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It’s Fun to Be in the DSA!

Sarah Jaffe

November 16, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

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. ...

The Miseducation of Lady Bird

Lauren Oyler

November 15, 2017

Greta Gerwig's much-praised "Lady Bird" puts us all in a teenage wasteland.

Norms Follow Function

Maximillian Alvarez

November 15, 2017

The Poverty of Theory

Change is all the things you don’t notice.

23andUs

Jacob Silverman

November 14, 2017

The Future Sucked

Recently I’ve been stalked . . .

Sophia, with Love and Hate

Pedro Neves Marques

November 14, 2017

Meet Sophia, meritocratic bourgeois robot and nationalized citizen of Saudi Arabia.

Why Trump Is an Effective Negotiator

David Rees

November 13, 2017

Trump negotiates out of neediness. And—in some type of way—it works.

Poison Ivies

Chris Lehmann

November 13, 2017

The Blessed and the Brightest

Our top institutions of higher learning run bloated endowment funds designed for higher earning—and avoiding scrutiny.

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

November 10, 2017

Online is extremely fucked up. Here’s a truly wild look at the world of Kid’s YouTube, where algorithmically-driven content production is creating some really weird shit.   “Tell me about a complicated man.” The New York Times Magazine has a great profile of ...

Louie and Roy

Ann Neumann

November 10, 2017

Yesterday’s twin reports on Roy Moore and Louis CK remind us that sexual assault and women’s inequality are still everyone’s problem.

So Much Winning

Jason Linkins

November 09, 2017

There was no quibbling over what item on the menu might be more digestible---Virginia voters just carted off the whole buffet.

Regarding the Pain of Others

Nathaniel Friedman

November 08, 2017

Gordon Hayward's leg injury forces us to admit that we might die any day now, for no good reason, at exactly the wrong time in our lives.

Signs and Blunders

Judy Berman

November 08, 2017

Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" finds moral complexity where it needed moral certitude.