Articles in Culture & Politics (28)

News Briefing: April 11, 2025

A judge rules against Mahmoud Khalil, Javier Milei needs a bailout, a win for trans rights in Colorado, Keir Starmer breaks a strike, and are dire wolves back? (No, not really.)



Lucy Letby Should Be Released Immediately

The nurse branded Britain’s most notorious serial killer is clearly not “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” And it looks like she may even have taken the blame for neoliberalism’s gutting of the public health system.

The Grind Old Party

Hating work and wanting to do less of it is one of the few things that unites nearly everybody across demographics. But right-wing labor policy is threatening to grind us all into dust.

News Briefing: April 4, 2025

Trump’s tariff chaos, British police raid a Quaker meeting house, Pam Bondi wants to execute Luigi, Cory Booker talks for a very long time, AND MUCH MORE...


The White Male Writer is Fine, I Promise

In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature today.