Society

Cash-strapped farmers, gaps in the public safety net, and food inspection backlogs that could reshape who eats what in the weeks, months, and years to come.

Social media has been a familiar, even mundane, part of life for nearly two decades. It can be easy to forget it was not always that way. In 2008, social media was just emerging into the mainstream. Facebook reached 100 million users that summer. And a singular candidate was integrating social media into his political campaign: Barack Obama. His campaign’s use of social media was so bracingly innovative, so impactful, that it was viewed by journalist David Talbot and others as the strategy that enabled the first term Senator to win the White House...

As far as I could tell, women’s soccer started with the 99ers, and there was no looking back. But I was wrong.

My conversation with Zev Shalev

How Top Grads Strategically Use AI to Improve Their Chances of Success

I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...

A Political Theory of American Collapse

“Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.”

From an American with Love

The Trump administration just quietly removed a memorial to Black U.S.

The Marketization of Conscience in an Age Without Shame

I’ve been re-watching Tony Gilroy’s masterpiece Andor. In the first season, the story reaches one of its most evocative moral crescendos when Andy Serkis’ character, Kino Loy, delivers one of the most stirring monologues in contemporary screenwriting.

Truth Costs More Than Most People Are Willing to Pay

Viking Properties, Inc. v. Holm - 118 P.3d 322

Thoughts on the artist's role in cultural change.

My husband and I live on 2.5 rural acres that he bought before we were married. For less than the present price of most new vehicles, he got land that

This article was originally published by The Conversation. Drones have become integrated into everyday life over the past decade – in sectors as diverse

After forty days.

Shaun Maguire—venture capital partner, SpaceX bet winner, sophisticated bigot—wants you to know that Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything.” That it’s “literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda.”

Jason Calacanis and the Sophisticated Art of Excusing Everything

A Comprehensive Defense of the Liberal Tradition and a Case for Its Renewal

Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

An excerpt from my book, Weeb Economy.