Author: Matt Cameron

Columns

Before the Law in Tijuana

Matt Cameron

January 15, 2019

The small plaza outside El Chaparral is, for many migrants, the closest they’ll ever stand to American soil.

Exit Through the Novelty Exhibition

Kyle Paoletta

January 04, 2019

Novelty exhibitions are onanistic celebrations of their subjects, and they're all the rage in the art world.

Eat Your Chart Out

Jon Greenaway

January 02, 2019

The online right has a whole host of aesthetic quirks, among them a genuine obsession with terrible charts.

Sleeping Rough in the Mattress Economy

Ed Burmila

December 17, 2018

We've lowered the bar of aspirational living from condos to mattresses.

Not How the Internet Happened

Bradley Babendir

December 14, 2018

A new history of the internet succumbs to hagiography and subservient yarn-spinning.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Prosecutions

Paul Pelletier

December 12, 2018

Mueller is now preparing his report and the final charges against the remaining rogues gallery.

Streambait Pop

Liz Pelly

December 11, 2018

Behold the emergence of streambait pop—the total Spotify genre.

Death and Taxes

Bruce Bartlett

December 01, 2018

Forces within the GOP intentionally destroyed Bush, putting the far right in complete control of the party’s ideology.

Ways of Seeing the New South

Matthew McKnight

November 27, 2018

The pictures in "New Southern Photography," with few exceptions, depict a segregated world.

Apex Predators and Elena Ferrante

G’Ra Asim

November 26, 2018

Once Audrey and I had drifted uneasily to sleep, the bat emerged seemingly from nowhere and soared about the room . . .

The House of Markle

Rivkah Brown

November 19, 2018

When the Royal Family admitted Meghan to Windsor Castle, they pulled up the drawbridge.

Solutionism for Students

Richard A. Greenwald

November 15, 2018

The authors of "The Coddling of the American Mind" diagnose a generation of students and then offer a cure—mass therapy.