putting it into a petri dish, adding bleach and antibiotics until more than half of what’s in there is dead and then celebrating the barely-living remains as “the human.” Provocatively put, the human is a sterile abstraction, a harmony of illusions.
On the people who will be sent back to a place they’ve never called home if DACA runs out.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration may not immediately proceed with its plan to end DACA
“I don’t think [the news media] has ever had a good handle on a political moment. It’s not designed for that. It’s designed for engagement.”
“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”
Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.
Joshua Williams was 18 when he was arrested in 2014 for stealing a bag of chips and lighting a QuikTrip trash can on fire in the aftermath of a protest sparked by the death of Antonio Martin near Ferguson, MO. He is still in prison.
The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles?
Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.
But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.
A discussion of the “limited but important” power of Occupy Wall Street’s open blog, “We Are the 99%.”
William Barr’s state of emergency.
“Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
Our economy is built on Americans of all class levels buying things. What happens when the ability—and desire—to do so goes away?
On homelessness in San Francisco.
“After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.”
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.
A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.
A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.
To understand the President’s path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country’s executive class.
On the Tea Party.
Mitch McConnell’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.
A profile of the doctor who has run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 36 years.
