Roe v Wade has been overturned. Here’s what this will mean by Moira Donegan Even before the draft of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health was leaked to the press in May, the outcome was predictable. That doesn’t … Continue reading Outside Reading — To No Longer Stand By Things Decided edition
Made for Television by Emily Nussbaum Writing for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum delivers an entertaining profile of spouses Robert and Michelle King and their splendid stable of offbeat television programs. Our household is all in on Evil, and we … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Garden of Good and Evil edition
Stay Furious by Jessica Valenti Going all the way back to the time the George W. Bush administration was in power, I believed the most long-lasting damage exacted by that particular crew of amoral miscreants would be the following: A … Continue reading Outside Reading — Anger Is an Energy edition
Kathleen Hanna Won’t Save You, So Stop Asking Her To by Laura Wynne This week brought the unlikely return of Creem. The brattier counterpoint to Rolling Stone in the nineteen-seventies and nineteen-eighties relaunched as a robustly updated website and a … Continue reading Outside Reading — Your Best American Grrrl edition
What It’s Like Here by Albert Burneko I’ve had such a difficult time processing the events of this week, including the steady revelations of how abominably law enforcement and other officials in Texas responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary … Continue reading Outside Reading — Safety Last edition
The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin by Dave Itzkoff I think I’ve made my appreciation for the work of George Carlin abundant clear around this here digital place. Plenty of other people dogging cars out there on the superhighway feel … Continue reading Outside Reading — Saint George edition
It’s been a rough, infuriating, disheartening week. There are a multitude of individuals far more qualified than me to explain why, so I will cede my digital floor to a few of them. Fuck You, I’m Done by Jessica Valenti … Continue reading Outside Reading — Abortion Is Health Care edition
Why U.S. Consumers Are Vulnerable to Spiking Oil Prices by Hiroko Tabuchi and Maggie Astor In today’s edition of The New York Times, reporters Hiroko Tabuchi and Maggie Astor offer a straightforward accounting of the ways in which the U.S. … Continue reading Outside Reading — Crude edition
Whoops of selfish delight by Robin Givhan Set aside for a moment that the federal mask mandate for airplane and other mass transit was struck down through legal reasoning of questionable merit by an unqualified judge given her position because … Continue reading Outside Reading — Cabin Pressure edition
The Story Behind That Photo of Ketanji Brown Jackson and Her Daughter by Gina Cherelus In the interest of focusing on the positive, I am setting aside the instinct to engage with arguments made in bad faith to instead celebrate … Continue reading Outside Reading — Through Sarahbeth Maney’s Lens edition
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