Trump Finds His Own Dumb Endless War
Experts differ on the appropriate way to acknowledge an Air Force fighter jet flyover. Saying “thank you,” however loudly, doesn’t seem sufficient; the planes are very far away and moving very quickly,...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Terrible Health Care Solution for the Newly Unemployed
Earlier this week, I received a letter whose return address immediately alarmed me. It was from COBRA, the simultaneously awkwardly and aptly named institution through which I currently get my health...
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Samantha Irby Is All Grown Up
A man once complimented Samantha Irby’s back during sex. Flattered, she gave it an exfoliating treatment, which unfortunately scraped the skin raw. The next time Irby’s suitor knocked on her door,...
View ArticleThe Hard Truth About Antibody Tests
As President Trump made moves this week to open the economy back up, public health officials warned that there are still not enough coronavirus tests available to make that possible. They cautioned...
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How Drugs Made American Warfare
In 1971, the year President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs, “wherever they are in the world,” the House Select Committee on Crime found that, between 1966 and 1969, the Pentagon had distributed...
View ArticleA New Home in a Country Shuttered by a Pandemic
As Charles and his family left a Tanzanian refugee camp in late January, bound for a new life in Pittsburgh, he allowed himself to feel hopeful. “When I arrived at the airport, I felt that hardness...
View ArticleCould Hunter Biden Cost His Father the Election?
As soon as Joe Biden reclaimed his position as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, the right set its sights once more on his son Hunter. Two days after Biden’s South Carolina victory,...
View ArticleEssential Jobs, Disposable Workers
For many conservatives, there’s something bordering on romantic about the current minimum wage. It’s not a lock into poverty, it’s a rite of passage. “You can’t just knock out the entry level of the...
View ArticleBlessed Are the Rich
If the scriptures punched into me anything, it’s that the future is a torso in a bag, hidden in prison before summoned to be true. Space-sex, where has your winter gone? Today we lust after younger...
View ArticleThat Are
Then I became this stupid, trilling thing: what I desired was to become obscene. All the things I had loved up to thenfell away in the long struggle between winter and spring. And then there was my...
View ArticleTo Protect and Serve, or Pilfer and Steal?
Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stunning ruling: There is no “clearly established law” holding that police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they steal property that...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Is Christmas for Anti-Labor Ghouls
Given the enormity of our current crisis, it can feel difficult to imagine what life will look like on the other side of the coronavirus. Calls to return to “normal” have rang out from every possible...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Coronavirus Death Cult Takes to the Streets
“LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!” These Friday tweets from President Donald Trump condemning coronavirus restrictions...
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American Foreign Policy Is Not Ready for Climate Change
Climate change will define the global political landscape of the twenty-first century. As Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, then the head of the U.S. Pacific Command, told journalists in 2013, political...
View ArticleMerritt Wever Is Too Good For Run
Run, a new HBO series masterminded by the director of Fleabag’s inaugural stage run, Vicky Jones, has an intriguing, sexy premise: Ruby Richardson, a housewife with two children, has maintained a...
View ArticleThe Problem With Heroizing Health Care Workers Like Me
One recent evening, I was in my apartment getting ready for my night shift in the Cardiac Care Unit at a major hospital in New York City. It was 7 p.m., two hours before my first shift, and I was...
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A Shot in Hell
I had been in Las Vegas for two days before I looked up the site of the deadliest mass shooting in American history and realized that it had occurred in the open lot across the boulevard from my hotel....
View ArticlePublic Health Depends on a Healthy Planet
The butterfly effect is a thought experiment about how a small change in a system—a butterfly flapping its wings—can ripple through complex, interconnected systems, eventually cascading into larger...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s War Over Jury Trials Could Change Everything
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Sixth Amendment requires juries to reach unanimous verdicts when they find defendants guilty of serious crimes. This may come as a surprise to many Americans,...
View ArticleWhy the U.S. Buys Too Many Missiles and Not Enough Masks
Earlier this month, the Pentagon inked a contract to pay $818 million to Lockheed for hundreds of new extended-range, air-launched cruise missiles with thousand-pound explosive warheads. By then,...
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