New York magazine
The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis
Four years after promising to address its internal “scourge” of sexual assault and abuse, the massive, multinational, extralegal institution remains in conflict with itself.
10+ min |
September 13 - 26, 2021
Newsweek
Biden's Benghazi Moment
How the deadly Kabul AIRPORT ATTACK and bungled Afghanistan pullout could HAUNT HIS PRESIDENCY–and cost him the midterms.
8 min |
September 10, 2021
Newsweek
Was ‘Chaos-istan' Inevitable?
How Biden's influence during the Obama administration had long-lasting effects
8 min |
September 10, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
When The State Is Absent
A year after Beirut’s devastating port blast, the government is AWOL— so the people have stepped in to rebuild
9 min |
September 06, 2021
Newsweek
Fighting Terrorism from Afar
Can Joe Biden’s ‘over-the-horizon’ strategy in Afghanistan keep America safe? Defense experts are skeptical
6 min |
September 03, 2021
New York magazine
Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20
We should also acknowledge that a pervasive question after 9/11—“Why do they hate us?”—was the wrong question.
10+ min |
August 30 - September 12, 2021
Reason magazine
DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'
DEA still maintains that the plant belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category supposedly reserved for especially dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use.
2 min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?
A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Everything is Infrastructure Now
How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate
The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cashed Out
What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?
10+ min |
October 2021
Reason magazine
Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.
After thousands of Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation’s Communist government, President Joe Biden said America “stands firmly” with the people of Cuba.
3 min |
October 2021
Mother Jones
Ammon's Army
He built a platform that can summon 60,000 people for uprisings on demand. He’s running to become governor of Idaho. Inside Ammon Bundy’s crusade to liberate the West.
10+ min |
September/October 2021
Mother Jones
Mad As Hell
What’s fueling America’s political rage?
10+ min |
September/October 2021
AppleMagazine
Us Lawyers Appeal UK Decision To Block Assange Extradition
Lawyers acting on behalf of the U.S. government this week challenged a British judge’s decision to block the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the United States, arguing that assessments of Assange’s mental health should be reviewed.
2 min |
August 13, 2021
The Atlantic
White Progressives in Pursuit of Racial Virtue
What two new books reveal about the moral limits of anti-racist self-help
10+ min |
September 2021
The Atlantic
The 9/11 Century
Twenty years on, how should we think about the worst terrorist attack in American history?
9 min |
September 2021
Newsweek
‘Going Against Trump Is the Death Knell'
Six months after the Capitol riot, the 10 GOP representatives who voted to Impeach Donald Trump are fighting for their political lives
10+ min |
August 06, 2021
New York magazine
Everyone In San Francisco Has Something To Say About Chesa
Chesa Boudin, the son of Weathermen radicals, is the nation’s most progressive prosecutor in one of the country’s most liberal cities. And now, 18 months into his term, many residents are trying to throw him out.
10+ min |
August 2 - 15, 2021
New York magazine
86 minutes with … Kathryn Garcia
The bureaucrat enters a new phase of life: political celebrity.
6 min |
August 2 - 15, 2021
New York magazine
Daniel Everette Hale – Call Me a Traitor
Daniel Hale was an Air Force intelligence analyst who hated American empire, found Edward Snowden too compromising, and taught us almost everything we know about the drone war. The documents he leaked were published in 2015. Then he waited. Nothing changed.
10+ min |
July 19 - August 1, 2021
New York magazine
Before, During, After, January 6
The Historical Perspective at Six Months
5 min |
July 5-18, 2021
Reason magazine
How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?
President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.
3 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt
The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.
3 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
6 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Autonomous Mexico
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
6 min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.
10+ min |
August - September 2021
Reason magazine
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.
9 min |
August - September 2021
Newsweek
Are We Headed For A Cyber Pearl Harbor?
Digital attacks could push the U.S. and Russia into a Real War.
10+ min |
July 02 - 09, 2021
Mother Jones
Still Fronting
How the George Floyd uprising was framed
6 min |