Category: Politics

The Incremental Approach

A look at the astonishing career of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

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Pointing Fingers

“My point that I’m not pointing starts with the Scopes Trial.”

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When Sustainability Isn’t Sexy

“Does the ‘look’ of sustainability, a sort of glamorous image expressed in the carefully crafted brand of environmental nonprofits, obscure all the unassuming pockets of sustainability?”

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Limited and Unwanted

What Trump’s election means for me.

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Vote-Dream

Electoral night-terrors.

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Climate reporting in the age of “alternative facts”

On the state of environmental reporting under Trump.

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Save Me San Francisco

An analysis of the increasing centrality of San Francisco to Democratic party politics.

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My Tenure For A Tweet

After being disinvited from a panel on campus about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Associate Professor Max Weiss wrote in The Daily Princetonian, “Princeton must remain a place where open debate and academic exchange is encouraged and allowed to flourish, even on the most controversial issues.” It would be a lot easier to take him at his word had he not just convened a panel on academic freedom the week before, to which he invited zero dissenting voices.

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Nixon’s Ghost

What separates Trump from his predecessors is his willingness, and the willingness of his supporters, to give up any pretense of subtly or slyness. Trump’s campaign, despite what the headlines say, is not unprecedented in this way. It has simply set at center stage the racial politics that Republicans have long trafficked in but preferred to dress in finer rhetorical disguises.

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A Note on Dobbs v. Jackson and Brexit

What might Brexit teach us about the political ramifications of Dobbs v. Jackson?

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A Problem of Privilege

“Girls aren’t educated at the same rates as boys? Government is in a constant state of unrest? It’s okay—the affluent white person can help.”

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