Author: Niela Orr

Columns

New People, Old Words

Niela Orr

August 14, 2017

Danzy Senna’s hilarious New People honors the canon of American works that take on multiracial identity.

Who’s Afraid of Hostile Love?

Amber A’Lee Frost

August 09, 2017

Your friends, a couple, won’t stop fighting? Don’t become the third wheel on a tricycle of romantic hatred.

The Norwegians Who Mistook Their Bus Seats for Muslims

Sam Kriss

August 09, 2017

The enemy is hiding, building its armies, gathering its strength, in the most terrifying place possible: in non-existence.

Malign Intervention

Vincent Bevins

August 08, 2017

We aren't the good guys that sometimes make mistakes. We are often the bad guys.

Al Gore’s Pivot to Idiocy

Matthew Miles Goodrich

August 07, 2017

Gore is constitutionally incapable of telling a story that is resonant with Americans who have had futures set to flame.

Sweet, Sweet Phantasy

Tom Whyman

August 03, 2017

Corbyn supporters have chosen the playful magic of phantasy over the reality principle, and it's starting to work.

Over Our Heads

Dave Denison

August 03, 2017

I was wandering in a smoldering landscape, knowing that nothing could be done. The decisions had been made.

Media for the Apocalypse

Corey Pein

August 02, 2017

Corey scopes out the far-right media landscape, from AmRen to Infowars, with Jason Wilson.

Cogito Zero Sum

Maximillian Alvarez

August 02, 2017

We're beholden to essentialist, Cartesian thinking about our selves—it's balkanizing opinion.

Ode to the Liberal Muslim

Rafia Zakaria

August 01, 2017

A community under siege threatens to become a community in stasis, inching toward stagnation.

Wack Political Economy

Max B. Sawicky

August 01, 2017

The real conflict in the White House is the remarkable tussle between Trump and his attorney-general, Jeff Sessions.

In Defense of the Money Phone

Niela Orr

July 31, 2017

JAY-Z has come out against the ostentatious kitsch of rap’s nouveau riche. We prefer the money phone.