From Virtue Signaling to Politics
Two new books try to put power back into 
civic engagement.
Praise by Faint Damnation
In which the liberals’ favorite conservative blames America’s crisis more on decadent culture than decadent capitalism
Mapping Corruption: Donald Trump’s Executive Branch
An inquiry into how the Trump administration transformed Washington
The Rise of Neo-Feudalism
The private capture of entire legal systems by corporate America goes far beyond neoliberalism. It evokes the private fiefdoms of the Middle Ages.
How the Right Went Far-Right
The media once quarantined neofascists. Not anymore.
Like Uber, but for Gig Worker Organizing
Drivers and delivery personnel for app-based employers keep getting squeezed. Now they’re fighting back.
Mapping Corruption
What’s really happening inside Trump’s Washington
The Constitutional Option to Fight the Climate Crisis
Ubiquitous pipelines crisscrossing America and worries over climate change raise the question: Does transporting oil and gas serve the public interest?
Remote Control
A civil rights lawsuit highlights how Comcast’s monopoly crushes media diversity.
Power to the Person
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tells progressive Senate candidates to stop running in primaries and funnels money and operatives to his centrist preferences.
Mind the Trust Gap
The story of scarce face masks during a pandemic points to a greater failing: Government has placed corporate greed above the public good.
The Man Who Knew
An interview with Barry Lynn, whose prediction about the dangers of centralizing our manufacturing has sadly come true amid the coronavirus outbreak
