Tag: politics

The production company Acres New York combines documentary filmmaking and political savvy.

Activist DeRay Mckesson says that to make this world a better place, people need to pick one thing to work on and keep at it.

The race in Georgia’s 6th District has been blessed with the DNC’s millions, but only takes some of its advice.

Last time Sessions spoke in a public hearing, he lied. This time, the stakes are higher.

To begin with, he’s someone who believes the ideal FBI director is “tough but fair and unfailingly honest.”

Most people who have lived through a renovation know the hallmark of a bad contractor.

Before she was a major power broker in Washington, Rebecca Mercer was a bakery owner. Politico puts her cookies to the test.

At Buzzfeed, Anne Helen Petersen has been reporting for months on the complex needs of state’s independent voter.

He works out twice a day, he remembers everyone he meets, he hopes you’re sleeping soundly and doing great!

Presidential speeches can motivate a people and set the national tenor. Oh, how we will miss them.

Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte might have a few things in common.

Is he confused, insane, or just paranoid? Evan Osnos traces the history of presidential incapacity for the New Yorker

While snowed in on the West Coast, Frances Badalamenti grapples alone with her father’s death on the other side of what feels like a dying country.

Knitting and sewing circles have long been the perfect environments for women to organize.

It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It’s also how Donald Trump views the entire world.

The Russian election is one year away, but taking on a ruthless autocrat may not be welcomed by a generation looking for stability and security.

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

Sam Kriss, in a post he calls his “magnum opus” in The Outline, explores the age-old warning not to stare directly at the sun.

Sarah Posner introduces some of the main players in “alt-right Christianity” in her exploration of American Evangelicals’ embrace of Trump.

Jane Mayer profiles hedge fund manager, alt-right supporter, political funder, and Ayn Rand-wannabe Robert Mercer in the New Yorker.

“When we use Nazi imagery to describe Trump, nuance is lost.”

In The Walrus, Peter Norman boats for a week with followers of Canada’s fear-mongering conspiratorial conservative, Ezra Levant.

Was the Women’s March “… the most successful protest in U.S. history”?

“Cracking the code of the man who packs [Trump’s] ideological lunch.”

Which of our neighbors have been rounded up so far?

The firing of FBI Director James Comey is the latest high-profile firing by the administration. It’s also one of the most troubling.

Mark MacKinnon tells the story of Naief Abazid — who, at the urging of some older boys, graffitied a school wall on a lark in Daraa, Syria, at age 14. The “writing on the wall” enraged Syria’s Baathist dictatorship, and became the source of ignition in the Syrian war.

“Despite the headlines that came after the election calling this country ‘Trump’s America’—and there were many—I won’t call it that, or see it that way. And regardless of your politics I’ll ask you to join me. This is our America. It’s our America to write in, and our America to write.”

Duke University law professor Jedediah Purdy, writing in The New Republic, looks at the rise of the left in American politics.

A journey down the borehole, a long walk off a short oil rig.