Republicans Are Counting on Millionaires to Flip the Senate
Since his rise to the presidency, Donald J. Trump has claimed enormous wealth as proof that he is an anti-establishment ally of the working class, not beholden to corporate donors…
Reddit’s I.P.O. Is a Content Moderation Success Story
A decade ago, no one in their right mind would have put “Reddit” and “publicly traded company” in the same sentence. At the time, Reddit was known as one of…
They Thought Their Freaknik Days Were Behind Them. No, Cue the Tape.
Back then, hundreds of thousands of young people, mostly Black college students, descended on Atlanta every spring for the rowdy and raunchy event called Freaknik. Performers like Notorious B.I.G., OutKast…
Opinion | Adding Insult to Injury
During a recent group email for my book club, one member said she couldn’t make the next meeting because she’d accidentally frost-burned her rear end with an ice pack meant…
Opinion | The One Idea That Could Save American Democracy
These days, we often hear that democracy is on the ballot. And there’s a truth to that: Winning elections is critical, especially as liberal and progressive forces try to fend…
America First Legal, a Trump-Aligned Group, Is Spoiling for a Fight
The legal group has filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asserting that “woke corporations” like Disney, Nike, Mattel, Hershey, United Airlines and the National Football League discriminate against…
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
On March 21, 1924, Jessie Fauset sat inside the Civic Club in downtown Manhattan, wondering how the party for her debut novel had been commandeered. The celebration around her was…
‘Freaknik’ Documentary Invites Viewers to Black College Spring Break
It’s an accepted spring break axiom that you can retake a class but you can’t relive a party. Until now, that’s been true of Freaknik, the annual bass-rattling spring break…
Taxpayers Were Overcharged for Patient Meds. Then Came the Lawyers.
In 2018, when Mike DeWine was Ohio’s attorney general, he began investigating an obscure corner of the health care industry. He believed that insurers were inflating prescription drug prices through…
What Is Antisemitism? A Columbia Task Force Would Rather Not Say.
A Columbia University task force set up to combat antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks is attempting to avoid one of the most contentious…