This isn’t an article so much as a note from hell. After a brief introduction, Chivers lets the text do the talking and you plunge headfirst in to the diary [...]
Where Gopnick (above) gives a survey of what prison reform advocates have been up to recently, Glazek appears to be one himself, and over the course of ten or so [...]
A great summary of just how far behind the bleeding edge of modern industrial production America has fallen. Could you wake up 8,000 American workers in the middle of the [...]
Taibbi doing what he does best. Actually, it makes sense. If we don’t cut health care and retirement benefits for old people, how can we pay for the carried-interest tax [...]
In June of last year, Stephen Colbert start his own Super PAC equipped with a 501 (c)(4) (which lets him gather as much money as people are willing to give) [...]
This one might make you a little sick to your stomach. In just a few brief paragraphs, Marcia Angell distills the message of three recent books that take on America’s [...]
A brief list; a peek in to just how tight government control over the internet is about to become. Read it while you can.
Another glorious profile by Hessler – this time on the life of an old friend who has realized a fictional version of himself by moving to Japan. The wimpy kid [...]
Goodbye Hitch. This is an old favorite that I thought I might drag out for the occasion. Though it is certainly due in part to the fact that Parker was [...]
Selected as part of David Brook’s 2011 Syndey awards, Paper Tigers gives voice to the many frustrations of being a first generation Asian-American these days and, for those of us who [...]
In sixteen rather succinct pages, Naomi Klein manages to explain just how correct extreme environmental arguments on both sides of the aisle are, and in so doing creates a sort of outline for what [...]