What it Sounds Like After You’ve Gone Soaring
There’s a new trend in pop music: a sibilant, machine-like, static white-noise. Since these things are supposed have names, let’s call it “the fizz.”
A look back at the beginning of l’affaire Pussy Riot in the wake of their sentencing.
The document shapes our memory, and our knowledge of the potential for documentation shapes our present and future. I make my Facebook profile? My Facebook profile makes me? Things are getting messy.
When he asks “Where are you going?” he really means “Why haven’t you bought me a gun yet?”
Mitt Romney Nut Taps Across Europe
A series of nut-tap gaffes by presidential candidate Mitt Romney has resulted in a diplomatic imbroglio.
That Washington is a city riven by stark divisions — of class, of race, of opportunity — is a fact sadly beyond dispute. Yet the recent AIDS conference did draw attention to one of the city’s most troubling fault lines — the deadly geography of HIV/AIDS.
Walter White Is Not a Monster. You Are.
Walter White is a creepy husband in a Lifetime movie, and your continued adoration of him makes me think twice about sharing my personal information with you.
What I’m writing now is meant as nothing more than a love letter to a filmmaker who I never sought out, but who has emerged at unexpected moments, and whose films have woven themselves into my life in ways I could never have predicted.
Anatomy of a Hit Cycle: Country Music Edition
For months now I’ve been tuning in to WGAR 99.5, Cleveland’s Hit Country Music Station, and recently I did a little experiment: I turned on the radio and decided to listen until one song, any song, was repeated.
Today in Economics: The Government Should Buy Everyone a Beer
Amid the scorching summer heat, it’s become clear that it would be totally awesome if the government could get us a little drunk.