President Lisa Simpson
October 04, 2017
Lover of austerity economics, mouthpiece of an educated elite. Behold the future: President Lisa Simpson.
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The Bananas-Ass Ex-Friend
So you wife's ex-friend is a psycho, bunny boiling nut job. Find the nearest escape route!
Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State
October 03, 2017
Our debates over gun ownership typically revolve instead around a potent set of myths that cloud our historical understanding.
What Happened?
October 03, 2017
"Nasty Women," a new collection of feminist writing, has one eye on the future and one foot in the election.
Underwriters of the World, Ideate!
October 02, 2017
Report from the Washington Ideas Forum. What dilemma exists that cannot be gently confronted by a platitude-spouting meritocracy?
Getting Schooled
The chief lesson of the great liberal education fetish has always been to carelessly offload the savage inequalities of our economic order for our schools to rectify.
Weekly Bafflements
September 29, 2017
Hugh Hefner died. You are Jonathan Chait’s enemy. Meme queens of the Fourth Reich.
Plunged Into Darkness
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. ...
Mommy Issues
The Mom's March, set to be a right-wing answer to the anti-Trump Women's March back in January, was a bust. Why?
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
It seemed that the celebrity sex tape had gone the way of the dodo or the Juicy Couture tracksuit—a relic of early-aughts paparazzi quarry—until recently, that is. In early September, a woman claimed she had a sex tape featuring Usher. And a little more than a week ago, it ...
Zucktown, USA
September 27, 2017
American tech giants are now building their own company towns.
Together for What?
September 26, 2017
Ben Roethlisberger couldn’t sleep Sunday night, and on Monday afternoon the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback decided that he could remain silent no longer. Donald Trump had leaned blearily into an ad-lib encouraging NFL owners to take a firm hand with players who kneel in ...