Jeff Sharlet explores hate and Trumpism in America.
America
Sleeping with Amazon
Sometimes it’s not who you work with, but who you work for.
From Russia, With Malice
“But there is another reason for the government’s alarmingly inadequate response: a president who sees attempts to counter the Russia threat as a personal affront.”
The American Road Trip: Patriotism
From a naturalization ceremony to a Slipknot concert, Jacqui Shine travels the United States to understand what it means to be patriotic.
‘Something’s Got to Give’: Redux
“Get me out of here — I’m losing it!”
Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid for $195 a Packet? Oh Yeah!
“Kool-Ade” debuted in 1927 and has remained popular for over 90 years.
‘Imagine Us, Because We’re Here’: An Interview with Mira Jacob
Mira Jacob talks about why she wrote a graphic memoir, and why she is tired of performing her pain in order to help white people understand racism.
How To Hide An Empire
Daniel Immerwahr says studying the history of the Greater United States opens our eyes to how “racism has shaped the actual country itself. The legal borders of the country, but also the borders of the heart.”
When a Missing Nickel Makes All the Difference
“Yet money was a lie—pieces of paper and metal suggesting prices for goods, services, labor, and human beings themselves in a way that often had more to do with profit than with true value.”
