National Review Is Trying to Rewrite Its Own Racist History
The magazine invested extraordinary amounts of time and resources into building an intellectual edifice for segregation.
Politics
Carl Reiner’s Life Should Remind Us: If You Like Laughing, Thank FDR and the New Deal
Reiner, Stephen Colbert, Jordan Peele, Steve Carrell, Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Their comedy descends directly from the Works Progress Administration.
There's a War Going On Over Kamala Harris's Wikipedia Page, With Unflattering Elements Vanishing
In recent presidential cycles, the velocity of edits made to a Wikipedia page have correlated with the choice of vice presidential running mate.
K-Pop Fans Are Getting Involved in U.S. Politics. Are They Activists?
While well-organized, K-pop fans are hardly a monolith. As they take action for BLM, the fandom itself is dealing with issues of harassment and racism.
The Coronavirus Crisis
The Trump Administration Is Waiving the Public’s Right to Affordable Coronavirus Treatments
Amid record unemployment, HHS is doling out more than $1 billion in coronavirus contracts that omit price-gouging safeguards.
Protests for Black Lives
A North Carolina City Bans Protests, Protecting Confederate Monument
The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office threatened to arrest all protesters in the city of Graham, where a statue of Confederate soldier stands.
J Street Is Facing New Pressure to Back Conditioning Aid to Israel
If J Street puts its lobbying operation to work, a majority of the Democratic caucus could support conditioning aid in response to Israeli annexation.
The Coronavirus Crisis
The Airline Industry Blocked Disclosure of Trade Data, Helping Conceal the Airlift of N95 Masks From the U.S. to China
The full scale and scope of what happened — including types of masks shipped, prices, and destinations for the shipments — are still shrouded in mystery.
Voices
Black Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further.
The Movement for Black Lives says, “We seek not reform but transformation.” Here’s what that would mean.
Controversial Data-Mining Firm Palantir Vanishes From Biden Adviser's Biography After She Joins Campaign
Within a few days of joining the Biden campaign, the biography of former top intelligence official Avril Haines no longer listed her work for Palantir.