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Our leading political savants last week settled the sort of controversy that’s the NPR equivalent of an opioid rush—the proposition that “liberals hold the moral high ground.”
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Making an Ice Queen
December 11, 2017
I, Tonya’s tabloid palette and pop orchestration reflect the fact that a story, once told, can never really be retold.
Fresh Hell
December 08, 2017
Hire an “ambiance and atmosphere model” for your office holiday party.
Attractive men and women—but mostly women—are being hired in droves to pretend they’re guests at Silicon Valley holiday parties. You know, to lend an air of fun! Totally casual, ...
The Silence of the Burbs
December 07, 2017
The burbs have inspired iconic horrors in the past, from shopping zombies to mechanized housewives, so why does suburban gothic in 2017 lack oomph?
White Knight Syndrome
FBI agents Dale Cooper and James Comey are throwbacks to an idyllic past. They should stay there.
K Street Taxpocalypse
December 04, 2017
Neglect founded on hypocrisy regarding the deficit implications of giant tax cuts is not new for the GOP.
Reading like a Bureaucrat
December 04, 2017
“Perhaps it is just as well that writers do not have political power,” wrote Steinbeck after receiving ideas from Faulkner.
Fresh Hell
December 01, 2017
This motherfucker’s name is CHAZ.
Novelist Emma Cline has a shitty ex-boyfriend who puts our shitty ex-boyfriends to shame. This shitty ex-boyfriend hired a shitty lawyer to do incredibly shitty things. Hopefully both the shitty ex and the shitty lawyer get ...
Show Workers the Money!
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. ...
Sucking Up to the Saudis
Thomas Friedman imagines a Saudi-led moderation, yet militant protests in Pakistan suggest otherwise.
Paradise Tossed
November 30, 2017
Stephen Greenblatt’s new book blames everything on Adam and Eve, but not in a religious way.
The Precocious Socialist
High school is a noise opera of capitalist blathering. It sort of gets better?