Communicator Breakdown
January 31, 2018
Trump’s fledgling State of the Union deliberately sought to conceal a multitude of sins.
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Kitchen-Sink Drama
Help! I would like to salvage this garbage fire of a relationship, but I need his mom out of my fridge and out of my life.
Cradle to Grave
January 30, 2018
Like abortion, the lack of action on maternal mortality is connected to ideology. Under capitalism, a woman’s body is a means of production like any other.
The Reaching-Out Industry
January 30, 2018
A whole new cottage industry has popped up seeking a more earnest, direct conversation, begging Trump voters to sit down and explain: how exactly did we get this way?
No Re-Turning Point, U.S.A.
When I look at TPUSA, I don’t see an organization looking for dialogue—I see an occupying force.
Fresh Hell
January 26, 2018
Pass Go, Collect $2.8 billion.
This week, Amazon inched us further into our nightmarish future with the opening of Amazon Go: a grocery store without checkout lines or cashiers but chock full of cameras that sense, record, and charge you automatically for every impulse ...
Presidential Confusion
January 26, 2018
Imagine being a presidential scholar in this moment when the highest office in the land has been captured by a barely literate showman.
Your Faceprint Tomorrow
Facial recognition technology has marched unimpeded into the commercial sphere—the consequences are staggering.
No Filter
January 24, 2018
What is perhaps as consistent as the badness of Instapoetry is the general unwillingness to speak openly of its badness.
Engineered for Dystopia
January 24, 2018
Some of the first people to be called “engineers" operated siege engines.
The Peasants of Code
January 23, 2018
Big tech's cure for Appalachia's ills? Learn to code!