Politics

how i get it done 6/21/2021

How This Green New Deal Architect Gets It Done Rhiana Gunn-Wright on choosing to have children during a climate crisis, being a Black Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and more.

By Bridget Read

juneteenth 6/17/2021

Juneteenth Is Now a Federal Holiday President Biden has signed a bill commemorating the end of slavery after Republican opposition crumbled.

By Ed Kilgore and Claire Lampen

politics 6/15/2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Learned About the Holocaust After spending the last month comparing mask mandates to Nazi gas chambers, she now believes there is “no comparison.”

fashion 6/10/2021

What Did Jill Biden Really Mean With That Jacket? It’s hard not to read it as a dig at Melania.

power 6/10/2021

Huma Abedin Is Releasing a Memoir The book apparently includes “a candid and moving reckoning” of her marriage to Anthony Weiner.

The Tiger Mom and the Hornet’s Nest For two decades, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld were Yale Law power brokers. A new generation wants to see them exiled.

A Student Gave an Impromptu Graduation Speech About Abortion Rights Paxton Smith delivered an impassioned critique of Texas’s extreme abortion ban.

By Olivia Evans

Ron DeSantis Has Banned Trans Girls in Florida From School Sports On the first day of Pride month, no less.

By Claire Lampen

Amy Cooper Is Suing … for Racial Discrimination? The white woman who gained notoriety after calling the police on a Black bird-watcher continues to insist she’s “not a racist.”

reckoning with a reckoning 5/25/2021

White People Are Squirming Eight writers on what happens when the people around you are suddenly forced to confront race.