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The Dog Delusion

G’Ra Asim

September 01, 2017

I just wonder if there’s something dangerous about championing a dependent, hierarchical relationship as an ideal realization of love or friendship.

Who’s Afraid of the Russian Soul?

Hannah Gais

August 31, 2017

This American Carnage

To speak of the character or “soul” of an entire country—one that spans two continents—is to give up on understanding out of preference for feelings.

Whitewash

Chris Lehmann

August 31, 2017

The Jaundiced Eyeball

Like a recumbent sloth jolted into a panicked flight response, David Brooks has belatedly noticed the rancid politics of right-wing racial confrontation.

Camping Trip

Corey Pein

August 30, 2017

News from Nowhere

Corey Pein talks with Andrea Pitzer about concentration camps.

Finger-Lickin’ Lulz

Katherine Cross

August 30, 2017

KFC’s creepy virtual-reality publicity stunt is but a hint of things to come in the exciting world of late capitalism’s cyberpunk dystopia.

The Pizzagate Polity

Melissa Gira Grant

August 29, 2017

When Trump talks tough on sex trafficking, Pizzagate conspiracy theorists hear him singing their song.

Mattress Mack Will Save You

Micah Fields

August 28, 2017

I must admit I am a tad ticked that it has taken destructive winds and inundation to land my city on the minds of the cultured.

The Destructive Character

Niela Orr

August 28, 2017

Bread and Circuses

So long as straight white men rule culture and politics, the dangerous oddball white guy will linger in media.

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

August 25, 2017

“The do-nothing option is pretty gruesome.” As a hurricane heads toward Texas, take a minute to read this 2016 piece from the New York Times which outlines the potential devastation of just such a scenario.   Seriously though, everyone knew this was coming. The Texas ...

General McMaster and the Miniskirts

Rafia Zakaria

August 24, 2017

Alienated

It was the miniskirts that did it. For many long months of Donald Trump’s unhinged presidency, his collection of stern-faced generals had been begging to send more troops into Afghanistan to stop hemorrhaging losses to the ascendant Taliban. The president did not want to do ...

Élite Politesse

Kyle Paoletta

August 23, 2017

When, in 2012, the copy editor Mary Norris took to The New Yorker’s website to defend its comma usage against the charge that it was “nutty,” a new era in the history of the magazine’s style was inaugurated. Norris was suddenly impossible to escape, extemporizing on ...

The People’s Platform Goes to Washington

Sarah Jaffe

August 23, 2017

Interviews for Resistance

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...