The Grind Old Party
Hating work and wanting to do less of it is one of the few things that unites nearly everybody across demographics. But right-wing labor policy is threatening to grind us all into dust.
News Briefing: April 4, 2025
Trump’s tariff chaos, British police raid a Quaker meeting house, Pam Bondi wants to execute Luigi, Cory Booker talks for a very long time, AND MUCH MORE...
Politicians Don’t Want to Talk About Poverty
Politicians love to talk about helping and growing the middle class while utterly ignoring the millions of American families living in poverty.
The White Male Writer is Fine, I Promise
In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature today.
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