The Trans Cult Who Believes AI Will Either Save Us—or Kill Us All The Trans Cult Who Believes AI Will Either Save Us—or Kill Us All
What the Zizians, a trans vegan cult allegedly behind multiple murders, can teach us about radicalization and our tech-addled politics.
Mar 13, 2025 / Grace Byron
Why “The Living Mountain” Endures Why “The Living Mountain” Endures
Nan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman.
Mar 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Odell
This Democrat Is Giving a Master Class in How to Shame the GOP This Democrat Is Giving a Master Class in How to Shame the GOP
A Republican congressman was avoiding his constituents. So Democrat Mark Pocan gave them a chance to speak their mind.
Mar 13, 2025 / John Nichols
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detainment Won’t Stop the Pro-Palestine Student Movement Mahmoud Khalil’s Detainment Won’t Stop the Pro-Palestine Student Movement
The reverberations of Khalil’s arrest are being felt beyond Columbia University’s campus.
Mar 12, 2025 / StudentNation / Lara-Nour Walton
We Are Asking the Wrong Questions About Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest We Are Asking the Wrong Questions About Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest
The only relevant question is not “How can the government do this?” It is “How can we who oppose this fascist regime stop it?”
Mar 12, 2025 / Elie Mystal
Making Enemies With the World Making Enemies With the World
Trump’s anti-immigrant position is devastating lives.
Mar 12, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
DOGE’s Private-Equity Playbook DOGE’s Private-Equity Playbook
Elon Musk's rampage through the government is a classic PE takeover, replete with bogus numbers and sociopathic executives.
Mar 12, 2025 / Maureen Tkacik
How Covid Sickened the National Psyche How Covid Sickened the National Psyche
While the US was a troubled nation long before the coronavirus, our failure to treat the pandemic as an enduring emergency helped birth this nasty moment.
Mar 12, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Parts of LA Are Not Going to Be Habitable Parts of LA Are Not Going to Be Habitable
Insurers have figured out that risk is too high in parts of California. We need to re-conceive how people are housed, and fast.
Mar 12, 2025 / Column / Kate Wagner
White Flops Rejoice! White Flops Rejoice!
DEI is being snuffed out in DC. Mediocre whiteness reigns. And we’re all going to suffer for it.
Mar 12, 2025 / Column / Kali Holloway