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PSYCHISM

Gordon Lish

May 31, 2018

Fine. Prison would do me good, wouldn't it?

Somebody Else’s Babies

Matt Cameron

May 30, 2018

Feeding children to the deportation machine

The National Hologram

Will Harrison

May 28, 2018

Stephen Shore's widely praised MoMA retrospective perpetrates the myth of an objective America.

The Madness of King Musk

Jacob Silverman

May 25, 2018

Tesla's foundering founder is on a wild tear

Dublin in My Tears

Barbara Felder

May 25, 2018

Today Ireland votes on Amendment Eight

Hell is for Other People

Kelly J. Baker

May 24, 2018

Come Sunday considers the price of self-doubt.

Of Damages and Dog Whistles

Amber A’Lee Frost

May 23, 2018

These are your coworkers, and you can address their racism subtly and without scolding them.

Vanity Foul

Soraya Roberts

May 22, 2018

One hundred years after the puff piece floated into our consciousness, it is being swept aside by a new kind of celebrity profile.

#churchtoo

Becky Garrison

May 21, 2018

With #churchtoo, Christian women are calling out sexual assault and coercion, too.

Dendrophile Diplomacy

Rivkah Brown

May 18, 2018

Like someone with a cat allergy as incurable as their love of cats, the Queen brings my dad out in a rash. So overwhelmed with joy is he when he sees his monarch that he promptly bursts into tears. Official birthdays, Queen’s speeches, London Fashion Week—he’s hysterical. ...

Give Me Liberty or Something Else

Emily Cataneo

May 17, 2018

CalExit gets all the headlines, but the stubborn New England states are home to plenty of secessionist tendencies, too.

Antifascism and the Left’s Fear of Power

Maximillian Alvarez

May 16, 2018

This article has been adapted from a talk delivered at Purdue University on April 18, 2018, hosted by the Purdue chapter of the Campus Antifascist Network. In the United States today people tend to squirm with profound discomfort, if not sneer with outright revulsion, when they ...