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March 23, 2018
It seems our collective penchant for plastic straws may actually spell our doom.
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Man Out of Time
March 23, 2018
Pete Peterson was another billionaire who was so concerned with the federal deficit that he preached the need for austerity—for the rest of us.
What in God’s Name Happened to Ricky Gervais?
March 22, 2018
Somewhere over the last decade, Ricky Gervais lost it. His nosedive is fairly puzzling: in just a few years, the man who inaugurated a new era of TV with The Office went from one of the most original voices in comedy to a complete gasbag. His stand-up comedy is excruciating, his ...
The Cambridge Analytica Con
March 21, 2018
“The man with the proper imagination is able to conceive of any commodity in such a way that it becomes an object of emotion to him and to those to whom he imparts his picture, and hence creates desire rather than a mere feeling of ought.”
—Walter Dill Scott, Influencing ...
Fucking the Patriarch
March 21, 2018
In three new novels, women protagonists overturn the "sage older man seduces beautiful ingénue" trope.
The Techies Who Said Sorry
March 20, 2018
Who will help us fix our broken internet? Who will free us from the tyranny of the smartphone?
As Stalin Lay Dying
March 20, 2018
Is The Death of Stalin too good to be true, or not true enough to be good?
Bankers’ Robberies
How much shady dealing can one bank get away with? Take a look at the record of rolling heists at Wells Fargo.
Cold War Fever
March 19, 2018
"Red Sparrow" is another in a long line of Cold War spy stories that feature the Russians as our natural enemies.
Fresh Hell
March 16, 2018
As it turns out, enforcing structural inequality pays pretty damn well.
The Ex is Calling
Our advice columnist with a word of caution: sometimes remaining friends with an ex is not a good idea.
Stranger Than Fiction
March 14, 2018
How Donald J. Trump's campaign ruined my outlandish political satire about a right-wing demagogue running for president.