Friday
February 19, 2021

The U.S. government long knew about lead poisoning in a public housing complex in Indiana and it did nothing—an all-too-familiar combination of federal apathy and structural racism.

By Nick Martin

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	The Rise and Fall of the L. Brent Bozells How four generations of one American family are a synecdoche of the decline of the conservative movement.By Timothy Noah

	Rush Limbaugh and the Nineties Roots of “Cancel Culture” His meteoric rise to mainstream celebrity could only have happened in 1990s America. Some people would like to go back.By Alex Pareene

	The Mothers Leading the Battle Against Trans Student Athletes Their tactics mirror those employed by white mothers who fought school integration: disguising bigotry with pleas to protect children.By Melissa Gira Grant

	Massive Attack Has Never Sounded So Good The trip hop group’s “Unfinished Sympathy,” which turned 30 years old this pandemic winter, evokes the urban soundscape of a lost era.By Ryu Spaeth

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	The Polite Rage of Shirley Hazzard Her newly reissued masterpiece “The Transit of Venus” gestures at vast and intricate political problems.By Jo Livingstone

	The Human Factor Tallies the What Ifs of Israel-Palestine Peace Talks His postpresidency will be an exhausting and expensive parade of legal battles.By Daphne Merkin

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