On the pain and horror concealed beneath cheerful images.

Dr. Alina Chan has been one of the most prominent commentators on the origins of COVID-19. Here, she explains why the binary of “natural origin” versus “lab leak” is misleading and simplistic.

Susan Sontag was right: cameras define reality in ways essential to the workings of a capitalist society.

Incarceration is an evil, and it’s unconscionable to do it for the sake of employing people. We need public works projects that uplift people rather than those that increase human suffering.

Investigative journalist and automotive industry expert Edward Niedermeyer, author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors, explains how Musk and Tesla have gotten away with so much lying and fraudulence.

Members of the press think they’re doing a good job reporting on climate change. They need to read their own publications.

Prof. John McWhorter and Nathan J. Robinson discuss whether the social justice movement is deranged as Prof. McWhorter suggests.

It’s non-negotiable. Writers should refuse to produce uncompensated work, and publications should be shamed when they ask for it.