If I Were to Rise Up All Colorless, If I Were to Rise Up All Colorless,
I could gather up old thoughts the way a mind distant in love brings about a gathering of stars. I don’t want people thinking I don’t care about the future. Plenty of people are wr…
Dec 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Laura Eve Engel
Staffing the Administration Staffing the Administration
Replacing someone forced to leave Could surely be no easier. Trump looks among the folks he knows, And picks someone who’s sleazier.
Dec 6, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Puzzle No. 3484 Puzzle No. 3484
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Wickedness in half-sleazy city (7) 5 Comedian Lee cut fool short (5-2) 9 Traveler to disfigure policeman near squ…
Dec 6, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
In America’s Panopticon In America’s Panopticon
Sarah Igo’s The Known Citizen examines the linked histories of privacy and surveillance in the United States.
Dec 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Katie Fitzpatrick
Theres an App for Everything! Theres an App for Everything!
All you need is a little time.
Dec 6, 2018 / OppArt / Hilary Allison
The Best Strategy for the House Dems? Fight for Major Reforms. The Best Strategy for the House Dems? Fight for Major Reforms.
Sure, the Senate will block them. But pushing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for All will energize grassroots activists and supercharge the coming presidential primary.
Dec 6, 2018 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
Keith Gessen’s Portrait of a Moscow Caught Between Two Worlds Keith Gessen’s Portrait of a Moscow Caught Between Two Worlds
His new novel, A Terrible Country, offers a heartbreakingly intimate glimpse into contemporary Russian life.
Dec 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Gregory Afinogenov
ICE Puts Immigrants Into a Cruel Catch-22 ICE Puts Immigrants Into a Cruel Catch-22
By complying with one government agency, Samuel Oliver-Bruno exposed himself to deportation by another.
Dec 6, 2018 / Barry Yeoman
Actual Journalism Is Under an Asymmetrical Attack Actual Journalism Is Under an Asymmetrical Attack
Far-right media isn’t playing by the same rules.
Dec 6, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman
George H.W. Bush Gave Us Today’s Republican Party George H.W. Bush Gave Us Today’s Republican Party
Harold Meyerson on Bush 41, Katha Pollitt on white women and Trump, and Eric Foner on Frederick Douglass.
Dec 6, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener