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The case for stripping the Supreme Court of its power
A Harvard law professor on whether it’s time to rethink the nation’s highest court.
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Sean Illing
This isn't exactly a case for abolishing the Supreme Court, but it's absolutely a case for transforming it. Worth revisiting today.
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What the Rush to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett Is Really About
The Republican Party wants to shield itself from the growing Democratic coalition.
The extraordinary therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs, explained
I spent months talking to psychedelic guides and researchers. Here’s what I learned.
The Psychedelic Election
A new issue arrives on the horizon. Why it matters.
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Sean Illing
A worthwhile post by @sullydish making the moral and increasingly urgent social case for expanding access to psychedelics
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The fight is for democracy
The stakes of this election are so high because the system itself is at stake.
How conspiracy theories like QAnon spilled into the mainstream
Andrew Marantz on Facebook, tech ideology, and the spread of hate on the internet.
A political scientist explains why the GOP is a threat to American democracy
And why the November election is an opportunity to fix it.
Trump exploited a broken press. Here’s how to fix it.
A conversation with media critic Jay Rosen.
Sean Illing
I've spilled a lot of ink complaining about the pathologies of the press in the Trump era. Here @jayrosen_nyu and I pivot away from the diagnosis towards the solutions.
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The Real Divide in America Is Between Political Junkies and Everyone Else
Most Americans view politics as two camps bickering endlessly and fruitlessly over unimportant issues.
New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Zoom Dick Incident
In a statement to VICE, Jeffrey Toobin apologized for the "embarrassingly stupid mistake."
As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place
A nationwide operation of 1,300 local sites publishes coverage that is ordered up by Republican groups and corporate P.R. firms.
Inside the Fall of the CDC
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
Lazy Cowards Don’t Start Civil Wars
All evidence suggests that the president would run from the responsibility of overseeing the violent fracture of America.
Sean Illing
I hope @gcaw is right. He makes a good case. I pray that the God(s) of Grift deliver us from evil in a few weeks.
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Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in…
The case for funding psychedelics to treat mental health
Scientists are developing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, into a treatment for depression.
Republicans’ Attention to COVID-19 News Had Declined Before Trump Tested Positive
About two-thirds of Republicans say the U.S. has controlled the outbreak as much as it could have; 88% of Democrats disagree.
How Fox News molds reality into a serialized TV drama
The No. 1 news network tells "stories" in a surprisingly similar fashion to a show like Lost.
Sean Illing
Such a smart, interesting piece by @emilyvdw and a reminder that American politics has been thoroughly transfigured by the medium of television
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How Obamacare became Democrats’ most powerful political weapon
There’s a reason Trump and Pence keep lying about Obamacare, and Biden and Harris keep bringing it up.
David Frum on why Republicans chose Trumpocracy over democracy
"The Republican Party has a platform that can’t prevail in democratic competition."
Court-Packing Would Be the Very Tyranny Democrats Have Warned About | National Review
There are few more destructive ideas than Court-packing, and none so keenly in need of ubiquitous condemnation.
Sean Illing
When one party alternates between sabotaging govt in order to justify contempt for it and then shredding every norm that sustains the system when in power, you don’t get to complain when the other party stops self-immolating and responds in kind
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