A Long-Overdue Blueprint for Regulating Big Tech
For all the talk of 2018 being the year of big tech’s reckoning, companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have gotten off easy. Yes, formerly sky-high public approval ratings are dipping, and...
View ArticleHow Will I Know?
It is 1990, and Whitney Houston is in a hotel room with her mother. She is in her twenties, a sprightly pop star with lungs of gold. She has already made hits of “The Greatest Love of All,” “How Will I...
View ArticleThe Case for Migrant Reparations
Last month, Los Angeles Times reporter Esmerelda Bermudez accompanied Hermelindo Che Coc, an asylum-seeker from Guatemala, as he was reunited with his six-year-old son. She recorded the exact moment...
View ArticleWho’s to Blame for Global Warming?
The New York Times Magazine has done something unprecedented. On Wednesday, it released an entire issue containing just one article on the subject of global warming. “Losing Earth,” by Nathaniel Rich,...
View ArticleIf You Weren’t Here Before 1971, You’re Not a Citizen
If “these people” don’t return home “like gentlemen,” a provincial legislator in India said Tuesday, “they should be shot.” T. Raj Singh, from India’s dominant and right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party,...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Danny O’Connor? (Trump Is.)
By most metrics, Danny O’Connor, the Democratic nominee to replace retired Congressman Pat Tiberi, is a long shot. His Republican opponent, Troy Balderson, enjoys the support of the state’s governor,...
View ArticleMoviePass Played by Silicon Valley’s Insane Rules
MoviePass, whose subscribers pay a monthly fee to see an unlimited number of movies in most theaters in America, appears to be circling the drain. On Friday, the service temporarily shut down after the...
View ArticleThe Gaping Divide Over Student Debt
“Students should not be asked to pay more on their loans than they can afford. And the debt should not be an albatross around their necks for the rest of their lives. It’s no good, it’s not fair.” One...
View ArticleTrump’s Plan to Scare Americans Into Supporting Car Pollution
Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in America, and the majority of it comes from cars and small trucks. That’s a major reason why President Barack Obama, in 2012,...
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Among the Extremists on Campus
Campus novels have always been about much more than university life. When in 1954 Kingsley Amis published Lucky Jim—perhaps the most widely read contribution to the genre—conventional wisdom held that...
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When Fascists Turn Violent
Yiannis Boutaris stared back at a sea of angry faces on May 20—a few muttered insults. Boos erupted from pockets of the crowd. “Leave,” they demanded. The 76-year-old winemaker-turned-mayor’s body...
View ArticleApple’s Stock Market Scam
Apple beat Amazon and Google in the race to become the first trillion-dollar company in the U.S. on Thursday afternoon, when its stock hit $207.0425 a share. (It closed slightly higher.) It’s another...
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A New David Wojnarowicz Exhibition on His Old Cruising Grounds
In the new David Wojnarowicz show at the Whitney, there’s a room with nothing in it. A 1992 recording of the artist reading from his memoir Close to the Knives plays to the white walls. The blinds are...
View ArticleDon’t Call a Harassed Writer a Neo-Nazi
Tech journalist Sarah Jeong, recently hired to the editorial board of The New York Times, became the target of venom and outrage Wednesday and Thursday after conservative outlets found and published...
View ArticleHow to Ignore Rudy Giuliani
Earlier this week, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman reported that Rudy Giuliani, who has served as one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers since April, is falling out of favor in the White House because...
View ArticleThe Media’s Frenzy to Find a Smoking Gun
Since the Russia investigation began, a single question has loomed over it: How will this end? Will special counsel Robert Mueller provide enough evidence to Congress to justify impeachment charges? Or...
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Why Trump Is Blaming California’s Wildfires on Water
Last year was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season in California’s history. But that soon could change. As the state enters the peak month of fire season, wildfires have already burned...
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Mothering and Unmothering
As vocations go, none is so venerated and simultaneously disdained as motherhood. Fraught with essentialized and limiting views of femininity, being a mother often entails demanding recognition for...
View ArticleWhat LeBron Can Prove About Public Education
“I promise to these younger kids and younger generation that I’ll continue to be a role model to them and I’ll continue to lead by example,” LeBron James said in 2013. James kept his promise. Last...
View ArticleTech’s Military Dilemma
On April 3, President Donald Trump sat down to a private dinner with some close associates, including Peter Thiel, his most loyal supporter in Silicon Valley. Thiel had brought Safra Catz, the co-CEO...
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