Planet Bloomberg
May 10, 2022
Examining the Bloomberg philanthropic machine.
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War by Another Name
May 09, 2022
Sanctions achieve little politically, while bringing great harm to civilians.
Fresh Hell
May 06, 2022
Back to the Future
On Monday evening, a draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade leaked to the press, leading perennially aggrieved conservatives to celebrate the imminent, altogether assured success of a decades-long campaign to strip women of ...
Rich Moms, Poor Moms
With Samantha’s power and Melinda’s money, poor women will be saved.
Working Landscapes
May 05, 2022
Barry Hines’s pastoral fiction offers an antidote to the British country house novel.
We Decide Our Own Fate
May 04, 2022
Two very different rallies for reproductive justice in New York.
Lost in the Supermarket
May 04, 2022
Browsing the literature of the grocery store
Nothin’ but the Rent
May 04, 2022
Has the dominance of rentier wealth led us into a new phase of capitalism?
Inhumanitarians
May 03, 2022
However lofty its claims, the UN is no arbiter of a moral world order.
Miłosz’s Magic Mountain
May 02, 2022
Czesław Miłosz expressed both pride and shame over his inability to commit.
Fresh Hell
April 29, 2022
The Sum of All Fears
Brain-addled swimmers of the content stream have no doubt heard by now that Apartheid Clyde née Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, has struck a deal to acquire Twitter for roughly $44 billion. Assuming that this is not an elaborate prank designed ...
The Fifth Shot
For people with compromised immune systems, the pandemic is not over.