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Do No Harm

Jess McAllen

November 29, 2020

Two centuries’ worth of dispute about suicide prevention burst into the pop culture zeitgeist when 13 Reasons Why was aired by Netflix in March of 2017. The “passion project” of Disney protégé Selena Gomez, it is centered on thirteen tapes pre-recorded by moody beauty ...

Death of a Poet

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

November 27, 2020

The peculiar tragedy of J P Clark-Bekederemo.

Sex and Sensibility

Corinne Manning

November 25, 2020

On Mattilda Sycamore’s The Freezer Door

Eat Your Vegetables

Alicia Kennedy

November 24, 2020

On Deborah Madison and the “taint” of vegetarianism

Talk Less, Work More

Namit Arora

November 23, 2020

On India’s troubled relationship with democratic values.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

November 20, 2020

This little piggy got Covid-19 and died.

Fueling Resistance

Ratik Asokan

November 20, 2020

Challenging left development stratergies in Latin America.

Mad MAGA Men

Rafia Zakaria

November 20, 2020

Alienated

Right-wing radio performs the "no surrender" routine.

Utopia, No

Sophie Lewis

November 19, 2020

Entitled’s vision of feminism is shorn of both future and past.

The Oregon Model

Zachary Siegel

November 17, 2020

Oregon has decriminalized all drugs—but it’s only the first step

The Parties Decide

Adam Kotsko

November 16, 2020

The two parties agree on one thing: continued domination by only two parties.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

November 13, 2020

34 NSFW Gifs to Look at While Using Our Proprietary Vibrator