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THE NIMBUS, my debut novel—and one of The New Yorker's "best books of the year so far"—is out now. Find blurbs, reviews, and more at my website.
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Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times

ast September, seven months after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Yale historian Timoth…

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'The Left Edge of the Possible'

'The Left Edge of the Possible'

At the end of the eighties, the left wing of the Democratic Party was in bad shape. Democrats had lost five o…

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Inside the Democrats' Battle to Build Back Better

Inside the Democrats' Battle to Build Back Better

House progressives delayed the infrastructure bill to protect the rest of Biden's multitrillion-dollar agenda…

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The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea

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Benevolent Haze

Benevolent Haze

It was an old dream. In 1854, just after the peak of the gold rush, Ferdinand Ewer started a magazine, The Pi…

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Can Trump Really Speed Approval of Covid Treatments?

Can Trump Really Speed Approval of Covid Treatments?

Emergency-use authorizations, a formerly obscure corner of regulatory law, have become a centerpiece of the g…

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The Recurring Trauma of California's Wildfires

The Recurring Trauma of California's Wildfires

When Laurie Noble was growing up, in Fort Bragg, California, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, her family'…

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How Utah's Tech Industry Tried to Disrupt Coronavirus Testing

How Utah's Tech Industry Tried to Disrupt Coronavirus Testing

At a White House briefing, on April 23rd, Mike Pence offered what he described as "encouraging news" about CO…

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How Much Testing Does the U.S. Need to Reopen?

How Much Testing Does the U.S. Need to Reopen?

On a Saturday morning in mid-April, Maryland's governor, Larry Hogan, and his wife, Yumi, watched the landing…

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How Doctors on the Front Lines Are Confronting the Uncertainties of COVID-19

How Doctors on the Front Lines Are Confronting the Uncertainties of COVID-19

For Hooman Kamel, an intensivist at a Manhattan hospital, the weekend just before he started seeing COVID-19 …

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Why Widespread Coronavirus Testing Isn't Coming Anytime Soon

Why Widespread Coronavirus Testing Isn't Coming Anytime Soon

This past Thursday, Donald Trump visited the National Response Coordination Center for a teleconference with …

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What Went Wrong with Coronavirus Testing in the U.S.

What Went Wrong with Coronavirus Testing in the U.S.

On February 5th, sixteen days after a Seattle resident who had visited relatives in Wuhan, China, was diagnos…

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The Prosecution of President Donald Trump

The Prosecution of President Donald Trump

Near the end of the first full day of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, a Democratic staffer working on …

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The Art of the Democratic Deal

The Art of the Democratic Deal

Robert P. Baird writes about a trying week for Democrats in the House of Representatives, one which saw the a…

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"I've Never Seen Evidence So Clear": Inside the House Effort to Draft Articles of Impeachment

"I've Never Seen Evidence So Clear": Inside the House Effort to Draft Articles of Impeachment

In February, 1974, just as the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry into Watergate was getting und…

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The Public Stage of the House Impeachment Inquiry

The Public Stage of the House Impeachment Inquiry

Last week, the House impeachment inquiry, after weeks of depositions in a Sensitive Compartmented Information…

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The Circus Comes to the House Impeachment Inquiry

The Circus Comes to the House Impeachment Inquiry

A dispatch from the House impeachment inquiry.

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How the Hotshots of Helltown Fought the Deadliest Wildfire in a Century

How the Hotshots of Helltown Fought the Deadliest Wildfire in a Century

Last fall, when the deadliest blaze in America in a century blew through Northern California, thousands of pe…

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The ABCs of Jacobin

The ABCs of Jacobin

A profile of Jacobin magazine and its founder, Bhaskar Sunkara.

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Poetry's Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat

Poetry's Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat

Nonfiction DICKINSON'S NERVES, FROST'S WOODS Poetry in the Shadow of the Past By William Logan 396 pp. Columb…

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LRB · Robert Baird · Several Doses of Wendy: David Means

LRB · Robert Baird · Several Doses of Wendy: David Means

A review of David Means's first novel, Hystopia.

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