“Young Prince Hamlet is sound of mind and body! We would describe his case of melancholy as ‘very mild.’ Reports of him running around on the battl... | Continue reading
Though we’ve known for four years that the 2020 US election cycle would be even more fraught than the strange and painful fall of the 2016 election... | Continue reading
1. Google what a county election office is.2. Request a ballot from your county election office.3. Ask your mailman when he thinks the ballot wil... | Continue reading
Hello, Peter Ludlow here, coming to you from the Isla Nublar Medical Center here at Jurassic Park. As you might’ve heard, on Friday I was mauled by... | Continue reading
1. “The release of only sketchy information made it difficult for outside medical experts to assess [his] condition.”2. “While [his] death or inca... | Continue reading
Though we’ve known for four years that the 2020 US election cycle would be even more fraught than the strange and painful fall of the 2016 election... | Continue reading
As I’m sure you have seen by now, Emperor Palpatine has recently suffered horrific injuries after being thrown into the Death Star’s reactor, which... | Continue reading
Dear Federal Elections Commission:I’m writing you to excuse my patient, the Honorable Donald J. Trump, from this year’s election process as he has... | Continue reading
Dear me,If you think this year minus the coronavirus outbreak would somehow be all sunshine and rainbows, you’ve got another thing coming. Several... | Continue reading
Though we’ve known for four years that the 2020 US election cycle would be even more fraught than the strange and painful fall of the 2016 election... | Continue reading
In the criminal justice system, politically based offenses are regarded as especially heinous. In the Pacific Northwest, a group of decentralized m... | Continue reading
Though we’ve known for four years that the 2020 US election cycle would be even more fraught than the strange and painful fall of the 2016 election... | Continue reading
The People: What is happening?The Answer: We’re having an election.P: A presidential election?A: A presidential election.P: Oh, good. When?A:... | Continue reading
Though we’ve known for four years that the 2020 US election cycle would be even more fraught than the strange and painful fall of the 2016 election... | Continue reading
Apple picking and hayrides are great, but the best part of autumn is cozying up inside. Plus, we’ll have to stay in once the election, pandemic, an... | Continue reading
Though we’ve known for four years that the 2020 US election cycle would be even more fraught than the strange and painful fall of the 2016 election... | Continue reading
I know some of you think I’m being dramatic, but after watching the debate, it’s clear that our democracy is facing a chilling scenario. I never th... | Continue reading
- - -This Friday, Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Vol. 2, goes live on Bandcamp. It’s available for only 24 hours. Buy the... | Continue reading
“Donald Trump ruined the biggest layup in the history of debates by saying — not condemning white supremacists. I don’t know if he didn’t hear it,... | Continue reading
9:03 PM: Moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace opens the debate by welcoming the at-home audience in a calm cadence, blissfully and perhaps r... | Continue reading
Hey Friend!How was your summer? Ours was rough. We got some scary news this spring, and I haven’t known how to tell you, since you’ve been having ... | Continue reading
Hey guys, I’m stuck fighting Trump, and I can’t figure out how to make Biden perform a fatality. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I’ve tried ever... | Continue reading
“I have many progressive friends who, already anxious about our country, are finding the possibility that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might be repl... | Continue reading
Our good friend, poet Ilya Kaminsky, knows contemporary poetry like no one else. We’re proud to be publishing his mini-reviews and one-question int... | Continue reading
In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth in just six days, the seventh day dawned unscheduled. And God blessed the seventh day ... | Continue reading
Welcome.Where am I?This is the afterlife. You fell asleep at the wheel listening to Atlas Shrugged on Audible.Oh, right. I guess that makes you ... | Continue reading
1. Removed Confederate statues are being melted down and repurposed into cyborg Black Lives Matter protesters.Reviewer’s Feedback: “This one came ... | Continue reading
Our good friend, poet Ilya Kaminsky, knows contemporary poetry like no one else. We’re proud to be publishing his mini-reviews and one-question int... | Continue reading
Who is Amy Coney Barrett and what is her connection to the People of Praise Movement?Amy Coney Barrett is Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Justice nom... | Continue reading
Dear Mortals,We know the emergence of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the impending Rapture has brought a lot of added stress and uncertai... | Continue reading
We get it. You panicked. You thought: “This virus is coming for my family and me. What do I have to defend us? Soap? Fucking Irish Spring? I don’t ... | Continue reading
When the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “Art is a mediator of the unspeakable,” he was almost certainly talking about Bill & Te... | Continue reading
“A grand jury weighing evidence in one of the country’s most contentious police shootings indicted a former Louisville police detective on charges ... | Continue reading
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- - -In The Lights & Types of Ships at Night (McSweeney’s, Nov. 2020), a narrator takes young readers on a tour of a glistening waterfront at ... | Continue reading
MICHAEL: Are you writing more postcards to voters?ALEXANDRA: No, I’m matching our budget to our bank accounts to see if I can find money to spare ... | Continue reading
With apologies to Shel Silverstein.- - -A (SOCIALLY-DISTANCED) INVITATIONIf you are a doctor, come inIf you are a teacher, a furloughed worker, ... | Continue reading
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“Chief of Staff Mark Meadows argued that ‘nobody outside of the Beltway really cares’ about ethics violations.” — Politico- - -Find a quiet place... | Continue reading
Q: You were a contact tracer this past summer. Tell me about it.A: Well, at the end of May I started at the county health department as an environ... | Continue reading
I see you in the comments of the grimmest NPR article to date, which raises my balding hackles as I never invited that drivel into my feed, I swear... | Continue reading
Traditional Literary CriticismD. H. Lawrence: “Criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the pum... | Continue reading
What is the name of your least favorite child?In what year did you abandon your dreams?What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress?At what... | Continue reading
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trailblazing pioneer. Tireless fighter for women’s rights. Feminist icon.As Republicans, we can think of no better way to pay... | Continue reading
1. You take Mary out for a nice drive. Disaster ensues.2. Bit by bit, this town is killing you.3. Two remorseless killers careen acro... | Continue reading
- - -Our executive director Amanda Uhle recently interviewed artist Lisa Brown about her new collection of remote-learning-themed drawings.- - -A... | Continue reading
Gosh, it’s been such a long year — and it’s only September. I can’t wait until 2020 is over.- - -Wow, 2021 is a real dumpster fire. It’s somehow e... | Continue reading
Dear Ms. Lily,That was your name. A flower. Delicate and sweet. I have so much to thank you for. You taught me the ways of the world, and for that... | Continue reading