The famous athlete doubts the planet
The famous athlete doubts the planet is round and sweet. Its magnetic navel adrift escapes like leaves turned dryly underfoot. The moon, so immense you can smell its breath, demands its sugar like your...
View ArticleJanuary, Rescued by Rafa’s Thighs
Tomorrow he’ll be ordinary againbut today I watch his familiar charge,the ritual pulls and tugs. All montha kind of gloom—sea turtles strangledin fishing nets, their bodies like templesin the sand. I...
View ArticleClarence Thomas Has Gone Full Hack
Justice Clarence Thomas, the senior member of the ascendant wing of the Supreme Court, has some concerns. He is worried about the court’s perception among the American people as it turns further and...
View ArticleComma
To never be touched again. That line has a sound. Hear it? I don’t want to bring a story to it. Not even an image. It has a sound. Listen.To never be touched. Oh, a nurse, a doctor, but never to be...
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Senate Republicans Want Your Cleaning Lady to Pay Income Tax, But Not FedEx
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen travelled to Poland this week to urge support for a 15 percent global minimum tax on corporate income. These negotiations are slow going, but the Poles will be pushovers...
View ArticleMarijuana
When I was young and dreamy,I longed to be a poet,not one with his armswrapped around the universeor on his knees before a goddess,not waving from Mount Parnassusnor wearing a cape like Lord...
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Inside LA’s Homeless Industrial Complex
At 17, Gustavo Otzoy emigrated from Guatemala to Los Angeles, where he was held in immigrant detention for nearly three weeks. On his first day free, he explored Echo Park Lake—16 acres of grass,...
View ArticleThe Fed Is Neglecting Its Duty on Climate Change
In early May, the United States Federal Reserve ordered the largest interest rate hike in over 20 years. This week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell declared he “won’t hesitate” to go even further, calling...
View ArticleWhy Your Utility Company Sucks
The United States will be asking a lot of its electric grid over the coming decades. Everything from home heating to transportation will need to move to the grid, as a system built to distribute...
View ArticleThe Wild Bunch
The Western, until quite recently, was especially valuable as a mythic preserve: a form in which Good and Evil could be easily identified and in which Good could triumph. Lately it is becoming an arena...
View ArticleIn Search of the Common Good
In her 2011 article “THE EROSION OF THE PUBLIC GOOD: THE IMPLICATIONS OF NEO-LIBERALISM FOR EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY,” Catherine Broom, professor of education at the University of British Columbia,...
View ArticleWould These Undelivered Speeches Really Have Changed History?
One year after Joe Biden’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman recounted how she almost didn’t read her luminous poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at the ceremony that day, how she overcame fear—of failure, Covid,...
View ArticleMark Esper’s Fascinating Revelations Would Have Been Far More So in Real Time
In a recent interview, Mark Esper, who served as secretary of defense from July 23, 2019, to November 9, 2020, described Donald Trump as a “person driven by self-interest.” This is exactly the kind of...
View ArticleJan. 6 Recap: An Aggressive (!) Move by the Justice Department
Here’s What Happened This WeekA persistent question hanging over the entire January 6 Committee investigation relates to the Department of Justice: “What exactly is Attorney General Merrick Garland...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush Makes a Brutal Return to Our Psyche
This week, former President George W. Bush detonated a nostalgia bomb in my brain: In the midst of criticizing the Russian government in a speech in Dallas on Wednesday, Bush said the following: “The...
View ArticleMadison Cawthorn’s Defeat Isn’t Going to Change the GOP
Writing on Instagram shortly after his defeat in a Republican congressional primary in North Carolina, 26-year-old Representative Madison Cawthorn lashed out at the Republican establishment for turning...
View ArticleThere Are No Super PAC Cops
On Monday, the eve of Oregon’s Democratic primary, The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher reported on an odd, red-bordered box on an “obscure corner” of the campaign website of embattled 5th district...
View ArticleElon Musk Is the Newest Acolyte of the Right’s Critical Energy Theory Nonsense
Elon Musk threw a fit last week. The proximate cause, this time, was his company Tesla getting booted from the S&P’s “ESG index.” The ESG index features companies deemed to be performing well on...
View ArticleElif Batuman’s Experiment With Eventfulness
There is a certain type of reader who, working her way through Proust, can think only of her own most recent heartbreak. She might be shy and bookish; certainly she is young. This reader might of...
View ArticleAmerican Conservatism Just Threw a Party for Hungarian Fascism
If you type “CPAC Budapest” into your search bar, Google autofills it to “CPAC Budapest tickets,” which somehow seems grimly appropriate, given that the Trump-era American right is such a relentless...
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