The New Yorker
A Dangerous Game
China has coveted its island neighbor for decades. Is Xi Jinping ready to seize it?
10+ min |
November 21, 2022
New York magazine
Mathias Döpfner – Achtung, Baby
Axel Springer's Mathias Döpfner wants to be an old-school press baron for the digital age, part Murdoch but also part Musk. And still very German.
10+ min |
November 07 - 20, 2022
Newsweek US
'You Haven't Seen Anything Yet.'
What Trump would do in asecond term, according to his current and former advisors
10+ min |
November 04, 2022
WIRED
Tara McGowan – Ms. Info
A former Democratic millions into Meta's ad operative is sinking networks to build a digital media machine for the left. Her strategy: Target potential voters with grabby local news stories, then get them to the polls.
10+ min |
November 2022
New York magazine
The Future of Black Politics is at Stake in Georgia
The legacy of the civil-rights movement may hinge on Raphael Warnock’s reelection campaign.
10+ min |
October 24 - November 6, 2022
New York magazine
How to Make a Semi-fascist Party Who Knew It Could Be This Easy?
In mid-September, I attended the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, where Republican politicians, right-wing thought leaders, and various party apparatchiks had gathered to articulate their vision of the conservative movement's future.
10+ min |
October 10, 2022
New York magazine
The Convalescence Campaign
John Fetterman is trying to flip Pennsylvania's open Senate seat while fending off a celebrity doctor and recovering from a stroke that almost killed him.
10+ min |
October 10, 2022
Esquire US
Coming Home
The Uvalde tragedy set me down a path from my west Texas hometown to the hallowed halls of Washington, D.C., from political outsidercynic to inside broker on gun reform that changed me forever.
10+ min |
October - November 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek US
TikTok Steers Its Charm Offensive Around Critics
The company is trying to win support in Washington but acknowledges it has a "trust deficit"
5 min |
October 03, 2022
ELLE US
What Happens in Vegas
Catherine Cortez Masto, the only Latina in the U.S. Senate, is fighting to keep her seat in one of the most watched races of the midterms.
10+ min |
October 2022
Reason magazine
American Elections Are a Mess, and They Always Have Been
The long, weird history of partisan electoral shenanigans
10+ min |
November 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek US
Where Freedom of Speech Is Relative
Truth Social, Trump’s social site, faces criticism for leaving violent content up—and for filtering innocuous content
5 min |
August 29, 2022
Mother Jones
Masters and Commander
Right-wing tech giant Peter Thiel has poured millions into the Senate campaign of protégé Blake Masters. Their goal? Disrupting democracy.
10+ min |
September/October 2022
Mother Jones
A Dangerous Mind
Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee was thrown under the bus for sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. Turns out she was right.
10+ min |
September/October 2022
Reason magazine
The New Abortion Prohibition Era
Americans disagree about abortion. This is the understatement of 2022, yet it bears repeating in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the June Supreme Court decision that returned abortion policy to state and federal legislatures. Ten states have already banned abortion and another four have prohibited abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which amounts to nearly the same thing.
5 min |
October 2022
Esquire US
Happy 80th, Senator!
Time to go. We’ve always had a minimum age to serve in Congress. How about a max?
6 min |
September 2022
The Atlantic
"We Need To Take Away Children."
The secret history of the U.S. government's family-separation policy
10+ mins |
September 2022
The Atlantic
The Greatest Talker of His Time
Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal?
10+ min |
September 2022
Men's Journal
Death, Incorporated
How Putin's mercenary army known as the Wagner Group does the Kremlin's dirtiest work in Ukraine and in conflict zones around the world.
10+ min |
August - September 2022
Newsweek US
Beijing's Big Bet
China's pursuit of israeli technology is key to its plan to expand its global economic and military power. The U.S. is not happy
10+ min |
August 19, 2022
Reason magazine
After Uvalde, Irrelevant Gun Control Proposals
The horrifying May 24 massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults, happened just 10 days after a gunman murdered 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
5 min |
August - September 2022
New York magazine
What Will the Amazon Slayer Do Next?
Chris Smalls became the new face of labor when he spearheaded a unionization drive at a packing facility in staten island. Now he is trying to replicate that success across the country.
10+ min |
July 18 - 31, 2022
AppleMagazine
Crypto Plunge is Cautionary Tale for Public Pension Funds
When the Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund bought $25 million in cryptocurrencies, with the fund’s chief investment officer touting their potential, retired fire Capt. Russell Harris was concerned.
5 min |
July 15, 2022
New York magazine
Awaiting the Adams Doctrine
Six months into a highly energetic mayoralty, how has Eric Adams changed the city-if at all?
10+ min |
July 04 - 17, 2022
Mother Jones
Food for Thought: With the Grain
A simple, well-tested method for staving off world hunger
3 min |
July/August 2022
Mother Jones
Torn Apart
I have studied child protective services for decades. It needs to be abolished.
10+ min |
July/August 2022
Mother Jones
God's Plan
Christian anti-abortion activists are gearing up to go after birth control. And they have surprising allies.
7 min |
July/August 2022
The Atlantic
We Have No Nuclear Strategy
The U.S. can't keep ignoring the threat these weapons pose.
10+ min |
July - August 2022
The Atlantic
Back to Chagos
Half a century ago, 2,000 people were forcibly removed from a remote string of islands in the middle of the indian ocean. This year, a group of them set sail for home.
10+ min |
July - August 2022
Esquire US
What Men Can Expect in a Post-Roe World
All Americans should know how to get abortion pills
5 min |