What percentage of voters know that Trump can cancel prosecutions of himself if he wins back the White House? | Continue reading
Former MSNBC journalist Mehdi Hasan is launching a new digital media company that he hopes will counter the mainstream media’s many failings throughout the Trump era. | Continue reading
There are many ways the press could have played the Hur report in its news analyses. The path it chose suggests we’re stuck in 2016 again. | Continue reading
Melissa Gira Grant on how extremist influencers invented an anti-LGBTQ moral panic turned terror campaign # | Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine journalists referring to liberal hostage-taking as merely “the ordinary stuff of politics.” | Continue reading
The “budget” passed by House Republicans is terrible for the party politically. | Continue reading
On the sordid, life-affirming business of being a member of r/WallStreetBets | Continue reading
Imagine if three-quarters of U.S. states were flooded. | Continue reading
Like his pals Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sacks is using his wealth and online clout to unite conservatives and former leftists in a reactionary movement against liberalism. | Continue reading
The site’s “brevity” is dumb and ugly, and, ironically, it slows me down. | Continue reading
Is the field of dentistry rife with overtreatment? | Continue reading
"This abandonment by lawmakers is why so many of the most effective solutions we have right now are being developed far outside the realm of electoral politics." # | Continue reading
How movies about the political system fell in love with cynicism and messaging | Continue reading
More art is being produced and sold than ever before, at ever higher prices. | Continue reading
How Maxar Technologies, an American satellite company and key contractor for the Defense Department, became the media’s favorite photographer of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine | Continue reading
A new book explains why Americans know so little about other countries. | Continue reading
Such firms control a huge portion of the world’s wealth. Instead of using that power to solve climate change, they’re blocking progress and profiting off inequality. | Continue reading
I have been reading David Leonhardt's New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candide-the relentless crackpot optimist or the disappointed student who finally throws up … | Continue reading
Since 2007, Romania has lost between half and two-thirds of its virgin forest. The environmentalists and activists trying to protect it keep getting killed. | Continue reading
John Mearsheimer and other foreign policy figures are treating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like a game of Risk. | Continue reading
The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it. | Continue reading
Absence of thought is the chief enemy to freedom of mind. | Continue reading
The high court struck down OSHA’s testing mandate but left a vaccine requirement for health care workers in place. | Continue reading
New research has undermined many of the narratives in Alina Chan and Matt Ridley’s book, “Viral.” But there’s always an idea around the corner. | Continue reading
The nitwit founder of Facebook has created the worst, most damaging website in the world. And we’re just supposed to accept it. | Continue reading
Edith Schloss’s memoir recalls a world of spacious, postindustrial studios filled with even bigger ideas about how to reform modern art. | Continue reading
Yes, the tech monopolies still have enormous power. But encouraging change is afoot. We just need a lot more of it. | Continue reading
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has invested billions in Bitcoin. Can we trust him—or the cryptocurrency’s skyrocketing value? | Continue reading
It undermines equality and the common good. | Continue reading
Dennis Muilenburg escaped punishment for the 737 Max disasters. Now he’s using finance’s hottest investment vehicle to engineer a lucrative comeback. | Continue reading
Mark McGurl’s new book defines a frightening new era of literature, honed to Jeff Bezos’s algorithm. | Continue reading
The purveyors of “grass-fed” beef want you to believe that it solves meat’s environmental problem. But this is merely a branding exercise, not a climate solution. | Continue reading
For decades, Forster could not publish his novel of gay love, “Maurice.” Its importance in his work and to the writers he nurtured is only just becoming clear. | Continue reading
A dubiously sourced account that confirmed many liberals’ assumptions about rural Americans taking horse medicine was too good to check. | Continue reading
DespairBy Vladimir Nabokov(Putnam, $5) Nabokov, describing the work of "V. Sirin" (his pseudonym as a Russian emigre novelist) in Conclusive Evidence, says, "the real life of his books flowed in his figures of speech," and "his best works are those in which he condemns his people … | Continue reading
Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, represents the new, even more right-wing alternative to Silicon Valley. | Continue reading
How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed Julian Assange | Continue reading
How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed Julian Assange | Continue reading
The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan is an extreme, though not entirely unique, test case for the power and the peril of these platforms. | Continue reading
People couldn't believe a man like Einstein would put stock in such things. | Continue reading
Traffic, car sales, and car rentals are rising, crushing the pandemic-era hope that streets could be reclaimed for pedestrians and bikers. | Continue reading
Both coffee and opium come from plants. Why embrace one and not the other? | Continue reading
The Amazon founder revived the theory of surplus value. | Continue reading
On Einstein's birthday, a special look at his role as an involuntary scientific role model. | Continue reading
The creator of James Bond had an unremarkable career in intelligence and considered his own books “piffle.” | Continue reading
Deafness has become a hot subject in moviemaking, but one with a tense relationship to the world deaf people actually live in. | Continue reading