How Covid amnesia spread through the right and left
Four years into ‘two weeks to stop the spread,’ the main characters of the pandemic have taken to revisionism
Society
Thursday
My friends keep dumping me
It’s not a conscious or cruel dumping — it’s the dump of indifference
The digital habit
The vast majority of people neither living in what they call ‘real time’ nor experiencing life and the world itself at first hand
Tuesday
WATCH: Jon Stewart jabs at Biden and Trump’s age in Daily Show return
‘How do you go on TikTok and end up looking older?’
Friday
Vladimir Putin’s night at the Tucker Carlson circus
The full interview Carlson released on his website and on Elon Musk’s X was received primarily with a yawn
Thursday
The biggest overreactions to Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview that no one has seen yet
Neoliberals and neocons want him sanctioned or banned from the US
Tuesday
E. Jean Carroll’s victory lap
‘First thing Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping’
Tuesday
Is Courier Newsroom really fighting fake news?
Journalists who have worked at Tara McGowan’s news outlet say the ideals it publicly professes are a far cry from reality
The tech I’m looking forward to in 2024
Premium screens, standout laptops and AI will be huge this year
Why have parties suddenly gotten good?
Even an old grump like me has been having a good time
Friday
Axios bravely points out Covid hurt Trump’s economy
‘Trump’s economic record is only good if you leave off what happened from March 2020 to the end of his administration’
Wednesday
Is the New York Times’s Gaza mayor op-ed worth condemning?
‘Pro-free speech’ outlets on the right are making ‘platforming’ arguments
Wednesday
Bowling Alone reads like a nostalgic look at the good ol’ days
However bad Robert Putnam thought it was, it has become considerably worse
Why BDSM is innately conservative
S&M people might look like perverted children of the Sixties. But for all their weird ways this crowd is the natural ally of conservatives
A history of intellect
The Greeks had a concept of the ‘intellect’ that is the diametric opposite of our own
Monday
Being curious about race does not make you racist
The taboo around speaking about race has reached levels that are now nothing less than comical
Saturday
The Politico story covering for Susanna Gibson is more embarrassing than anything she ever did
And she peed for paying strangers on Chaturbate
Friday
On the ground at the Washington Post journo strike
Several Post employees shared the alleged unfair treatment they received at the hands of management
Saturday
Navigating the confusion within the Catholic Church
A Catholic author and former Trump speechwriter weighs in
Thursday
Mehdi Hasan gets demoted
The MSNBC host has lost his show
