The Debt Limit Is Just One of America’s Six Worst Traditions

Favorite The dome of the U.S. Capitol is reflected, on Jan. 6, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Image Imagine that your family has a generations-long tradition that requires that for every 10th dinner, you search your neighbors’ trash cans like raccoons and eat whatever garbage you find. Usually none of you asks why…

Josh Hawley Won’t Let Go of His Manhood

Josh Hawley Won’t Let Go of His Manhood

Favorite Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Across the ages, right-wing politics has had an enduring fixation: manliness, whatever that means exactly. You may remember that Hogan Gidley, the press secretary for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, declared that Trump…

I Really Think You Should Read Tucker Carlson’s Last Speech Before Fox Fired Him

I Really Think You Should Read Tucker Carlson’s Last Speech Before Fox Fired Him

Favorite Tucker Carlson gives a speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala in National Harbor, Md., on April 21, 2023. Photo: Leigh Vogel/The New York Times/Redux Soon the quadrillion online takes on Tucker Carlson’s firing by Fox News will be forgotten. Someday, Carlson himself will fade from human memory. Eventually people will think about…

With Pentagon Leak, the Press Had Their Source and Ate Him Too

With Pentagon Leak, the Press Had Their Source and Ate Him Too

Favorite Members of law enforcement assemble near the home of Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira on April 13, 2023, in Dighton, Mass. Photo: Steven Senne/AP Tracing the concept of homo sacer from antiquity to modern life, philosopher Giorgio Agamben cites the ancient Roman lexicographer Festus, who defined the term as someone “whom the people…

As Texas Judge Stalls, the Abortion Rights Movement Won’t Wait

As Texas Judge Stalls, the Abortion Rights Movement Won’t Wait

Favorite Anti-abortion and abortion rights activists protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 20, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A week before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk was expected to order the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval of the abortifacient mifepristone — effectively banning one of the…

No, Trading Flesh for Prison Time Is Not "Bodily Autonomy"

No, Trading Flesh for Prison Time Is Not "Bodily Autonomy"

Favorite Illustration: Jess Suttner for The Intercept Your liver or your liberty? Choose one. This is the proposition that a bill in the Massachusetts House of Representatives puts to people locked up in the commonwealth: Donate bone marrow or an organ or two, says HD 3822, and the Department of Correction will cut 60 to…