In Politics, K-Pop Fans Turn Up the Volume
Reading Time: 5 minutes Folk and rock fans drove the peace movement of the 1960s; can K-pop stans help stop Trump?
Summertime and the Living’s Uneasy
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the “best of times, worst of times” tradition, an analysis of what’s to come in 2020.
Antifa, Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
Reading Time: < 1 minute President Trump and his attorney general love to raise the specter of antifa as a bogeyman. But the FBI has yet to find its involvement in recent protests, and there’s no indication it’s an actual organization.
The Reopening: How to Doll Up Dining During Social Distancing
Reading Time: 3 minutes As restaurants reopen at limited capacity, some are taking a creative approach to filling their empty tables.
Absentee Voting in New York Seen as a ‘Challenging’ and ‘Scary’ Experience
Reading Time: 4 minutes Think you can avoid the coronavirus pandemic if you vote by mail in next November’s presidential election? It’s worth checking out what happened in New York during the recent primary election.
Hollywood Has Sold Us ‘Copaganda’
Reading Time: 18 minutes The co-creator of S.W.A.T. talks about how 50 years of police shows on television have shaped and undermined our views of policing and race.
The Arrogance of Power: Bill Barr and the Ghost of John Mitchell
Reading Time: 11 minutes The Hall of Shame for attorneys general is getting a new member, who almost daily conquers new heights in the art of dissembling.
More Red States Mulling Green Light for Medicaid Expansion
Reading Time: 6 minutes Pandemic concerns — and ballot initiatives — are changing minds in holdout states.
Georgia Certifies Election Results Despite Serious Flaw in Ballot Scanners
Reading Time: 4 minutes Election security advocates claim that hundreds of absentee ballots were misread, flagged for review, or simply thrown away due to uncertified ballot scanners.
Reparations and Juneteenth
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is $300,000 per person an extravagant amount to pay Black citizens for generational poverty originating with slavery?