Adam Serwer
He is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Cruelty Is the Point. Adam has previously been a recipient of the 2021 Moment Magazine Robert S. Greenberger Journalism award, the 2019 Hillman Prize for opinion journalism, and the 2019 Salute to Excellence Award for commentary from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Why Conservatives Invented a ‘Right to Post’
You have a right to free speech as long as you are saying what conservatives want you to say.
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Youssef Loulidi / Fantasista / Getty The Psychological Test of Japan’s Finale
The Samurai Blue’s loss against Croatia showed that scoring penalties is a distinct art.
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Liu Lu / VCG / Getty The Cursed Goal
Belgium’s elimination from the World Cup showed that sometimes, for no apparent reason, the ball just won’t go in.
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Clive Mason / Getty Ghana’s Grudge Match
Twelve years ago, Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez blocked Ghana’s shot at the semifinals with a handball. On Friday, they’ll get a chance to bite back.
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The Atlantic Rebelling Against Trump Is Not the Same as Rebelling Against Trumpism
Even if Trump himself departs the scene, conservative demand for his approach to politics will remain.
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Alessandro Sabattini / Getty The Sport of Short Kings
Soccer is where mini monarchs reign supreme.
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Lucasfilm Ltd / Disney+ Star Wars Gets Political
But not in the way you might think.
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Michelle McLoughlin / Reuters The Martyrdom of Alex Jones
Right-wing anger over a defamation judgment reflects disgust at seeing the rules applied to them.
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Matt York / AP Deleting the Right to Record the Police
An Arizona law seeks to solve the problem of police misconduct by preventing anyone from documenting it.
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Getty; The Atlantic Fear of a Black Hobbit
The demand to keep politics out of art is too often a demand for art to conform to conservative politics.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Right to Free Speech Is Not the Right to Monologue
The attack on Salman Rushdie was not a product of modern social-justice discourse.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Right-Wing War on Free Speech Could Backfire
Progressives aren’t the only ones who need free-speech protections.
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Mark Thiessen / AP Republicans Have Only Themselves to Blame for Their Alaskan Defeat
For Trumpists, no system that results in a Republican loss can be considered legitimate.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty If It Were Anyone Else, They’d Be Prosecuted
A revealing photo removed any remaining ambiguity.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Drew Angerer / Getty; … Conservatives Believe Trump Is Above the Law
Republicans’ reflexive insistence that the Mar-a-Lago raid is politically motivated is unmoored from the available evidence.
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The Atlantic; THEPALMER / Getty Republicans’ Cowardly Excuses for Not Protecting Marriage Equality
There is absolutely no reason to believe that fundamental rights of same-sex couples are safe.
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Brooks Kraft / Getty; Mark Wilson / Getty; … Is Democracy Constitutional?
In Moore v. Harper the Supreme Court will decide if anyone besides itself should be able to adjudicate American election law.
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The Atlantic The Myth That America’s Abortion Laws Are More Permissive Than Europe’s
By making a false comparison, GOP apparatchiks hope to cushion the political fallout of Roe’s demise.
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Thomas J. O'Halloran / Library of Congress Dobbs Is No Brown v. Board of Education
Conservatives think they are righting a historical wrong, but the two decisions represent entirely different approaches to the law.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Don’t Forget That 43 Senate Republicans Let Trump Get Away With It
The former president attempted to violently overthrow the government of the United States, and his party ensured that he would face no consequences for doing so.
