David Talbot
Jul 11, 20194 min read
Talbot / An American Dystopia
San Francisco has been turned into such a grotesque dystopia in the last several years that even the tech industry that ruined The City...
Trilby Beresford & Abid Rahman / Hollywood
Jul 4, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / Mad Magazine to Effectively Shutter After 67 Years
The beloved satire publication will no longer be sold on newsstands after the August issue, and future editions will shift to previously...
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post
Jul 4, 20192 min read
Outside Sources / Goodbye America! Tanks for Everything!
Well, America, it has been great. On the Fourth of July, President Trump and his followers are taking over the Mall and the Lincoln...
Huffington Post
Jul 1, 20193 min read
Outside Sources / Canadian Cartoonist Loses His Job After Trump Drawing Goes Viral
Cartoonist Michael de Adder’s contract with four Canadian newspapers was terminated last week after one of his political cartoons...
Frank Browning
Apr 16, 20191 min read
Browning / Notre Dame, France’s Heart on Fire
The words speckled my screen just before sunset: Incendie à Notre Dame, Christophe typed, fresh out of a daily contractor meeting for an...
Luke Kemp / BBC Future
Mar 17, 20191 min read
Outside Sources / Are We on the Road to Civilization Collapse?
DEEP CIVILIZATION This article is part of a new BBC Future series about the long view of humanity, which aims to stand back from the...
theGuardian.com
Feb 26, 20191 min read
Outside Sources / Journalist, 12, faces off with police officer who threatened to arrest her
Hilde Lysiak filmed the encounter with an Arizona marshal, demanding to know what crime she was being accused of. It sounds like...
John Naughton / theGuardian.com
Feb 23, 20193 min read
Outside Sources / 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalis
Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John...
Elliott Negin / Art: Dan Hubig © 2018
Dec 9, 20189 min read
Will Koch Pull the Plug on Electric Cars?
When multibillionaire industrialist Charles Koch perceives a potential threat to his fossil fuel empire, he doesn’t mess around. To...
David Talbot
Sep 10, 20184 min read
Talbot / America ... 'Great' & Gray
I applaud the late John McCain's daughter Meghan for fighting through her tears as she delivered a eulogy at her father's funeral,...
David Talbot
Jul 20, 20182 min read
Talbot / Left Wing of the Possible
"I'm a radical...(But) I want to be on the left wing of the possible." That's how activist-author Michael Harrington, co-founder of the...
Michael Ventura / Art: Dan Hubig
Jul 12, 20187 min read
Ventura at 4AM / THIS USA: Origins
Each sluggish turn of the world has such disinherited to whom belongs neither what’s been nor what’s coming next. Rainer Maria Rilke, The...
David Talbot
Jul 2, 20182 min read
Talbot / The New Democratic Party?
The most exciting, most encouraging political development in America today is, without a doubt, the wave of new energy in the left wing...