Stormbound
September 22, 2017
Never in fifty years of living in the Sunshine State had they seen anything like Irma.
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Swords Into Marketshare
September 21, 2017
What if we had an LGBT movement that centered on getting trans people—and everyone else—out of prison, instead of into the military?
The Fatberg Cometh
On September 4, Princess Catherine announced her third child. It took eight days. By September 12, a titanic fatberg had been found under London.
Total Attention Deficit
You've reached attention span zero? Log off, take a breath, and read a printed object.
The Jihadist Personal Essay
The personal essay survives, it has simply moved house. Its new and surprising habitat is the jihadist magazine.
The Past Is a Foreign Agent
September 19, 2017
The maestro of spy fiction mourns our geopolitical malaise.
A Wonk on the Wild Side
Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" is less a campaign postmortem than a wonk’s lament.
Weekly Bafflements
September 15, 2017
Steve Bannon loves two things: racism and layering.
An Uneven Disaster
September 15, 2017
A Q&A with Ashley Dawson, author of "Extreme Cities."
Tragic Kingdom
HBO’s The Deuce traces exploitation in the porn industry back to 1970s Times Square—before its total Disneyfication.
Mark Lilla’s Comfort Zone
September 14, 2017
How liberal discourse flattens out the work of critical race analysis.
New Iconoclasms
The modern history of art is a history of its removal and destruction.