Immigrants Are ‘Normal People Forced to Flee Their Countries’
For those who only listen to sound bites, the word immigrant conjures frightening notions—outsiders on a quest to thwart our ...
Why Does Anyone Care About the Nobel Prize?
The beginning of his life as a Nobel laureate in chemistry had to wait until morning. He was still in his pajamas when the ...
The Poet of Loose Women Everywhere
This independence is most perfectly embodied in Cisneros’s 1994 poetry collection, Loose Woman. I came across the titular ...
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Donald Trump’s Fascist Romp
Over the past week, Donald Trump has been on a fascist romp. At rallies in Colorado and California, he amped up his usual ...
Inside the Carjacking Crisis
Two of the teens had been arrested for armed carjacking eight months earlier; one was still on probation. This was in keeping ...
Dogs Are Entering a New Wave of Domestication
Humans need to breed and train more puppies like service animals.
The Collapse of the Khamenei Doctrine
A year of conflict in the Middle East has destroyed the foreign-policy approach of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali ...
Eight Great Reads
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school. Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living ...
A Radical Vision of the Sick Body
It is a radical gesture to treat the sick body, a body threatened by its own demise, as one that is also capable of ...
America Is Suffering an Identity Crisis
In two years, the U.S. will mark its 250th birthday, and people on the left don’t seem to care—giving up on America’s symbols ...
The Question Hanging Over Harris’s Campaign
Granted, we’re not obliged to take Harris’s campaign pronouncements at face value, and there is no question that she has ...
How Ariana Grande Brought Bad Singing to SNL
Ariana Grande is, notably, a good singer; she has a four-octave range that she uses for R&B ballads, pop bangers, and musical-theater showstoppers. But her stint hosting Saturday Night Live last night ...