How Tucker Carlson Lost It
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How Tucker Carlson Lost It

He once craved responsibility and tried to give a right-wing audience real news. They didn't want it. And he adjusted with a vengeance.

By Alex Shephard

 

Lab to Table

Can meat grown in a laboratory help save the planet? And if it can, what’s standing in our way? 

By Kate Aronoff

 

The Case for Partisanship

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

By Osita Nwanevu

 

How Does Don Jr. Roll?

Donald Trump Jr. teases about a political future. But what do we really know about him? In Charleston County, South Carolina, they know more than most.

By Joe Rubin

 

Signs & Wonders

Charter Schools’ Scary Future

As Democrats withdraw support, we may see a future in which charters turn rightward—while still getting federal funding.

By Jennifer C. Berkshire

 

The Apolitical Passivity of “Inclusion”

It’s a toothless word that shies away from the root causes of inequality.

By John Patrick Leary

 

Nevada’s Blue Wave

Once reliably Republican, the state has suddenly become a laboratory of progressive experimentation.

By Matt Ford

 

Charlie Kirk’s Sick Logic

The leader of Turning Point USA made his name as a campus free-speech warrior. Now, he’s vying to be the conservative movement’s most committed anti-vaxxer.

By Jake Bittle

 

Is It Finally Curtains for Roe?

As the Supreme Court starts its fall term, we’ll learn whether the new conservative majority respects the court’s own precedents.

By Brianne Gorod

 

Books & The Arts

The Afterlives of E.M. Forster

For decades, Forster could not publish his novel of gay love, Maurice. Its importance in his work and to the writers he nurtured is only just becoming clear.

By Alexander Chee

 

The Case Against Humane War

How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war

By Daniel Bessner

 

How Should a Millennial Marxist Novel Be?

The characters in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You want you to know they considered alternatives to capitalism.

By Jennifer Wilson

 

Has Amazon Changed Fiction?

Mark McGurl’s new book defines a frightening new era of literature, honed to Jeff Bezos’s algorithm.

By Kyle Chayka

 

George Packer’s Center Cannot Hold

His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.

By Aaron Timms

 

The Chair Is an Elegy for the Life of the Mind

The Netflix show with Sandra Oh captures an existential crisis.

By Lidija Haas

 

Res Publica

Nick Kristof for Governor

A communitarian leader emerges in Oregon.

By Win McCormack

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