The Politics of Pointless Burqa Bans
When former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson spoke out against Denmark’s burqa ban earlier this month, he made it clear he still wasn’t a fan of the veils; the women who wear the “oppressive”...
View ArticleThe Bold Dreaminess of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
I started to notice the Peter Kavinsky tweets on Saturday morning, at first as a trickle, and then as a flood. This happens from time to time: The Internet collectively swoons over a fictional...
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Of an animal, especially a bird. A wandering specieswhom no seas nor places limit. A seed who survives despitethe depths of hard winter. The ripple of a herringsteering her band from seas of ice to...
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years ago, in an archive somewhere in a file folder, a ream of white fibre andblack ink stains my name, place of birth, country of origin none of them sound anywhere like herein a file...
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If you’re reading this in English,it already means we’re far awayfrom each other. Maybe we’re far away togetherbecause English is the only language I write in.But sometimes my thoughts pop out in...
View ArticleWould Trump’s Impeachment Crash the Stock Market?
Cornered criminals have been known to take hostages. In an interview that aired on Thursday morning on Fox & Friends, President Donald Trump appeared to take one worth more than $30 trillion. “If I...
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Why Brutalism and Instagram Don’t Mix
A big red kiosk greets you at the entrance of the new MoMA exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980. It’s a 1966 model of a modular design by Saša Janez Mächtig, made...
View ArticleFiddling With Travel Schedules Won’t Make North Korea Denuclearize
On Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced his trip next week to Pyongyang with former White House and congressional staffer Steve Biegun, the Trump administration’s new Special...
View ArticleHow John McCain’s Nationalist Vision Was Eclipsed by Trump’s
John McCain, who died Saturday at the age of 81, lived a long and eventful life, but the Arizona senator’s defining legacy may well be the feud he had in his last three years with Donald Trump. That...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren vs. the Roberts Court
Elizabeth Warren unveiled her package of anti-corruption reforms last week at an auspicious moment. On the day the Massachusetts senator released the 289-page bill, two former members of President...
View ArticleRed-State Voters Take Medicaid Expansion Into Their Own Hands
Nebraska may be one of the most conservative states in the country, but in November, the state’s voters could advance a liberal cause. On Friday, Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale confirmed that...
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A Pioneer of Paranoia
When Joan Didion came out to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 60s, she saw decline and decadence, a center no longer holding. In her essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” she chronicled the moral...
View ArticleSilicon Valley and the Quest for a Utopian Workplace
The summer of 2018 was a trying one for Google, Tesla, and other members of a celebrated Silicon Valley cohort that was supposed to have re-written all the rules. These companies continue to amaze with...
View ArticleThe Tesla Paradox
Elon Musk’s dream is dead. Less than three weeks after tweeting that he was taking Tesla private, and that he had secured funding to do so, Musk published a statement announcing that the electric car...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo’s Trumpian War on the NRA
The American Civil Liberties Union last week joined a closely watched court case, taking sides with a national advocacy organization against a powerful New Yorker who’s accused of enacting a...
View ArticleDoes Amazon Have More Power Than the Federal Reserve?
The Kansas City Federal Reserve, one of the dozen reserve banks in the U.S., gathered on Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to discuss a signature puzzle of our times: How can the economy hum along, with...
View ArticlePapal Wrongdoing, or Palace Intrigue?
Sexual abuse by Catholic priests and its cover up by bishops was always going to dominate this past weekend’s trip by Pope Francis to Ireland, but the explosive culmination of the trip with calls for...
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A Trans Memoir Explores Masculinity In Extremis
The beginning of Thomas Page McBee’s new memoir finds him locked in battle with another man. “I loved him even as I danced around him with my hands in the air,” he writes. Although this is the opening...
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Humans Have Created a New Natural Disaster
“Beach, eat, drink, dance, repeat.” These are Rihanna’s favorite things to do in Barbados. In a June 7 interview with Conde Nast Traveller, the pop star gushed over her home country, a small island...
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Money for Nothing
Some years ago, I had a colleague who would frequently complain that he didn’t have enough to do. He’d mention how much free time he had to our team, ask for more tasks from our boss, and bring it up...
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