The Queer Art of Failing Better
July 24, 2018
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Revolutionaries for Hire
July 24, 2018
On May 1 I went out to the Worker’s Day parade in Milan. It was supposed to be a day of unity and celebration. Instead, I saw people who shared the same political culture and almost the same political affiliation clash violently over the Syrian flags they were waving: the ...
Mermaid Mania
July 23, 2018
Samantha Hunt's
Jacked Up
Today's right-wing Russia collusion looks a lot like yesterday's Abramoff entanglements.
Fresh Hell
July 20, 2018
Burn, Burberry, burn!
Don’t Let Them Win
Politics is endless war; silence will not protect you.
Et tu, Boris?
July 20, 2018
Like a hastily constructed IKEA Hemnes, the UK’s Cabinet is falling apart again. It all kicked off two weeks ago, when Theresa May invited ministers on a weekend jaunt to her country residence Chequers to nail down a negotiating position on Brexit. By Monday morning, the jelly ...
Heart in a Black Box
The ways of the heart can be mysterious, but heartbreak itself can be downright unfathomable.
Freedom to Bash Heads
July 18, 2018
You are cordially invited to engage in civil discourse with the Proud Boys.
Hyperspeed of the Immediate
July 18, 2018
The Nostalgia Trap podcast, hosted by David Parsons and produced by Peter Sabatino, features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect ...
WorryFree™ and Always on Script
July 17, 2018
Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You faces race and abasement in a battered republic.
A Shoot-Em-Up for the Resistance
July 17, 2018
Thirty minutes into his 2017 BAFTA Games Lecture, Far Cry 5’s executive producer Dan Hay explained his inspiration for the game. He’s a cold war kid of the literal sort, having spent the anxious eighties watching history happen all around him. The next ten or so years were ...