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When I first moved to the UK, I noticed all my friends who lived in flats were always complaining about "freeholders." The first few times I asked to have this

By any objective measure, Adrian Tomine is a success: from his groundbreaking and definitive Optic Nerve comic to his work in the @NewYorker, Tomine is a great and influential artist;

Australia - like many English-speaking countries - is full of lovely people who somehow manage to keep electing far-right, genocidal, climate-denying governments of surpassing administrative incompetence.1/ The most likely explanation:

Grace is a Black 15 year old child with ADHD who has been in jail since the start of pandemic because she could not do her homework, which meant she

"Essential, front-line workers" is 2020-speak for "low-waged, economically precarious workers who risk their lives for us." To all that, add "workers who are showered with abuse by right-wing anti-mask bullies."

Economists of every stripe, from Marx to Milton Friedman, have a consensus on the nature of land: "Land is a natural commons — it belongs to everyone, and that land

Consulting giant McKinsey may have gotten a lot of bad PR over the past year - from its collaboration with the murderous Saudi regime to its work to expand Riker's

Hey guess what? We have a homeschool-to-prison pipeline now.https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention1/ Grace is a 15-year-old with ADHD and a long history of beha

My latest @locusmag column is "Full Employment," in which I forswear "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" as totally incompatible with the climate emergency, which will consume 100%+ of all human labor

.@hankgreen's debut novel "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing" was just about the most hankgreenian novel you could imagine: a compassionate, expainly, fast-moving well-told tale about social media stardom and polarization:https:/

Though I love good rants, I struggle to differentiate good rants from their tedious, far more common cousins, bad rants. It's all about staying power. It's been 18 years since

Whenever I think of grifters, I get that classic image of an overconfident, self-destructive idiot racing across a river on the backs of alligators, certain that they won't stumble and