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Recent headlines about the denim ad wars —Levi’s tapping Beyoncé, American Eagle turning to Sydney Sweeney, Gap retreating after backlash—have offered a telling glimpse of how American brands still…

Welcome to “ Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and busy but also like to learn about new books! I’m claiming to have made up this game, but if you’ve ever showed up for class…

A federal school voucher program , or “universal school choice” as supporters call it, is a key piece of the Right’s agenda to dramatically change education as we’ve known it . A central element in…

In his latest broadside, amateur poet (and Health and Human Services Secretary) Robert F. Kennedy Jr has promised “massive studies” to investigate a link between school shootings and antidepressants…

This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. Elon Musk has been…

While Jewish history is so often recounted as a linear pathway — usually pointing toward and ending with the creation of the State of Israel — it’s easy to forget that it’s a tradition of cycles. The…

Last I checked, my uterus was in a jar in Schenectady. An ignoble end for a thing that was once burdened with glorious purpose, like an old prizewinning racehorse going off to the glue factory. It’s…

Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria and viruses, microscopic organisms that invade our bodies and make us sick. They seem natural…

A grainy, jittery video has gone viral on social media. Duct-taped to a chair and goggle-eyed with fear, the hostage, a Dark MAGA tech bro, is petrified—and for good reason: the balaclava-clad…

Ever since those velvet curtains parted to reveal that Robert Francis Prevost—aka Leo XIV—was the next pope of the Roman Catholic Church, journalists and meme-makers alike began joyously delighting in…