The Long Plot to Escape From Work
Tommy, who retired at 51, built savings using a combination of “automatic payroll deductions, compounding interest, reinvested dividends, stock growth, consistent dollar-cost averaging,” and a...
View ArticleThe Artist Isn’t Dead
I studied to be a painter in college and had what I now know is a pretty common experience. My fellow students and I produced dumpster loads of bad art, debated theory that was nearly 20 years out of...
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The Perpetual Disappointment of Remote Work
What will the Covid-19 pandemic look like from the future? Perhaps the exceptional imagery will be most lasting: personless cityscapes, protesters in masks (and anti-mask protesters), the empty shelves...
View ArticleThe Bungled Vaccine Rollout Is a Bad Omen
Millions of usable Covid-19 vaccine doses in the United States could expire by the end of January before being administered. Roughly 10 percent of the available 40 million doses have been dispatched so...
View ArticleCan a Union Make Google Less Evil?
On Monday, with a rollout full of social media fanfare and a declaration of intent on the New York Times opinion page, the workers of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced the formation of a...
View ArticleThe Election in Georgia Is About Reproductive Justice
For 48 hours in the lead-up to Georgia’s general election, Malika Redmond, director of a grassroots voter engagement group, was working without electricity. “I laugh now,” she told me. “Hurricane Zeta...
View ArticleTrump Blew Up Ted Cruz’s Cynical Plan to Contest the Election
“All I want to do is this,” Donald Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a rambling, lie- and conspiracy-infested hourlong telephone call on Saturday. “I just want to find...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the Facebook Menace
Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources of the highest-performing links on Facebook in the United States.On one...
View ArticleWho Really Loses When America Phases Out Natural Gas?
On Sunday, The New York Times published a piece profiling a handful of recent college grads, all outfitted with varying forms of geology or engineering degrees and struggling to find a foothold in the...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Historical Precedent for Ted Cruz’s Shameless Electoral College...
One hundred and forty-five years ago, the United States was locked in a constitutional crisis. Bloodshed and intimidation against Black voters and their white Republican allies in the South had...
View ArticleCrying at Work Isn’t the Answer
It all started with an Instagram ad. The item for sale was a graphic tee with large, feminine typography that said: I cry at work. The shirt, by the Los Angeles–based company ban.do, cost $38. By the...
View ArticleA Shrine to the Most Tasteless Man in America
As Donald Trump’s time in the White House comes to an end, some creative folks have already begun to imagine his presidential library. A Florida man has offered Trump his trailer park as the site. And...
View ArticleCan Oysters Save Our Seas?
You know who had a weirdly great 2020? “Oysters,” Rachel Dean told me. Oysters grew fatter and faster than expected last year, and diners frequently weren’t around to eat them.Rachel and her husband,...
View ArticleTrump Is Finally Tearing the GOP Apart
Tom Cotton has been one of Donald Trump’s most loyal and consistent supporters. He has defended Trump repeatedly, even when the president in September refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power....
View ArticleA Novelist’s Reckoning With Identity Politics
When Trump won the 2016 presidential election, an editor I worked with asked me: What did I think as a Muslim American? The question troubled me, because I had never thought of myself as a “Muslim...
View ArticleThe Exciting New Trick That Converts Good Jobs Into Crappy Gig Work
The highly contentious and wildly expensive Prop 22 is already doing what it was designed to do, and Californians are seeing the grim reality of an economy saturated with independent contractors. (Or...
View ArticleThe Corporations Funding the End of Democracy
What are we going to do about what’s happening in Congress today? If we’re honest with ourselves, most of us will do nothing. There are, granted, different varieties of nothing. And one of the...
View ArticleSaving Lisa Montgomery’s Life Requires More Than Stopping Her Execution
When Donald Trump leaves the White House on January 20, 2021, he will be known, among other dishonors, for having executed more federal prisoners in a single year than any other before him. This may...
View ArticleGeorgia Shows the GOP’s Dismal Future Without Trump
In the bewildering, seemingly interminable period between the conclusion of voting in the 2020 election and the networks’ declaration that Joe Biden had won, one thing seemed clear: The GOP had a...
View ArticleModerate Democrats Rule Washington Now
The apparent Democratic Senate sweep in Georgia is a fitting coda to the destructive narcissism and strutting authoritarianism of the Donald Trump years. It was Trump’s refusal to accept his rightfully...
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