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An Illogical Reason Not to Vote
The midterm elections next week could be the most consequential in modern U.S. history. But a staggering number of young people aren’t planning to vote in them. To figure out why, New York magazine...
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Trump’s Closing Argument to Voters: Fascism
It’s less than a week until Election Day, and Donald Trump is scared. Most polls indicate that Democrats are poised to retake the House of Representatives. From there, they’ll be able to unleash a wave...
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The GOP’s Sneakiest Voter Suppression Tactic
With Election Day approaching, an odd little story from Dodge City, Kansas, made headlines in The New York Times and The Washington Post last week. Local elections officials in the Wild West outpost of...
View ArticleThe Final Girl Is All Grown Up
Halloween is a porous time for the American household. Children you’ve never met come all the way up to your door and expect you to open it. You might go to a costume party yourself, slipping into...
View ArticleHow Netflix Made The Haunting of Hill House Less Scary
In an early scene of Shirley Jackson’s bone-chilling 1959 gothic novel, The Haunting of Hill House, a young woman named Eleanor Vance drives through tall trees. She is on her way to a menacing mansion,...
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Is Your Halloween Candy Destroying the Rainforest?
Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe trick-or-treaters who hit the streets on Wednesday night might spook a few people with their costumes. But the Rainforest Action Network is more freaked out by what’s...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s Immigration Policy Will Hurt All Americans
In a bid to whip up his base in the closing days before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship. The move shifts focus from the thousands of...
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How Did Life Emerge?
How did life begin? Two common answers come to mind. One is that, at some point, a deity decided to suspend the laws of physics and will a slew of slimy creatures into being. A second is that a...
View ArticleThe Extinction of Wilderness
In 2016, an international team of scientists set out to determine how much of the earth’s land is still wild. They were alarmed at what they found: Deserts, grasslands, tropical and boreal forests are...
View ArticleWhy Does China Have So Many School Stabbings?
Americans have gotten uncomfortably familiar with the periodic tragedy of the mass shooting; in China, it’s the stabbing spree.Last Friday, a 39-year-old knife-wielding woman burst into the playground...
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Florida’s Referendum on Trump-Era Racism
The battle in Florida between Ron DeSantis, a Trumpist Republican congressman, and Andrew Gillum, a black progressive mayor, is one of the tightest and most high-profile gubernatorial races of 2018....
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Paul Ryan Wrote His Own Obituary, and It’s Delusional
Ever since he announced his retirement in April, Speaker Paul Ryan has largely avoided the limelight, emerging now and then to repel another far-right rebellion in the House or gently criticize...
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Can Megachurches Save El Salvador?
At a small jail outside San Salvador, Brother David Borja lifted his sunglasses to talk a guard into letting us inside. The cell, originally intended for temporary holding, smelled of sweat and urine....
View ArticleClimate Change Is Aggravating the Suffering in Yemen
When I asked Moosa Elayah to describe where he was born—a province in Yemen called Ibb—the first thing he said was “green,” which makes sense. Ibb, in the southwestern corner of the country, is the...
View ArticleHow the Roberts Court Caused Georgia’s Election Mess
Chief Justice John Roberts made a bold declaration on the state of American race relations in 2013. “Our country has changed,” he concluded in his majority opinion in Shelby County v. Holder, “and...
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Is a Liberal Takeover Afoot in Colorado?
Colorado voters won’t just be choosing elected officials when they go to the polls on Tuesday. They’ll be deciding, via a controversial ballot initiative, the future of the oil and gas industry in the...
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A Hopeless Election
Stumping for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams last week, former President Barack Obama made the case that Tuesday’s midterms were an existential test for the country. The midterms “may be...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Successful Anti-Gentrification Protest
Just two weeks ago, banners and stickers all over the neighborhood read, “Fuck off, Google.” Now, many simply say “Tschüss” (“Bye”).In November 2016, the tech giant announced plans for a seventh Google...
View ArticleThe Kafkaesque Machinery of the Death Penalty in America
The Supreme Court, its conservative majority in place for years, no longer debates whether state-imposed death is morally right or constitutionally valid. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation last...
View ArticleIt Was a Big, Beautiful Blue Wave
Only two hours after election results started trickling in, CNN correspondent Jake Tapper brought the gavel down. “This is not a blue wave,” he declared. “This is not a wave knocking out all sorts of...
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