Weekend Reader

Required Reading for Political Compulsives

1.

What Can Stephen Breyer’s Successor Accomplish? The Supreme Court’s liberals can try to forge a consensus, or use their perch to call out a conservative supermajority.

By Irin Carmon

2.

Was Larry Summers Right All Along? How the ultimate Establishment figure became the preeminent critic of the Biden era’s economic consensus.

By Eric Levitz

3.

Diamond Hands in the Rough Watching billions get wiped out doesn’t shake a new kind of trader who’s used to 24/7 crypto chaos.

By Kevin T. Dugan

4.

The Republican Party’s Anti-Vaxx Wing Is Too Big to Fail Too late to purge the kooks.

By Jonathan Chait

5.

Stephen Breyer and the End of the Apolitical Supreme Court Even John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett claim to be above politics. But Breyer may be the last justice to actually believe it.

By Ed Kilgore

6.

The Right Has Mastered Cancel Culture Glenn Youngkin’s anti-CRT hotline exemplifies an illiberal trend.

By Sarah Jones

7.

Partisanship Made the Omicron Crisis Worse Could America have averted a huge wave of COVID deaths?

By Eric Levitz

8.

Will Sinema and Manchin Screw This Up? Nothing may unite Democrats better than putting the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

By Ben Jacobs

9.

The Return of New York’s Most Notorious Cops The new mayor and police commissioner want to fight gun crime by bringing back anti-crime units, which were disbanded after a history of abuse.

By Nia Prater

10.

The Baseball Hall of Fame Is As Broken As Everything Else in America The moral uncertainty of the steroid era has left the venerable institution in a dark place.

By Ben Jacobs

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