Omicron omnishambles
Plus: Never-ending courtroom drama and McConaughey sits it out
Politics
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Monday
Sunday
Wokeness claims a museum
The Tenement Museum in New York erases the experiences of immigrants because they’re the wrong race
Omigod it’s the omicron
A new Covid variant arrives, but just how hysterical should we be?
Saturday
Is the supply chain stealing Christmas — or are the mandates?
Did you think we were having supply chain issues? Just wait until the vaccine mandates — cross-border and federal — kick in
Thursday
Andrew Cuomo is as bad as you thought he was
The State Assembly’s report reveals the extent of the former governor’s malfeasance
The verdict of the Ahmaud Arbery trial points towards hope
No citizen, regardless of color, should fear assault and murder while peaceably jogging through a neighborhood
Wednesday
Are the Republicans getting complacent?
Plus: Biden’s bougie break and the first Thanksgiving
Tuesday
Why I (sort of) stopped using the word ‘woke’
Boomers and cable news hosts have drained it of all meaning
The Democratic distraction
January 6 is a convenient sidebar for a collapsing party
A bad time for bail reform
Plus: The post-Parnell Pennsylvania GOP; Jefferson comes down; and Brian Stelter’s whiplash
Fifty years ago, D.B. Cooper changed air travel forever
The authorities may not have brought Cooper to book, but they wasted little time in punishing the rest of us
Bill Maher is not your ally
The classical liberal comic is still fighting for the Democrats
How cable news ruined Thanksgiving
By dealing in caricatures, they cause us to caricature each other. Then comes dinner
Kyle Rittenhouse takes on his QAnon lawyers
He tells Tucker that Lin Wood and John Pierce deliberately tried to keep him in jail
Monday
Kid Rock conservatism
Can hatred of snowflakes keep him and his fans in the right-wing fold?
Biden picks Powell
Plus: Hayes and Goldberg take a stand and the GOP’s blue-state governor blues
Sunday
John McWhorter versus the progressive elect
A new book says woke religion has ‘betrayed black America’
Saturday
Saving children’s books from wokeness
A new startup promises a more pro-American approach
Kyle Rittenhouse is still no hero
The media defamed him and his acquittal was just but that doesn’t mean he did the right thing
Yes, Build Back Better will raise the deficit
The CBO warns of red ink — and that’s only part of the story