Politics

Columns

Get Out of the Van

Michael Friedrich

September 10, 2019

Some people choose the #vanlife. For others, it’s a last resort.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

September 06, 2019

I Hope They Serve Beer at Amazon

Divining Comedy

Wen Stephenson

September 05, 2019

Set amid climate disaster, there's something strangely comedic about Amitav Ghosh's new novel.

Uber Undone

Noah Kulwin

September 04, 2019

Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped definitively punctures the Uber mirage

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

August 30, 2019

Diversity Never Tasted So Sweet 

The Antifascist Question

Brendan O’Connor

August 29, 2019

As far-right violence continues, Republicans invoke the specter of antifa to crack down on the left

Ghost Towns of Instagram

Angella d’Avignon

August 28, 2019

Inside a new California Gold Rush

Presidential Pretenders

Juliano Fiori

August 27, 2019

There are many lessons in the collapse of Venezuela.

Happy as Cory

Jacob Silverman

August 22, 2019

An evening with the candidate of peace, love, and very little policy.

Whither the Newsman?

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

August 22, 2019

A new documentary about 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace obscures more than it reveals.

Pinkwashing Liberation

Rami Yasir

August 16, 2019

Co-opting the language of resistance to erase gay Palestinians

We Can’t Go on like This

Ross Barkan

August 15, 2019

The Mike Gravel presidential campaign, which shut down last week, will probably be remembered as a curiosity singular to the late 2010s, when American politics spun out of orbit for good, and the solemn, useless rules of the spectacle were discarded. The campaign, often and ...