Tuesday
February 23, 2021

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland awakened a violent chapter in our history—and vowed to write a new one.

By Melissa Gira Grant

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	Facebook Just Successfully Bullied the Sovereign Nation of Australia The government wanted tech giants to share ad profits with media outlets. Mark Zuckerberg retaliated—and it worked. Is the U.S. next?By Jacob Silverman

	The Sadism of Eating Real Meat Over Lab Meat The rise of cellular agriculture will force consumers to consider the moral consequences of torturing and killing animals for food.By Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg

	The Sunday Shows Are Hopelessly Broken They are credulous, old-fashioned, and totally unprepared to deal with a radicalized Republican Party.By Alex Shephard

	The Sordid Story of the Most Successful Political Party in the World How the Tories became unbeatableBy Samuel Earle

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	The Grand American Tradition of Price-Gouging in an Emergency The five-figure energy bills Texans are now facing aren’t an accident: The system was designed this way.By Nick Martin

	How the Barbizon Hotel Defined Women’s Ambition Grace Kelly, Joan Didion, and Sylvia Plath were all guests. For some women, it was a launch pad. For others, it was a trap.By Maggie Doherty

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