2015

How the rich save billions by shaping tax policy in the U.S., using loopholes and sophisticated strategies unavailable to “normal wage-earners.”

Sarah Helm investigates the roots of ISIS in Gaza and how Hamas is responding.

Jia Tolentino looks back at the two novels she started but never finished, and what she learned about writing.

In the New York Times, Joe Nocera looks back at the battle between college basketball coaching great Jerry Tarkanian and former NCAA executive director Walter Byers, who both died in 2015.

On being in a terrible accident and trying to make sense of its narrative.

The following excerpt appears courtesy of Verso Books. The passage—the book’s opening chapter—details a single terrible crime, which Rodriguez Nieto uses as an inroad to discussing Juárez’s emergent culture of crime.

“I can’t think of an obligation that feminism ought to have lifted faster than the obligation that a woman construct her life around agreement—and yet, this year, it seems like this is exactly what many people understand feminism, within its own sphere, to be.”