It’s 95 percent fake news, but the rise and fall of American aviation is also a powerful parable about the limits of what Percy Green called ‘tokenism.’
Race & Ethnicity
Posted inLaw and Justice
DOJ Closes Tulsa Massacre Probe as Trump Takes Office
Investigators made solid progress in just three months, but the case is now mothballed.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Philadelphia’s Chinatown Is Victorious
In a major triumph for civic activists, the billionaire owners of the city’s NBA team backed out of an arena project that had been approved for the neighborhood.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor’s Prodigal Son Returns
SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge.
Posted inPolitics
2024 in Review: Gabrielle Gurley
Senior Editor Gabrielle Gurley unpacks the year’s trials and tribulations.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Best of 2024: Hassan Ali Kanu
Our staff writer offers his best of the year.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Conrad and Me
The second in a series of ‘billionaires I have known’
Posted inBooks
Palestine, Writing, and Everything Else
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lovely little book on big, urgent matters
Posted inPolitics
The Harsh Realities Behind North Carolina’s Noncitizen Amendment
The successful ballot measure hasn’t gotten much notice in the wake of Trump’s victory, but it has dangerous implications.
Posted inTAP
Did Democrats Run Too Far to the Left?
Today on TAP: Why do commentators have such a hard time distinguishing populist economic left from woke cultural left?