Plucking, Primping, and Politicking
July 17, 2025
Eric Adams leads the Big Apple from the beautician’s chair.
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Scam Nation
July 16, 2025
Trump wants to refashion the CFPB in his own image.
Loving the Alien
July 15, 2025
“Time may tell.”
Real Human Bones for Sale
“Everything in America is about genocide.”
Deadly Slop
July 10, 2025
Militarized AI is billed as an expedient war machine—though its effect is often anything but.
Alien Enemies
July 09, 2025
The fascist turn is not sharp. It is a relinquishment of the disguise.
The Uneasy Oligarchy
July 08, 2025
The ruling class is not just at odds with the state—it is at war with itself.
Gimme Boer
July 03, 2025
Every May, as the city starts to heat up again, New Yorkers begin their annual pilgrimages down to Brighton Beach, a bustling post-Soviet-populated enclave on the shores of the Atlantic. This year, around the same time that beachgoers and babushkas alike were taking their first ...
Worker’s Song
July 02, 2025
What’s new about the “new music labor movement”?
Through the Opera Glass
July 01, 2025
Peter Gelb’s mismanagement of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Can we stop acting as if all this is normal?
Scientific Methods
June 26, 2025
Does MAGA really want to destroy science?