Wednesday
December 30, 2020

The gig company, like many of its peers, has seen business skyrocket during the pandemic—while exploiting workers and even failing to turn a profit.

By Jacob Silverman

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	Mitch McConnell Is Giving Us a Sneak Preview of the Political Hell to Come The Senate majority leader is poisoning a bipartisan effort to increase stimulus checks to $2,000—and foreshadowing his tactics under a Biden administration.By Matt Ford

	The Pragmatism of the Radical Climate Left The Georgia runoff shows that climate activists are more practical and strategic than Democrats give them credit for.By Kate Aronoff

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	Getting to Denmark Reclaiming the Lutheran spirit of social democracyBy Win McCormack

	The Year of Magical Thinking in American Politics Trump campaigned on one kind of nostalgia, while Biden campaigned on another. The less regressive vision won out, but we’re still hurtling toward the abyss.By Ben Ehrenreich

	When Historical Fiction Is a Crime Why is one of Turkey’s foremost novelists in jail?By Kaya Genç

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