9 Best Articles in 2021
The New York Times
The American Abyss
The New York Times
~19 min read · Jan 9th · A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next
The Atlantic
The Election That Could Break America
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-09-23 · If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
medium.com
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
medium.com
5 min read · 2020-06-01 · As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the…
The New York Times
Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
The New York Times
5 min read · From 2018 · I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
The Atlantic
History Will Judge the Complicit
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-06-02 · Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
The Atlantic
New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet
The Atlantic
~15 min read · 2020-04-19 · Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style, focused on empathy, isn’t just resonating with her people; it’s putting the country on track for success against the coronavirus.
The New York Times
How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations
The New York Times
20+ min read · Apr 3rd · Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions. Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep Donald Trump’s struggling…
Guardian Tech
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · A shadowy operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign heavily influenced the result of the EU referendum. Is our electoral process still…
New York Magazine
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President
New York Magazine
20+ min read · From 2018 · One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.
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The Atlantic
The Terrifying Future of the American Right
The Atlantic
~12 min read · Nov 18th · What I saw at the National Conservatism Conference
VICE
‘Buy the Constitution’ Aftermath: Everyone Very Mad, Confused, Losing Lots of Money, Fighting, Crying, Etc.
VICE
8 min read · Nov 22nd · ConstitutionDAO tried to buy the Constitution. Now it has a $40 million mess on its hands and entire refunds are being wiped out by high fees.
The Washington Post
The full text of the Glasgow climate pact
The Washington Post
20+ min read · Nov 13th · Two weeks of climate talks in Glasgow yielded an agreement that will not put the world on track to avoid catastrophic warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). But officials said it represents a significant step on a path to a safer future.
The Atlantic
Xi Jinping’s Terrifying New China
The Atlantic
8 min read · Nov 15th · The country is in the grip of the most concerted government campaign to assert greater control over its people in decades.
POLITICO
The Bonnie and Clyde of MAGA World
POLITICO
5 min read · Nov 19th · For a decade, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence had surfed the wave of populist-right politics like few other people in America. Then came Jan. 6.
The New York Times
Opinion | It’s Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or Democracy?
The New York Times
3 min read · Nov 12th · Jay Rosen on how the press fundamentally misunderstands American politics.
The New York Times
Opinion | Democrats Deny Political Reality at Their Own Peril
The New York Times
5 min read · Nov 5th · What's badly needed is a return to the moderate policies that fueled the blue-wave victories in 2018 and won Joe Biden the presidency in 2020.
Quartz
No one knows how $80 billion in climate financing was spent in 2019
Quartz
4 min read · Nov 11th · No single agency or government knows how all the dozens of billions of dollars raised each year in climate financing are being spent. At COP26, developing countries called for more transparency.
Guardian politics
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six
Guardian politics
~18 min read · Nov 16th · The long read presents Reconstruction after Covid: The generational divide is deforming democracy. But there is a solution
Reuters
The Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
Reuters
9 min read · Nov 19th · Amazon has amassed a vast storehouse of consumer data. Internal documents reveal how it built a lobbying juggernaut that gutted privacy legislation in two dozen states.
