Baseball Players Can’t Live on “a Cup of Coffee” Baseball Players Can’t Live on “a Cup of Coffee”
The media’s “billionaires vs. millionaires” view of the current baseball lockout is a major league lie. The vast majority of players who reach the big leagues don’t play long enoug...
Feb 7, 2022 / Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier
As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate
Congress could get inspiration from the tortured creation of Social Security.
Feb 7, 2022 / James Roosevelt Jr., Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, and Harold M. Ickes
Democrats Are Facing an Uphill Battle Democrats Are Facing an Uphill Battle
With the midterm elections on the horizon, the party is alienating its base and losing public confidence.
Feb 7, 2022 / Aída Chávez
The Town That QAnon Nearly Swallowed The Town That QAnon Nearly Swallowed
Right-wing demagogues tried to take over a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s how concerned citizens stopped them.
Feb 7, 2022 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Has the Pandemic Pushed Universities to the Brink? Has the Pandemic Pushed Universities to the Brink?
Covid has turned the gap between universities and colleges serving mainly privileged students and those serving needy ones into a chasm and it is unclear if the latter will be able...
Feb 7, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Delbanco
Russia, Ukraine, and “The New York Times” Russia, Ukraine, and “The New York Times”
The paper of record’s coverage of the crisis has been a series of shameless provocative conjectures posing as facts.
Feb 5, 2022 / Column / David Bromwich
The Politics of the Capitol Insurrection Are Spreading Across the Country The Politics of the Capitol Insurrection Are Spreading Across the Country
The far-right groups that stormed the Capitol are now focusing on local, and even electoral, politics.
Feb 5, 2022 / Column / Kali Holloway
Must Try Harder: Grading President Biden’s First Year Must Try Harder: Grading President Biden’s First Year
After a year that began with the Capitol riot and ended with the Covid revival, Joe Biden seems headed toward a remarkably consequential presidency. But whether as a success or a f...
Feb 4, 2022 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
California’s Red Counties California’s Red Counties
The alt-right’s ascendancy in Shasta County gives a window on what could be a fractious political future for California’s rural north.
Feb 4, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky