Mother Jones
Kyrsten Sinema – Shape Shifter
From Green Party rabble-rouser to Senate power broker, Kyrsten Sinema’s rise is a political fairy tale—and nightmare.
10+ min |
July/August 2021
Mother Jones
Geared Up Los Deliveristas
After work conditions deteriorated, New York’s immigrant bicycle couriers united to bring a revolution to the gig economy.
5 min |
July/August 2021
The Atlantic
The Four Americas
Competing visions of the country’s purpose and meaning are tearing it apart. Is reconciliation possible?
10+ min |
July - August 2021
The Atlantic
Boris Johnson – Inside The Controlled Chaos Of Downing Street
Boris Johnson knows exactly what he's doing
10+ min |
July - August 2021
New York magazine
71 minutes with … Andrew Giuliani
A failson sets his sights on Albany.
10+ min |
June 21-July 4, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
A Climate To Fear
Central America’s subsistence farmers are fleeing increasingly severe droughts and storms
4 min |
June 14, 2021
Newsweek
A Superhero's New Mission
Chris Evans hung up his Captain America shield. Now he and his partners want to help Generation Z reshape the U.S. political landscape
10+ min |
June 18 - 25, 2021
New York magazine
2021 New York City mayoral election – Rank Me
Fifteen candidates for mayor, each selling a different vision of the city. Choose your top five.
10+ min |
June 7 - 20, 2021
Reason magazine
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Confuses Costs For Benefits
The list of things that President Joe Biden hopes to accomplish with his American Jobs Plan is nearly as impressive as its $2 trillion price tag. “It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges,” Biden bragged during an April speech in Pittsburgh.
3 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Wittgenstein Vs. The Woke
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
The $2 Drug Test Keeping Inmates in Solitary
Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.
10+ min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
Clarence Thomas Declares War On Big Tech
IN 2003, REASON named Clarence Thomas one of the magazine’s “35 Heroes of Freedom” because the Supreme Court justice had proven himself “a reliable defender of freedom of speech in such diverse contexts as advertising, broadcasting, and campaign contributions.”
4 min |
July 2021
Reason magazine
The Right To An Abortion Isn't Going Away
While overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to new restrictions in many states, legal access to abortion would be unaffected in most of the country.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
How To End Extreme Child Poverty
Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Purgatory At Sea
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the mediterranean.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Whose Side Is Kavanaugh On?
Conservatives hope to weaponize his bitterness. Liberals are inviting him over for dinner.
10+ min |
June 2021
Mother Jones
Stars and Strife
How two feuding tea party leaders helped lay the groundwork for the insurrection
10+ min |
May/June 2021
Mother Jones
The “Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland”
After decades of discriminating against Black farmers and ignoring their complaints, the USDA is promising to do better. Again.
10+ min |
May/June 2021
Mother Jones
Total Recall
California Republicans’ hopes are riding on the “superhero pirate” leading a mutiny against the governor.
6 min |
May/June 2021
Mother Jones
Biden's Muse
Can America’s problems be fixed by a president who loves Jon Meacham?
10+ min |
May/June 2021
New York magazine
Andrew Yang's Insider Campaign
How did a former CEO of 100 employees become the front-runner to govern a city of 8.5 million? Not simply by being a national celebrity and an excellent campaigner.
10+ min |
May 10 - 23, 2021
Fast Company
6 Creative Ways Workers Are Taking Back Power
When workers align with local constituents to fight for shared goals, it strengthens their campaign.
8 min |
Summer 2021
New York magazine
30 minutes with … Eric Adams
Eight weeks before the mayoral primary and second in the polls, Brooklyn’s borough president sharpens his case for more cops.
6 min |
April 26 - May 9, 2021
Reason magazine
The Era of Small Government Is Over
Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
10+ min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
‘Hero Pay' For Grocery Workers Is Terrible For Grocery Workers
“Hero Pay” Laws, which require big wage increases for grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, are sweeping the West Coast. Store closures, unemployment, and lawsuits have followed in their wake.
2 min |
June 2021
Reason magazine
An $86 Billion Moral Hazard
The $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package.
3 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
The Power of the First Lady
How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Diplomat Who Disappeared
In 1974, John Patterson, an american diplomat on his first assignment abroad, was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000 and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful
The civic habits necessary for a functioning republic have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.
10+ min |
April 2021
New York magazine
Christian Walker
A rising conservative star on TikTok.
6 min |