Why women are walking away from the New Right
Sam Adler-Bell recently published a profile in New York magazine about women who have left, or are quietly leaving, the…
Nancy Guthrie and the gamification of crime
Nancy Guthrie had been missing for less than 48 hours when the game began. Not the investigation, which was already…
Life in Chicago with ICE and the National Guard
Every day, Chicagoans outside the immediate areas where federal forces are deploying pick up fragments of what feels like an…
We are all witches now
Two days before Charlie Kirk was murdered, Claire Guinan, a writer for the US women’s website Jezebel, paid witches online…
The internet has turned us all into accidental witches
Two days before Charlie Kirk was murdered, Jezebel writer Claire Guinan paid witches on Etsy to hex him. When I…
Robin Westman and the unstoppable tide of ‘slop violence’
On Wednesday, doing my laundry, I decided to turn on the TV for the first time in decades. Breaking news:…
How we lost the ability to think
I’m sitting in a meditation class at a yoga studio in Chicago, neon lights pulsing pink and purple while the…
