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Monday
Have we passed peak Biden?
The public are now focused principally on the economy — which is good news for Trump
Sunday
Taxi cabs are New York’s right-wing safe spaces on wheels
Self-employment comes with the dangerously right-wing attributes of self-reliance and discipline
How the New York Times profits from self-censorship
Not failing, but falling leftwards
Saturday
The New York Times thinks ‘nice white parents’ are the root of all evil
Team Serial’s new podcast finds its new great villain
Friday
A look into the post-RBG world of American politics
Spoiler alert: not much will change
Who deserves a funeral?
Politicians have decided that celebrity affords them the right to override the onerous restrictions on funerals
The sunset of secular Turkey
Let’s not pretend that Turkey wants to be a Western nation with Western values
Thursday
Trump’s election delay tweet smacks of desperation
The strongman looks weak
Trump’s troop move is a 21st-century strategy
The US should accept victory in Germany just as it should accept defeat in Afghanistan
The curious Umbrella Man myth
Cockburn hasn’t seen this many people excited about an umbrella since Mary Poppins hit theaters in 1964
Wednesday
Kimberly Guilfoyle: devout Catholic?
The former Fox News host makes her case for Catholics supporting Trump
Kamala Harris is an awful VP pick
Biden remembers who Kamala Harris is, right?
The bewildering bombardment of Bill Barr
His would-be inquisitors in the Democratic party have succumbed to a virus far more toxic than the Wuhan flu
Rich people are struggling during COVID, too
The average age in the Hamptons has to be well over 50 so the Hinge market was a disappointment
San Francisco in decay
Somewhere on the rebound from the tough-on-crime 1990s, criminal law lost its teeth
Tuesday
When ‘j’accuse’ is just a smear
The false, malicious attacks on the Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass
Francis Fukuyama does not read your tweets
‘I think it makes us lazy thinking about removing a statue, rather than creating a social policy that will materially improve conditions for marginalized groups’
The mock revolution of the elites
Progressive liberals get a psychic reward from incanting the right words
Get ready for Trump’s second term
Much depends on whose hands control each House of Congress
Monday
The lunacy of the ‘largely peaceful protest’
The media says one thing while also saying the opposite
The rise of homeschooling
Homeschools may no longer be old school thanks to COVID-19
On the ground in Manhattan after 9/11
Life in Manhattan, September 2001
Why Trumpism won’t outlive Trump
Unlike Reaganism, the nationalist agenda is backed by a diminishing electoral base
The woke war on religion
A disturbing trend of attacking religious sites reveals a new intolerance
Friday
Portnoy 2024, anyone?
Barstool Sports dabbles in politics
Predictions of Trump’s demise may yet again be premature
It’s actually surprising Trump isn’t farther behind Biden in the polls
Thursday
The Economist should be more like Walt Whitman
The paper’s election modeling betrays an undercurrent of anxiety
Wednesday
Gretchen Whitmer’s white fragility
The Michigan governor is mandating implicit bias training for healthcare workers during a pandemic. Why?
Planned Parenthood finally grapples with Margaret Sanger’s racist past
The admission, while bland, marks the strongest sign to date of a shift in rhetoric for the 103-year-old organization
Tuesday
Biden’s comms director doesn’t hate women — but he does suck at his job
What would you expect from a Director of Strategic Communications?
Fact-checking the New Yorker fact-checkers
Esteemed magazine claims ‘two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 15 and 34’ treated in ER rooms suffered injuries inflicted by police or security guards
The crumbling lawsuit against Fox News
The latest claims against the network are riddled with basic factual errors