Worst Laid Plans
April 12, 2023
Imperial overreach in the Middle East.
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TikTok on the Clock
April 11, 2023
Is this the end for TikTok?
Fresh Hell
April 07, 2023
Babes in Oyland
Life begins, language and memory dawn as the skull grows hard, and the digestion adapts to solids; the future is full of promise. But since disappointment, emotional scar tissue, and debt await you anyway, why not get the ball rolling and become traumatized ...
Thinking Like a Mountain
April 06, 2023
On Tom Comitta’s ecological fiction.
The Amazon Has Lost All Subjectivity
The Amazon is full of poets with a bird’s-eye sense of reality.
The Wonderful Death of a State
April 04, 2023
Crack-up was the flywheel of human progress.
Fresh Hell
March 31, 2023
Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy
In a week that saw the historic indictment of a former president, the Senate overturning the Covid-19 emergency order, and a federal judge block coverage for preventative care and cancer screenings, the people can be forgiven for longing to ...
The Department of Songbird Investigations
"I’m a journalist first, but I got a lot of certifications."
Split City
March 30, 2023
In the race to replace Chicago's mayor Lori Lightfoot, is a consensus candidate even possible?
Last Resorts
March 29, 2023
In Canada, assisted dying has been offered to disabled people in lieu of adequate care.
Positively BEGGING You
March 28, 2023
Bad Democrats are ignoring this email!
Fresh Hell
March 24, 2023
First, Do No Arm
Take a walk, legs! See you later, head! Sayonara, belly button! After millennia in obscurity, arms are finally getting their due as the unsung body part: the torso’s twin protuberances are now the subject of an ode in Vogue by Ada Calhoun. Calhoun reports ...