The Ebola Quarantine Isn’t Just Stupid—It’s Deadly The Ebola Quarantine Isn’t Just Stupid—It’s Deadly
Of all the panicked and irrational reactions to Ebola, the outrageous treatment of volunteers like Kaci Hickox and Ryan Boyko is the most dangerous.
Nov 5, 2014 / Column / Richard Kim
By the Way By the Way
Obamacare Loses Power as a Campaign Issue
—Headline, The New York Times
Nov 5, 2014 / Column / Calvin Trillin
A Minor Complaint A Minor Complaint
Akhil Sharma’s Family Life is not a model minority story.
Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Toral Gajarawala
Apostles of Growth Apostles of Growth
Capitalism’s newest critics offer a groundbreaking account of slavery, but does their economic history add up?
Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk
California’s Clear Message to Republicans: ‘Not Interested’ California’s Clear Message to Republicans: ‘Not Interested’
California’s voters defied national trends.
Nov 5, 2014 / Jon Wiener
Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot
So regret her divined blemishes, smoking, drinking, having dated the wrong men, the wrong sex: Sugar’s top-lit in the spotlight (breasts, breasts) and what could be more innocent than someone begging to be loved?
Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Trudgeon
Puerto Rico: Land of the Noble/Valiant Lord! Puerto Rico: Land of the Noble/Valiant Lord!
We’re a fleshy circle of beached bachelorettes, tramp-stamps fading, bent over mini Boursins and Bordeaux brought down from the room on top of a resort on top of a reef: the garlic-breathed fruit of four thousand years of human habitation, from the good old Aceramics, the Taíno, fluorescing, and tireless reincarnations of colonizers to the new ground-sloths, the new giant island shrew: you, sunburnt, evolved, sipping rum and corn syrup from a purple plastic penis straw— barbasco to sacred vomit sticksv to Tylenol factories to this sludge-filled veiny verisimilitude— wondering how you landed yourself here: bridesmaid, la isla, Borinquen, a fortified interrobang trimmed in a Whore-Glo faux-feather boa as Russian businessmen offer you their warm Coronas, when all your life you’ve just been trying to make some progress.
Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Trudgeon
Haterz Gonna Hate? Haterz Gonna Hate?
There are limits to what the law can do to police cyberabuse.
Nov 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum
To Win White Swing Voters, Democrats Should Stop Trying to Appeal to White Swing Voters To Win White Swing Voters, Democrats Should Stop Trying to Appeal to White Swing Voters
Black voters who consistently turnout for Democrats are trying to show the party the way forward, if only it would pay attention.
Nov 5, 2014 / Dani McClain
‘Toward a New Beginning’: Lessons and Parallels From the GOP Rout of 1946 ‘Toward a New Beginning’: Lessons and Parallels From the GOP Rout of 1946
“Let us not fool ourselves in this hour of appraisal…”
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