Soldier of Fortune
July 09, 2020
The private wars of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.
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Fool’s Gold
July 08, 2020
In Spike Lee's latest, black vets return to Vietnam.
Waste Away
July 07, 2020
Notes on Beirut’s broken sewage system.
From Ellen Degeneres’s Most Distressing Guest to Equally Distressing Insta-star: The Rise and Rise of a Young Gorgon
Short fiction by Lily Watson.
Tear Down This Statue
July 06, 2020
The strange career of Roger Sherman—the “Great Compromiser.”
Fresh Hell
July 03, 2020
End of the World (And I Feel Fine)
X-Rated Men
July 02, 2020
Of twinks and the men who love to exploit them.
Rank-and-File Revolt
While labor leaders drag their feet about police unions, members demand radical change.
Death, Disembodied
June 30, 2020
Notes on the end of funerals.
No Safe Haven
June 29, 2020
Two books consider how U.S. policy ravages the Northern Triangle.
Fresh Hell
June 26, 2020
Extremely Hot and Incredibly Stuffy
Burned in Paris
Frida Kahlo meets with Andre Breton in Paris, and things go downhill.