No Country for Old Women
December 03, 2021
The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor was a master of awkward and complicated feelings.
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The Tyranny of the Task
November 29, 2021
With “microwork,” good old-fashioned piecework gets a digital makeover.
Fun, Games, and Extractivism
November 24, 2021
Fossil fuels have a new recruitment strategy: Minecraft
Macho Macho Men
November 23, 2021
The queer history of pumping iron.
Fresh Hell
November 19, 2021
Build Back Better*
(*Terms, Conditions, and Exclusions May Apply)
Once upon a time, in the distant reaches of summer, Democrats unveiled a $3.5 trillion spending package that would, as we’ve long-since tired of rehashing, over the ensuing months be gradually shorn of its ...
Biden’s Kamala Problem
Vice President Harris is a stranger in a strange land.
Great Power Competitions
November 18, 2021
When ping-pong redirected diplomacy between the U.S. and China
Lord of the Flies
November 17, 2021
Science fiction and settler colonialism collide in Rafael Bernal's Mexico.
Bear Witness
November 16, 2021
Can an act of interspecies violence bridge the human/animal divide?
Keeping up with the Buttigiegs
November 15, 2021
On the campaign trail with Mayor Pete.
Fresh Hell
November 12, 2021
My Big Fat Getty Wedding
As nominally the most powerful woman in the nation that is singularly responsible for cumulatively pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than any other, Nancy Pelosi recognizes the moral responsibility of the United States to, after decades of ...
Huma in Hillaryland
Clinton’s right-hand woman on the down side of power