Mind Out of Time
The work of Urdu writer Naiyer Masud depicts a world of fading aristocrats and the drifting poor.
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Thwarting a “United Right” in Charlottesville
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 ...
New People, Old Words
Danzy Senna’s hilarious New People honors the canon of American works that take on multiracial identity.
The Long Battle for Medicaid
A conversation with Sarah Christopherson
Weekly Bafflements
August 11, 2017
Some good stories that we didn't publish.
Art After Social Collapse
The belief that art should become therapeutic, or that it should devote itself to comfort, is everywhere in society.
Who’s Afraid of Hostile Love?
Your friends, a couple, won’t stop fighting? Don’t become the third wheel on a tricycle of romantic hatred.
The Norwegians Who Mistook Their Bus Seats for Muslims
The enemy is hiding, building its armies, gathering its strength, in the most terrifying place possible: in non-existence.
Malign Intervention
August 08, 2017
We aren't the good guys that sometimes make mistakes. We are often the bad guys.
Al Gore’s Pivot to Idiocy
August 07, 2017
Gore is constitutionally incapable of telling a story that is resonant with Americans who have had futures set to flame.
Weekly Bafflements
August 04, 2017
Release the tapes
Despite David Frum’s pearl clutching over our precious norms, it should be obvious to anyone that the deluge of leaks coming from this administration is a good thing. In the New Republic, Brian Beutler lays out an argument that embarrassment over leaks might ...
Emboldened Fight for Health Care as a Right
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the U.S. 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 what it is ...