Trump’s Extraordinary Gift for Self-SabotageThe president’s latest futile attempt to block a critical tell-all book proves that he was never the political genius the media made him out to be. By Alex Shephard
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Conservative Austerity Created the Mask WarsDecades of attacks on public programs have led us to a point where we’re arguing about personal responsibility in the midst of a pandemic. By J.C. Pan
What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert SmallsThe twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American. By Aderson Bellegarde François