“Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas.”
politics
Posted inEditor's Pick
Orange Era
“First it was a fire, then it was a color, and before too long it became a regime unto itself.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Shetland’s Most Wanted
“A series of encounters with an unlikely band of separatists.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Ballroom Blitz
“Trump’s obsessive bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa
“‘We are not terrorists.'”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Hydration-Break World Cup
“How much can fans conveniently forget in order to enjoy the games? The answer, evidently, is a lot.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
“Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Politics After Literacy
“Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.”