An Herbal Viagra Scam and the Hard Truth About the Dietary Supplement Industry
In the early 2000s, a man named Erb Avore started selling a male sexual enhancement supplement he called Stiff Nights. The pills were amazingly effective—but the list of ingredients failed to mention a...
View ArticleThe Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Is a Gift to Wall Street, at the Planet’s...
The financial crisis that began in 2008 wasn’t great for Wall Street titans: Regulators cracked down on them, protesters occupied them, and public opinion soured against them. They managed to make out...
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The Rise and Fall of an Herbal Viagra Scammer
If you are ever so lucky as to find yourself talking to Erb Avore, your first question would likely be whether that is, in fact, his real name. It is. Your second question could be—or should be—about...
View ArticleThe Real Story of the Bipartisan Anti–Sex Trafficking Bill That Failed...
“In case after case, we successfully prosecute traffickers, but we cannot pursue the websites that profited from the ads placed by these vile operations,” Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance told...
View ArticleDismantle the NCAA
This week, the Supreme Court struck a blow for the unpaid professional athletes who pretend to be amateurs so they can play on college teams. In NCAA v. Alston, the high court ruled unanimously that...
View ArticleCentrist Pundits’ Supposedly Savvy, Terribly Wrong Takes About the New York...
Savvy guys like Matt Yglesias, the newsletter writer and former Vox and Slate blogger, sometimes critique bad political punditry by pointing out that it often boils down to saying things like, If...
View ArticleCapital Defeats Labor at the Supreme Court, 6-3
When a group of California farm owners in the San Joaquin Valley sought to stop union organizers from speaking with workers on their farms in 1975, they authorized an armed right-wing militia called...
View ArticleWhy Are Democrats Acting Like the Sky Is Falling?
The last cut on Janis Joplin’s final album, Pearl, was the chillingly apt “Get It While You Can.” More than a half-century after the death of one of the most haunting blues singers of the 1960s, that...
View ArticleMainstream Reporters Are Parroting the Republicans’ Idiotic Talking Points...
Eric Adams is not yet—at least officially—the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York, but the takeaway from his strong showing in the city’s primary has led pundit after pundit to reach the same...
View ArticleAn Origin Story for the Netanyahus
Melekh Bibi—King Bibi—has been dethroned. Usurped by his former deputy, Naftali Bennett, in early June, Netanyahu was finally dealt an election result with which he could not form a majority...
View ArticleIs America Ready to Face the Truth About the Atrocities Against Indigenous...
On Tuesday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland revealed at the National Congress of American Indians’ annual midyear conference that the federal government, led by her department, will “undertake an...
View ArticleBeing Vaccinated Isn’t a Private Matter. It’s Everyone’s Business.
Asked whether he’d gotten a Covid-19 vaccine, Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently dodged with a saucy nonanswer. “When was the last time you had sex with your wife and in what position?” he replied...
View ArticleThe Obscure Law That Enabled Trump’s Subversion of the Electoral College
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about voting rights with two Democratic members of Congress, during which time I took the opportunity to draw their...
View ArticleWe All Tried to Control Britney
It was all Britney’s idea. The 16-year-old singer had just recorded her first album and was about to shoot her first music video with Nigel Dick, then best known for directing videos for Oasis and Guns...
View ArticleVideo Games Are a Labor Disaster
In 2006, a professional baseball player named Curt Schilling started a video game company. Schilling was probably most famous for a heroic pitching performance on an injured ankle in a 2004 playoff...
View ArticleHow Tax Breaks for Fossil Fuel Companies Inflated Profits for Oil and Gas...
During infrastructure negotiations, Republicans have been eager to frame any and all green spending as a wasteful add-on that picks winners and stifles competition. But the United States already picks...
View ArticleThe Biden Administration Defends Yet Another Oil Pipeline
Barack Obama’s “all of the above” energy strategy is alive and well under his former vice president. In a legal brief on Wednesday, President Biden’s Justice Department defended a pipeline permit...
View ArticleBiden’s Justice Department Is Coming for You, Georgia Republicans
The Justice Department filed a major lawsuit to challenge Georgia’s controversial new voting law in federal court on Friday, alleging that state lawmakers passed it to hinder Black Georgians’ ability...
View ArticleFrom Stonewall to Today: How Activism Changed the World
My friend Dan Savage and I had a little exchange on Twitter the other day.Dan was commenting on yet another advance for the LGBT movement: We scored our first openly gay NFL player when Carl Nassib...
View ArticleHow to Spot a Cult
Among L. Ron Hubbard’s most pressing concerns was a singular problem: how to get his followers to turn their nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns. Like a Californian Hamlet, the founder of Scientology...
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