✕Erin Scott/Pool via AP Go to the Facebook account of newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and you’ll find that she supports the lunatic theories that the massacres of schoolchildren in Newtown and Parkland were events staged to promote gun control. Today, House Republican leaders decided that this concern for murdered children made her eminently qualified to serve on the House Education Committee, to which they appointed her.By now, it’s clear that House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) more than merits the judgment that Lyndon Johnson once passed on a previous House...…✕Erin Scott/Pool via AP Go to the Facebook account of newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and you’ll find that she supports the lunatic theories that the massacres of schoolchildren in Newtown and Parkland were events staged to promote gun control. Today, House Republican leaders decided that this concern for murdered children made her eminently qualified to serve on the House Education Committee, to which they appointed her.By now, it’s clear that House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) more than merits the judgment that Lyndon Johnson once passed on a previous House...WW…

Steven Senne/AP Photo President Biden’s Department of Labor will be able to restore some wages to tipped workers that Trump’s department has proposed to take away. This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles .In its last dying days, the Trump administration is busily at work depriving American workers of rights they previously held. Civil servants are threatened with having their jobs reclassified so Trump can fire them, a threat that encompasses at the Office of Management...…Steven Senne/AP Photo President Biden’s Department of Labor will be able to restore some wages to tipped workers that Trump’s department has proposed to take away. This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles .In its last dying days, the Trump administration is busily at work depriving American workers of rights they previously held. Civil servants are threatened with having their jobs reclassified so Trump can fire them, a threat that encompasses at the Office of Management...WW…

Andrew Harnik/AP Photo President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday It takes extraordinary good fortune these days for opinion-piece readers to miss the flood of articles calling on Joe Biden to be a down-the-line moderate. The Wall Street Journal featured two such pieces on Wednesday, one from , the other from , the latter a former Republican senator known for his vehement opposition to every piece of economic regulation dating back to the biblical injunction that workers should be paid. (Who’s this Yahweh telling employers what they should and shouldn’t do?)The focus on...…Andrew Harnik/AP Photo President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday It takes extraordinary good fortune these days for opinion-piece readers to miss the flood of articles calling on Joe Biden to be a down-the-line moderate. The Wall Street Journal featured two such pieces on Wednesday, one from , the other from , the latter a former Republican senator known for his vehement opposition to every piece of economic regulation dating back to the biblical injunction that workers should be paid. (Who’s this Yahweh telling employers what they should and shouldn’t do?)The focus on...WW…

Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images Are we destined to be forever so self-destructively exceptional? On its 244th birthday, the United States is still exceptional. And it’s killing us.Though just 4 percent of the planet’s people are Americans, our nation, by the most meaningful metric of a country’s power, still dominates the world. At 24 percent, America’s share of the world economy is still far greater than that of any other nation.On the other hand, while we tally just that 4 percent of earthlings, we constitute a mind-boggling 25 percent of the earthlings who’ve come down with COVID-19...…Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images Are we destined to be forever so self-destructively exceptional? On its 244th birthday, the United States is still exceptional. And it’s killing us.Though just 4 percent of the planet’s people are Americans, our nation, by the most meaningful metric of a country’s power, still dominates the world. At 24 percent, America’s share of the world economy is still far greater than that of any other nation.On the other hand, while we tally just that 4 percent of earthlings, we constitute a mind-boggling 25 percent of the earthlings who’ve come down with COVID-19...WW…

Chris Seward/AP Photo Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, one of the U.S. Army bases named for Confederate figures Well, almost.One of the latest chapters (they all come so quickly) in the ever-expanding volume Can You Believe What Our Asshole President Just Said? concerns Trump’s support for keeping the names of Confederate military leaders on U.S. Army bases, even though Defense Secretary Mark Esper and a host of retired military leaders favor dumping those names ASAP.After citing Forts Bragg and Hood in his tweets, Trump continued:These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a...…Chris Seward/AP Photo Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, one of the U.S. Army bases named for Confederate figures Well, almost.One of the latest chapters (they all come so quickly) in the ever-expanding volume Can You Believe What Our Asshole President Just Said? concerns Trump’s support for keeping the names of Confederate military leaders on U.S. Army bases, even though Defense Secretary Mark Esper and a host of retired military leaders favor dumping those names ASAP.After citing Forts Bragg and Hood in his tweets, Trump continued:These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a...WW…

Paul Sancya/AP Photo Armed protesters returned to the Michigan State Capitol on Thursday to oppose the governor’s stay-at-home orders. When a passel of far-right nutjobs stomps through the halls of state capitols brandishing loaded assault weapons, well, yes—it’s news, it merits a lot of coverage.At the same time, that coverage shouldn’t leave viewers or readers with the impression that this tribe of Trumpistas, anti-vaxxers, and flat-earthers are giving voice to a silent majority that’s had it with sheltering in place and social distancing and wants nothing so much as to open everything...…Paul Sancya/AP Photo Armed protesters returned to the Michigan State Capitol on Thursday to oppose the governor’s stay-at-home orders. When a passel of far-right nutjobs stomps through the halls of state capitols brandishing loaded assault weapons, well, yes—it’s news, it merits a lot of coverage.At the same time, that coverage shouldn’t leave viewers or readers with the impression that this tribe of Trumpistas, anti-vaxxers, and flat-earthers are giving voice to a silent majority that’s had it with sheltering in place and social distancing and wants nothing so much as to open everything...WW…

Evan Vucci/AP Photo We don’t have the luxury of waiting for a socialist candidate to take on Trump and capitalism. It’s not only those who forget history who may be condemned to relive it. Less forgivably, some who remember history condemn themselves, and others, to endure horrors they clearly recall.No one can argue that Bhaskar Sunkara, the founder and editor of Jacobin, doesn’t remember history—socialist history particularly. His book The Socialist Manifesto, published last year, contains the best short (150-page) evaluative history of socialism in thought and action that’s appeared in...…Evan Vucci/AP Photo We don’t have the luxury of waiting for a socialist candidate to take on Trump and capitalism. It’s not only those who forget history who may be condemned to relive it. Less forgivably, some who remember history condemn themselves, and others, to endure horrors they clearly recall.No one can argue that Bhaskar Sunkara, the founder and editor of Jacobin, doesn’t remember history—socialist history particularly. His book The Socialist Manifesto, published last year, contains the best short (150-page) evaluative history of socialism in thought and action that’s appeared in...WW…