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Not long after rioters were finally cleared out of the Capitol on January 6, Republican senators condemned the assault—and, in practically the same breath, put it behind them. Mitch McConnell described it as a “failed insurrection,” emphasis on the past tense. Ted Cruz recommended that the “Department of Justice should vigorously prosecute everyone who was involved in these brazen acts of violence,” while pointedly exempting Donald Trump himself—despite the fact that the former president had, earlier that day... Читать дальше...

Carla LeBlanc had been working at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, for five years when her union, representing over 800 nurses, began negotiating a new contract with management. Like many of her colleagues at St. Vincent, LeBlanc assumed that a contract would soon be in place.

Billy Constable has spent the better part of five years having very hard conversations on the phone.

It wasn’t long ago that most Democrats thought of United States Attorney General Merrick Garland as a sort of living martyr to Republican Party illiberalism, the would-be Supreme Court justice denied his place because of Mitch McConnell’s nihilistic commitment to raw power at any cost. Since joining the Biden administration, however, he’s largely inspired discontent among liberals for not pursuing Trump-era malefactors with a Javert-like intensity.

Just a handful of sentences into his speech commemorating the insurrection a year ago on January 6, President Joe Biden unveiled the biggest political decision of his presidency.

On December 21, 2021, the attorneys general of 16 states, including agricultural powerhouses like Iowa and Minnesota, sent a letter to United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and his fair-competition czar, Senior Advisor Andrew Green. In it, they called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to enforce the Packers and Stockyards Act, initially passed in 1921 to check rampant market manipulation and fraud in the meat industry. The timing of the letter wasn’t accidental. A White House... Читать дальше...

Over the last six decades, only two news events have upended my stubborn, steadfast, flag-waving belief in the promise of America.

This article was reported in partnership with Type Investigations.

On a Monday night in early November, in a basement ballroom at the Hilton Orlando, four conservative intellectuals—a nationalist, a neocon, a “political Catholic,” and a “why I left the left” guy—sat on stage, drinks in hand, to hash out the future of conservatism. As a drone buzzed noisily overhead, gathering footage for one panelist’s YouTube show, the loudspeakers played an unsubtle soundtrack: the Sister Sledge anthem... Читать дальше...

On the title page of my paperback copy of Walden, an echo of a former self greets me. My name, written in loopy adolescent script, and the date: August 12, 1993. I was 17 when I bought the Vintage Books/Library of America edition at Waldenbooks in the Bridgewater Commons Mall, using proceeds from a summer job. I dutifully read it in those final weeks of summer, with pen in hand, underlining here, making embarrassing marginal comments there. One late afternoon, I was sitting alone at home, working my way through the book... Читать дальше...

In the waning days of December, with their legislative agenda exhaling a painful death rattle that culminated in the demise of the House-passed version of the Build Back Better Act, Senate Democrats began to pivot their attention to passing some form of voting rights legislation.