Ten Scary Things This Halloween
A spoiler alert: none of these things have anything to do with inflatable skeletons, horror movies, or my anxiety about end-of-semester grading.
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Politics
Lying To Congress Seems Like A Big Deal, Actually
Perhaps the singularity has nothing to do with the rate of technological production, or artificial intelligence. Perhaps, rather, it’s the
Read MoreThe Eleven Leading Horrors from the Past Week
It’s, well, not great.
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Buckle Up, Comrades. It’s About To Get Weird.
There has been no shortage of declarative thinkpieces about the event taking place today in Washington, DC. I won’t pretend
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Four Years After January 6th: Did We Learn A Damn Thing?
Last night, a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend kind of thing posted on Facebook about
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The Weird New Political Age
Donald Trump has not yet re-taken the office of the presidency, and there are already fractures between him and co-president Elon Musk.
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Predictions for Trump 2.0
Revanchism and violent revenge, both hallmarks of American conservatism in 2024. It’s a sort of appalling glimpse at what may be to come in a second Trump presidency.
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Antonio Brown’s Appearance At a Rally Is An Apt, If Not Depressing, Metaphor for the Trump Campaign.
Whether we’re talking about the moral bankruptcy behind the NFL’s complete refusal to deal with the epidemic of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or the former president’s display of cognitive decline, it’s just all kinds of unfortunate.
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The 2024 Election Has Two Choices. One Is Certainly Disastrous.
American democracy cannot afford another Trump presidency.
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Trump & Netanyahu: A Criminal Bromance for the Ages
Yesterday, a war criminal addressed the United States Congress, receiving repeated rounds of applause and a standing ovation from a
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