The case for canceling student debt - Vox Student debt in America needs to go. It's hardly the only ill that needs fixing but it will...

Magic Actions: Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion - n+1 Damn. I don't have enough adjectives for this one. Vast. Heavy....

I cannot stop thinking about a short story/novelette that I read earlier this week, Understand by Ted Chiang. The week before last I was...

'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death - The Guardian (2017) Beyond a history nerd's appreciation...

The Star Trek Communist Hopes Star Trek Can Inspire A Real Revolution - StarTrek.com I have been very fortunate in my...

So... everyone seems to think clubhouse is the "next big thing" - but I think it's going to fail. - @ShaanVP (Tweet Thread) I got on the...

The Negro in Business in Greater New York - The Colored American Magazine Vol. X, No.3 (March, 1906) Here we have an image captured from...

"Cosmological myth (circa AD 2500): 'At the end of the Fifth Sun Age, the god Computer, weary of the forgetfulness and debauchery that...

Amazon isn't exactly hiring goons with cudgels to crack heads but they are using some definite sleazeball tactics in an attempt to thwart...

How Prince Won The Super Bowl - Anil Dash We're about as far away from the next Super Bowl as we can possibly get so as we enter the NFL...

During the undersea salvage effort to recover debris from the Challenger shuttle explosion the Navy discovered 13 shipwrecks, 2 lost...

The headline here makes it seem like we're in for another grandiose self-granted ego stroke from Quentin Tarantino but his nuanced...

I didn't move to NYC in time to ever vote for or against him, and it took me a while to begin to get my bearings in local politics but...

OK I’m thinking we can get at least a feature film, if not a 4 part docu-series about this specific moment in Black History - I like...

Million Dollar Slice - GrubStreet Whoa, this article went in SO MANY different directions in such an unexpected way and I kind of love it...

Crowd Sourcing a Short Squeeze via Reddit While Nuking a Hedge Found and on Behalf of Gamestop For Dummies. In this week's edition of...

Writer/commentator/real-talker Michael Harriot is one of my favorite Twitter follows. Anytime he has "A Thread:" on an aspect of Black...

The Three Kinds of Sitcoms - Fresh Takes, Real Talk This is a light read but a welcome one and a really helpful framework for analyzing...

Haddonfield’s Teens Just Want to “Cancel” Michael Myers - McSweeney's LOL. McSweeny's is once again on point with this satire re: the...

Above is a quote from The Handmaid's Tale which has haunted me ever since I read it a few years ago and which I included in a piece I...