As anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to American politics in the last 4 years knows, one of Donald Trump’s favorite things is to announce a pending “executive order
This is from the original version of Maureen Dowd’s column this week. The one 800-word column a week she’s paid six figures to write with the assistance of staff: To use a phrase all of th
In case climate change wasn’t stressing the world’s species enough, human politics and failure to govern is driving many of them to extinction. The story of the monarch butterfly, an iconi
I think a thread is in order on the Congressional primaries so far this year. It’s been very interesting, including this week. A few thoughts. Left-wing challengers to party functionaries in lef
Look, I’m not saying that as attacks on free speech go it rises to the level of, say, Bari Weiss being denied her inalienable right not to be criticized, but nonetheless this seems pretty bad: M
I haven’t seen any shows in five months, which is terrible. But I have read a lot and that has included a few books about music. Might as well discuss them. First, I read Stephen Foehr’s W
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals today lifted an injunction that had stopped Arkansas from enforcing regulations on abortion it passed in 2017. The reason? John Roberts’s concurrence in June Med
I have a review of Simon Jimenez’s debut novel, The Vanished Birds, up at Strange Horizons. This is easily one of my favorite books of the year, a chewy far-future space adventure whose focus is