Thing Untweetable
April 23, 2019
Jenny Holzer in the social media age
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Between a Strike and a Hard Place
April 23, 2019
Facing the prospect of a state takeover, Sacramento teachers have been forced to make a series of difficult compromises.
True Crimes
April 22, 2019
It appears that I owe Nathaniel Rich an apology. No, really, I mean this (brace yourselves) sincerely. I’ve never met or exchanged so much as a word with the novelist and New York Times contributor, author of the slim yet important new volume Losing Earth: A Recent History, ...
Fresh Hell
April 19, 2019
2019: A Space Billboard Odyssey
The Spectacular Desert
April 18, 2019
How the Coachella Valley became a backdrop for the multimillion-dollar experience economy
By the Book
April 17, 2019
How the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines have contributed to an exploding federal prison population
The Abominations of Congress
More than twenty years ago Charles Lewis noted in The Buying of the Congress that for most Americans the national legislature is “a distant abomination.” You can put the emphasis on “distant”—fewer than half the citizenry can name their representative and even fewer ...
The Great Untaxed
April 12, 2019
The Republican tax bill is now kicking in—and the rich are making off like bandits
The Moral Order of Panera
April 12, 2019
As the failure of Panera Cares demonstrates—not for the first time—entrepreneurs aren‘t going to solve hunger.
Britain’s New Battles
Among outlanders and outliers in Scotland, a view of Great Britain's distress
Home/work
April 11, 2019
One of industrial capitalism’s gravest sins is the separation of work from home. Factories cleaved in two what was once a unified sphere, a place that you both created and inhabited, living relatively un-alienated amongst the fruits of your labor. Not that it was an equal ...
Psychic Healing at the End of History
April 10, 2019
On conspiracy and crisis, from the fall of the Soviet Union to today.