The Usual Suspects
November 07, 2017
The Kevin Spacey scandal highlights the problem of “the open secret.”
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Is Anyone Relating?
Lady Dynamite’s Maria Bamford confronts our financial anxieties, which are exacerbated by the famous and wealthy.
Joe Ricketts, Media Destroyer
November 06, 2017
As the old refrain goes, at Gothamist and DNAinfo the union made us strong---not Joe Ricketts, not his money, not his decisions and certainly not his “direction.”
Weekly Bafflements
November 03, 2017
Your boss doesn’t care about you.
In a move that’s brazenness is only rivaled by its dickishness, billionaire Joe Ricketts opted to shut down local news outlets Gothamist and DNAinfo rather than allow his employees to unionize.
Tumblr is truly wild.
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Reverse Robin Hoods
November 03, 2017
Tax reform is but one gust in the current hurricane of news flashes, but it may prove to have very long-lasting effects.
Spielberg’s Children
In the HBO special "Spielberg," the subject is hard to know but it's not hard to know why: it all goes back to his childhood.
Maneka’s Punk Pulpit
November 02, 2017
Devin McKnight's new project asks if a racial slur can ever be weaponized to redistributive ends.
Belladonna
Through the closed windows enter gigantic crabs. We’re Stalin’s crabs, they say, we’re the Red Army of Stalin’s crabs, red royal crabs.
What the Bolsheviks Saw
A re-imagining of the events of October 1917, by one of one of the edgiest and most political of writers working today.
Re-defining Manhood
October 31, 2017
As I've watched the Weinstein saga unfold, I cannot help but think of my mother.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
October 31, 2017
Welcome to Mueller time. The indictments have begun.
Don’t Troll, Organize
The whole point of the new breed of cloistered, self-dramatizing liberal protest is to create an activist version of the Harvard credo of success: once you’re in, you’re in.