Opinion
Antisemitism on Display at Boston’s Straight Pride Parade
“It is precisely because of Zionist liberals that the Israeli flag was present at the Straight Pride Parade.”
On Electability
We must expect better from our political allies, which means expecting them to vote for the best candidate, not the safest one. And it means holding ourselves to that standard, too.
Get Out: 2020 Democrats focus on the White House Over the Senate
The first step to not neglecting down-ballot races is convincing well-known candidates, somehow, to swallow their ambition for a few years and run for offices where they are needed, not offices they think they deserve.
Dance of Death: Congressional Inaction After El Paso and Dayton
“As usual, people have been asking whether this will be the shooting that finally brings about meaningful action from Congress or the White House. My response: certainly not.”
“An Acute and Worsening Crisis”: Migrants Face Dangerous Conditions at America’s Southwest Border
The prolonged detention of migrants at facilities ill-equipped for long-term needs has produced devastating consequences.
PARK: Presidential Ambitions May Stunt Democrat Senate Prospects
By rejecting a Senate run in their highly contested states, Beto O’Rourke, John Hickenlooper and Steve Bullock may be doing their party a disfavor.
On Toni Morrison
“Toni Morrison, without a doubt, served as the greatest Anglophone writer of the twentieth century…[she] wrote as a Black woman, about Black women, for Black women.”
When Narcissism and Privilege Became the Keys to Number 10
“Johnson’s relationship with the truth is about as secure as his relationship to his ideals, or one of his oft-cheated wives. All these become secondary to his higher task of elevating himself, and continuing the oligarchy that helped him.”