Chris Bray

New “Intellistreets” street lights being installed in Las Vegas will have video screens, because the one thing we definitely don’t have enough of in our day-to-day lives is video screens. But the streetlights won’t just talk. They’ll also have the ...

It was the antecedent, the organization that “placed federal officials for the first time in U.S. history in direct and intimate contact with the bodies of ordinary people.” And it was a disaster, a years-long horror show that led to enormous numbers of ghastly ...

In an essay so deep and worthy that it just showed up up in two helplessly respectable places in the space of a few days, Alex Seitz-Wald sighs a world-weary sigh and tosses the United States Constitution overboard. “Our Constitution isn’t going to make it,” he ...

East Germany, you guys totally blew it. All those decades in which Checkpoint Charlie stood blank and advertisement-less were a lost opportunity. In America, luckily, we do things differently. Today the airport security checkpoint—that special place where sobbing ...

Politicians move their precious goalposts. That’s what they do, and so it is to be expected. But with the unveiling of HealthCare.gov, America has borne witness to an epic goalpost shift the likes of which we haven’t seen since those bygone days leading up to the second time ...

The contretemps over the Affordable Care Act reminds us again of the degree to which the hothouse flowers of the American executive branch are simply unable to speak or even string together words that have some meaning or connection to the topic being discussed. Take Kathleen ...

The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. Two new reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch describe the American drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen that have boldly taken on the terrorists who hate America. One such terrorist is ...

I love you, Jonathan Chait. I never want to be without you or your ridiculous brilliance. In a stroke of accidental genius, New York magazine columnist Chait stripped bare the mask of establishment journalism, revealing himself and his ilk so perfectly that I wanted to pull over ...