Tag: politics

At BuzzFeed News, Albert Samaha describes his effort to save his mom from QAnon.

Children Of QAnon believers are desperately trying to deradicalize their parents.

In a progressive New Jersey community, racial solidarity is complicated.

Has the U.S. government already betrayed the activists seeking regime change in North Korea?

A reading list on travel influencers and the implications of Instagram on tourism and politics.

“You may start off with Professor X but Magneto got a fucking point.”

“And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”

“But writing itself, living a life defined by work and intellect rather than love or marriage, became her primary feminist commitment.”

Ruth Marcus discusses the Federalist Society’s 30-year Justice-grooming project, the botched investigations, and everything else that brought us “too big to fail” Brett Kavanaugh.

Even with the federal government in chaos, there’s still plenty of opportunity to solve a global problem.

In an clandestinely written memoir, a jailed Turkish novelist and political dissident remembers the single sentence that changed everything at the moment of his arrest.

Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.

General readers won’t have heard of their publications, but Washington D.C.’s trade press cater to specialist readers who pay top dollar for the beats they cover.

Searching for justice in the newly legal weed economy

As a Jewish New Yorker, Candy Schulman is surprised to find a small town in Andalusia celebrating the coexistence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures, despite the area’s dark racist history.

Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.

Recovering addicts are fighting the opioid epidemic.

On public lives, secret memoirs, and censoring the dead.

What if a TV antihero and his wife were partners instead of rivals?

Recent books by economists who hope to “save capitalism” dismiss popular ideas as “just politics.” But why assume the popular is the enemy of the good?

There’s no doubt that Atlantic City is going under. The only question left is: Can an entire city donate its body to science?

The world-changing potential of a Green New Deal

Policymakers’ neglect of caregiving harms a major force in American labor.

In this economy, what’s a fair share?

Carolita Johnson reviews the ugly history of rape being weaponized — and politicized — as a means of silencing women.

Roxane Gay writes about the necessary and inevitable influence of politics on literature at this fraught time in history.

Rebecca Traister talks about the revolutionary power of women’s anger.

Author Tim Mohr talks about East Germany’s dissident punk rock scene, and its role in bringing down the Berlin Wall in 1989 — the story behind his remarkable new book, ‘Burning Down The Haus.’

Olivia Laing’s new novel, “Crudo,” is a fictionalized account of the summer of 2017, written in real time by Laing — from the perspective of Kathy Acker.

Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.