‘They Were Growing Seedlings…Which Would Sprout To Become Supreme Court Justices’ By Hope Reese Feature 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.
When It Comes to the Climate Crisis, Don’t Forget the Power of the States By Livia Gershon Feature Even with the federal government in chaos, there’s still plenty of opportunity to solve a global problem.
A Single Sentence By Longreads Feature 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.
What Should Universal Basic Income Look Like? By Livia Gershon Feature Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.
Washington D.C.’s New Media Landscape Is Niche By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight 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.
An Ocean Away From the Sanctuary of Manhattan, Signs of Peaceful Coexistence By Longreads Feature 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.
Putin’s Rasputin By Longreads Feature Journalist Amos Barshad meets with “Putin whisperer” Aleksandr Dugin to try to understand how a shadowy advisor exerts influence.
House Un-American By Leslie Kendall Dye Feature On public lives, secret memoirs, and censoring the dead.
The Good Bad Wives of Ozark and House of Cards By Sara Fredman Feature What if a TV antihero and his wife were partners instead of rivals?
Maybe What We Need Is … More Politics? By Aaron Timms Feature 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?
Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time By Rebecca McCarthy Feature There’s no doubt that Atlantic City is going under. The only question left is: Can an entire city donate its body to science?
A Stimulus Plan for the Mutual Aid Economy By Livia Gershon Feature Policymakers’ neglect of caregiving harms a major force in American labor.
A Woman Becomes a Nightingale By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson reviews the ugly history of rape being weaponized — and politicized — as a means of silencing women.
Of Politics and Prose By Sari Botton Highlight Roxane Gay writes about the necessary and inevitable influence of politics on literature at this fraught time in history.
Women Are Really, Really Mad Right Now By Hope Reese Feature Rebecca Traister talks about the revolutionary power of women’s anger.
‘The Very Top Guy in the Stasi was Personally Involved in Figuring Out How to Destroy Punk.’ By Will Hermes Feature 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.’
An Immoderate Novel for an Immoderate Season: An Interview with Olivia Laing By Bridey Heing Feature 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.
Happy, Healthy Economy By Livia Gershon Feature Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.
The Palette is Political By Michelle Weber Highlight There is little in the world that is not in some way political, including YouTube makeup tutorials.
I Paid $710 to Sneak Into This Club By Michelle Weber Highlight We wear slogan tees to signal our politics and identify ourselves to like-minded thinkers — but maybe they mask more than they reveal.
An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reading List By Danielle Tcholakian Reading List The New York Times came under fire for asking, “Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?” A lot of outlets already knew.
If Tim Russert Could Interview Trump Today By Catherine Cusick Commentary On the tenth anniversary of Tim Russert’s death, one question rings out over the last decade in American politics: What Would Tim Ask?
Stacey Abrams’ Historic Win in Georgia: A Reading List By Danielle Jackson Reading List Stacey Abrams’ win in Georgia could put one of the U.S.’s most populous red states in play for progressives for the first time in decades.
Is New York the Most Corrupt State in the Nation? By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary A robust local media is important to rooting out corruption, but so is a well-informed electorate.
End the White House Correspondents’ Dinner By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary It’s an embarrassment to journalism.
