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
U.S. Open Changes Course on Women Changing Shirts Alizé Cornet said she was surprised by the uproar caused by a code violation she received in her first-round match on Tuesday. Credit... Corinne Dubre
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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
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Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at century-old images of U.S. streets. There’s a window of a dozen or so years at the beginning of the 20th century, at the dawn of the automobile age, where American cities were remarkably multimodal—including a wide range of small personal…
A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America. Over the last
A woman gets on a plane. She’s flying from New York to Dallas, where she lives and works as a personal trainer. A couple asks her if she’ll switch seats with one of them so that they can sit together,
Posted on May 7, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi Let’s start off the 2018 Reader Request Week with a topic that several of you were interested in because of recent news, although I’m using Laura’s question
9.2 Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we explore Built to Spill’s winding, monumental 1997 album
By Jamie Varon Updated February 6, 2022 By Jamie Varon Updated February 6, 2022 We don’t commit now. We don’t see the point. They’ve always said there are so many fish in the sea, but never before has
Critic’s Notebook Cliff Huxtable Was Bill Cosby’s Sickest Joke Bill Cosby leaving court on Thursday after being found guilty of sexual assault. If a sexual predator wanted to come up with a smoke scre
Small tweaks to incentivize engaging with a book’s content. 5 min read · Apr 13, 2018 -- I’ve been using Kindles on and off ever since they launched. Our relationship has been contentious but I’ve alw
America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern. We mourn. Offer thoughts and prayers. Speculate about the motives. And then—even as no developed country endures a homicid
On May 1, 2003, the day President George W. Bush landed on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in front of the massive “Mission Accomplished” sign, I was in Baghdad performing what had become a daily ritual. I
Op-Ed Contributor John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment A musket from the 18th century, when the Second Amendment was written, and an assault rifle of today. Rarely in my lifetime have I seen
They Push. They Protest. And Many Activists, Privately, Suffer as a Result. Ashley Yates is a Black Lives Matter organizer in Oakland, Calif. Credit... Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times For mo
Posted on March 25, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi The San Francisco “March For Our Lives.” Photo by Gregory Varnum, used via Creative Commons license. Click on photo for original. A few thoughts on the M
As I opened the CT scan last week to read the next case, I was baffled. The history simply read “gunshot wound.” I have been a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States for
I’ve been testing Apple’s new HomePod for the last week or so, and this is the first product review I’ve written that could be accurately summarized in the length of a tweet, and an old-school 140-cha
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