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“We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart,” says Hamilton Nolan. “How...

Amid shortages of air traffic controllers & fatal aircraft events, the Trump...

Elon Musk’s attack on key US government systems and agencies continues with...

From Heather Cox Richardson, an overview of what the Trump administration is...

The Evolution of Electronic Music (1929-2019). Interesting that it took so long...

Cool thing that I did not notice about The Wild Robot: at...

New Evidence Suggests Humans Developed Written Language To Avoid Breaking Up In...

My Recent Media Diet, the Endless January Edition

How Trying Became Cool Again

Ken Burns’ Criterion Closet Picks include Seven Samurai, a Fellini box set,...

Thought-provoking musings on AI from Robin Sloan. “The language model reads Everything,...

The Crazy Thing About Babies

Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million...

I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a...

Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen,...

Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama...

Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips

Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All...

From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK....

Jerry Lawson was one of Silicon Valley’s first Black engineers and is...

An Update

How to stop Trump’s power grab. “Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan...

The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions

Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World...

“Fuck the Middle Ground”

House GOP has reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require voters to...

Elie Mystal on Elon Musk’s vision of neo-apartheid. “First and most important,...

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is...

Is This the End of the American Constitution?

On a scale of +10 (full democracy) to -10 (full autocracy), the...

RFK Jr. confirmed as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department....

Heather Cox Richardson on the history of the liberal consensus, from Lincoln...

The trailer for season six of The Handmaid’s Tale. Oh, no reason....

What can I do to fight this coup? “We will succeed because...

Do Not Obey In Advance

You’re Allowed to Feel like Garbage. “If you are a remotely informed...

Trump’s Obsession With Immigration Is Really an Obsession With Segregation. His policies...

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by...

“We Are Hurtling Towards Having a Russian-Type Regime”

Jamelle Bouie: Trump’s War on DEI Is Really a War on Civil...

Tressie McMillan Cottom’s latest is not easily summarized, but is well-worth a...

The Trump administration barred an AP reporter from an event because the...

Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government...

Josh Marshall: “This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as...

Law professors are a staid bunch. But: “We are in the midst...

Pitching a Big Tent in an Emergency

A federal judge has ordered the HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore...

The Trump administration is defying federal court orders and maintaining the funding...

I loved Russell Shorto’s The Island at the Center of the World...

Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies. “Washington created the modern civil service...