National Day of Mourning

November 24, 2021 on Current Affairs, Equality, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by F.I. Goldhaber

National Day of Mourning

November 24, 2021 on Current Affairs, Equality, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by F.I. Goldhaber

Weeks preceding National Day of Mourning brought even more examples, to pile on top of myriad others, of the inequity on which this country was built.

The Last Leg of a Critical Race: An Agony in Eight Fits

November 20, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Sean Davis

Sean Davis continues his Dispatches From the Apocalypse series with a new essay about Kyle Rittenhouse and his trial, and the frenzy around Critical Race Theory. 

Dispatches From the Apocalypse: America Has an Extreme! Problem. (November 6, 2021)

November 6, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Sean Davis

In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, he waxes philosophical on the current state of our culture and humanity, including the empty meaningness of all things excess and extreme. 

Dispatches From the Apocalypse: Taming Roko’s Basilisk (October 23, 2021)

October 23, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Sean Davis

In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, he examines how we’re great at finding solutions … it’s just that we’re focused on all of the wrong problems. 

Dispatches From the Apocalypse: We have angered the Algorithm. (October 9, 2021)

October 9, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Sean Davis

In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, he looks at the destructive results, social and psychological, of continuing to ratchet up the Great Algorithm. 

Dispatches From the Apocalypse: We Are the Darkest Timeline Versions of Ourselves (September 25, 2021)

September 25, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Sean Davis

In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, he explains how Johnny Depp, DaBaby, Nicki Minaj, and time-traveling road warriors have saved us all.

Dispatches From the Apocalypse: The Immortal Rich and the Illusion of Justified Hatred (September 15, 2021)

September 15, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Sean Davis

In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, “The Immortal Rich and the Illusion of Justified Hatred,” Davis explains the decline of America since 9/11.

Dispatches From the Apocalypse: Texas Is a Big Part of This New Extinction Level Event (September 8, 2021)

September 8, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Sean Davis

In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, “Texas Is a Big Part of This New Extinction Level Event,” Davis offers advice to the future on how not to kill ourselves.

Dispatches From the Apocalypse: Horse Dewormer & Robot Overlords (August 30, 2021)

August 30, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Sean Davis

In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, “Horse Dewormer & Robot Overlords,” Davis documents the latest news, from Kardashians to ivermectin. 

Masking, Vaxxing, Manipulating, and Grieving

August 25, 2021 on Current Affairs, Featured, My take on ..., Residents by Benjamin Vogt

Benjamin Vogt examines what is at the core of the division and tumult of these times: an inability to process grief. And the pandemic has delivered plenty of it.