Dandelion
a patch of dandelions in their seedhead prime each calls out to be picked a puff of breath or two will launch their wish and oursbut the artist doesn’t obey instinctshe plucks a hopeful head and...
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The Kids Profiling Every Single Child Killed by Guns
When Madison Hahamy’s editor assigned her to write a profile of a 16-year-old shooting victim named David A. Thomas, she was stumped for almost a year. Her subject presented many obstacles to...
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The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.Appearing at a San Francisco comedy festival...
View ArticleThe Passion of Greta Thunberg
I didn’t feel good about asking Greta Thunberg for an interview. She’s a kid still; stardom rots the soul; and the spotlight is clearly torture to her—a torture she has chosen freely, but a torture all...
View ArticleWhen “Biology” Becomes a Cover for Anti-Trans Bigotry
Earlier this month, a British employment judge ruled that a researcher’s anti-trans views did not constitute what’s called a protected philosophical belief under the nation’s Equality Act, which meant...
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A Decade of Legal Warfare Has Warped America’s Future
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.It’s hard to keep track of all the lawsuits...
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My Own Private Decade From Hell
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.A decade ago, I was in hell; now I’m on my...
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The Death of the Good Internet Was an Inside Job
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.I remember the exact moment when the...
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The Rise of the Permanent Protest
Welcome to the Decade From Hell, our look back at an arbitrary 10-year period that began with a great outpouring of hope and ended in a cavalcade of despair.Almost immediately after one of the decade’s...
View ArticleThe Reinvention of Little Women
What a cynically crowd-pleasing move it could have been to refocus the arc of Little Women so that it became the story of Jo March, aspiring writer, and how utterly relieved I am to learn how well it...
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Naming the Threat
It’s not hard to completely miss something that exists in plain sight. To see is itself a process of precognition—matching up an anticipated picture of reality to what you observe in real time. If...
View ArticleMexico Deserves Better Than Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Another year, another stream of sensationalist headlines out of Mexico: drug violence, femicide, the ongoing migrant crisis, and an economy that continues to fall short of its potential. All these...
View ArticleThe Rise of a Hollow Political Catchphrase
Andy Beshear wasn’t meant to be the next governor of Kentucky. Shortly after he won the Democratic nomination in May, Matt Bevin, the Republican incumbent, was leading by a comfortable 6 points in the...
View ArticleHave Democrats Found Their ALEC?
Jay Livingstone knew something had to be done about Massachusetts’s abortion law. The state, despite its liberal leanings, still had a ban on its books that predated—although it was superseded by—Roe...
View ArticleThe Pinnacle of Trump’s Foreign Policy Stupidity
For the better part of a decade, America’s main base of operations for its military occupation of Iraq was a cluster of bases and old Saddam Hussein–era palaces surrounding Baghdad International...
View ArticleJohn Roberts: Bemused Spectator of American Democracy
Every December 31, Chief Justice John Roberts releases his annual year-end report on the federal courts. It’s a unique opportunity for him to speak not as a member of a nine-person court but as the de...
View ArticleAbortion Without Roe
Earlier this week, 207 members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade and take up the question of whether it “should be reconsidered and, if appropriate, overruled.” The amicus...
View ArticleThe Democrats’ Gutless Response to Trump’s Airstrike
One of the early signs that the United States had assassinated Iranian major general Qassim Suleimani on Thursday night came from President Trump’s Twitter account, which posted a low-resolution...
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Everyone Wants to Be a Bank
In 2011, when I lived in Milwaukee, the only job I held for more than a couple days was working the lunch rush at a gyro cart downtown. I was paid $60 a day plus tips, all in cash. One day, in an...
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A Man in Full
Joe Biden has been through impeachment before.Not the oversexed and overhyped Bill Clinton variety, but the real 1974 Richard Nixon smoking-gun version. And for Biden, these were moments that...
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