Our society is littered with glaring examples of the rich and powerful facing minimal consequences for their actions – often until their secrets are unearthed and public outcry ensues. In some cases,

Posted on September 24, 2019 Posted by John Scalzi The working day started off with Boris Johnson’s proroguing of parliament called unconstitutional in an 11-0 decision by the UK’s Supreme Court , and

The science is clear. The world’s leading experts have long known that climate change is caused by human beings, it is here, and it is accelerating. We already see its effects — record floods, devasta

CHICAGO (AP) — As a young scholar, Elizabeth Warren traveled to federal courthouses, studying families overwhelmed by debt. She brought along a photocopier, gathering reams of statistics as she tried

Illustration by Michelle Wong Living in a city with 8.8 million other people certainly has its downsides. You notice them as you squeeze onto the already full carriage. It’s a silent game we play toge

Warren teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the early 1990s. Photo: Leif Skoogfors/Corbis via Getty Images The story of Elizabeth Warren ’s career in education — at least in legal

Word. 23 min read· Jan 24, 2016 -- (This is an edited version of a speech that I gave to the Inclusive Astronomy conference in June, 2015, and an extension of thinking that began with a piece I wrote

Three months ago, Special Counsel Robert Mueller completed his investigation into Russian election interference and President Donald Trump’s obstruction of justice. When the redacted report finally be

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Alex Wong/Getty Images My old American Prospect editor Mark Schmitt had a maxim I always liked: “It’s not what you say about the issues; it’s what the issues say about you.” Mark’s line came to mind w

The debate dominated the discussion for two days in the middle of 1787′s Constitutional Convention, raising awkward questions about race and personhood that foreshadowed a bloody conflict decades late

“The Research on Her Record: Why Kamala’s Time As a Prosecutor and Attorney General Are a Damn Good Thing.” 5 min read · Jun 28, 2019 -- After watching Kamala Harris’s stellar performance in the debat

Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii The “aloha spirit” may hold a deep lesson for all of us. June 28, 2019 We asked people on Oahu to give their ethnicity. Many had long answers. Credit... Photogra

Oligarchic capitalism? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a plan for that. Opioid deaths? She’s got a plan for that, too. Same is true for high housing costs , offshoring , child care , breaking up big

3 min read · Jun 24, 2019 -- An Introduction “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.” -Carl Sagan “Diamonds on Black Velvet” is the usual descriptio

Student debt is a crisis, for students and for graduates living with debt. There’s near-universal bipartisan agreement that reform is desperately needed, but almost as much disagreement about what, ex

Posted in: Personal Essay , Random Musings I am scheduled to leave for Germany in several days. I have already told my husband that I don’t want to go, in a whining tone that stretches syllables out s

I talk a good game on Twitter — about staying true to yourself in graduate school, about being more than your research, about being a whole person. All of that talk is often fueled by my failure to do any of those things well. I have written in these pages before about how graduate school, and the…

Communication is essential to ethical sex. Typically, our public discussions focus on only one narrow kind of communication: requests for sex followed by consent or refusal . But notice that we use la

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I had not worn the socks in years when I fished them out of the back of the drawer. They had survived the journey to college and six subsequent moves. They were one of the few relics of my past that h

Over the last few years, especially after Donald Trump ‘s victory in the 2016 US presidential election, we have been witnessing the normalisation , and rise, of a white-supremacist, ultranationalist b

The “marshmallow test” has intrigued a generation of parents and educationalists with its promise that a young child’s willpower and self-control holds a key to their success in later life. But there

Can you imagine a world without heartbreak? Not without sadness, disappointment or regret – but a world without the sinking, searing, all-consuming ache of lost love. A world without heartbreak is als

It’s fashionable in the Donald Trump era to decry political “tribalism,” especially if you’re a conservative attempting to criticize Trump without incurring the wrath of his supporters. House Speaker

There’s a new winner for the coveted title of most expensive ballot initiative campaign in American history. And it’s a race that’s been waged completely under the national radar. In California, the d

He stood on the outer edge of the sidewalk, hands clasped behind him—handcuffed, perhaps, by the immensity of the moment. He knew the city of Springfield, Illinois, well. But on June 16, 1858, Abraham

“I was … wondering whether I would just be jumping in front of a train that was headed to where it was headed anyway, and that I would just be personally annihilated.” — Christine Blasey Ford , on whe

Posted in: Nothing to Do With Travel , Personal Essay (Above: my student ID in 1999. Let’s just keep our comments to ourselves.) There’s this pattern I keep seeing. It goes like this: Woman accuses ma

Posted on September 11, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi In the past twenty years, I’m not sure my personal set of politics have changed all that much. I’m pretty sure what has changed is how people view th

Posted on September 10, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi This one is easy: I’ve had the same spouse the last 20 years, and if I’m lucky I’ll have the same one twenty years from now, and if I’m really lucky

Impeachment is a constitutional mechanism. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is a constitutional mechanism. Mass resignations followed by voluntary testimony to congressional committees are a constitutional

Posted on September 6, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi So, let’s review the presidents we’ve had since 1998: A sexually harassing policy wonk, a genial imbecile, a malevolent imbecile, and Barack Obama. I

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Learn More about Crooked's Friends of the Pod Learn More about Crooked's Friends of the Pod August 27, 2018 Mourning a Patriot Whose Politics You Hate Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCai

When iOS 12 launches this fall, it will introduce a newly redesigned iBooks app simply named Books. Though the reading experience in Books is largely the same as before, the rest of the app is drastic