‘Imprisoned men and women are the drivers of a multibillion-dollar shadow economy: its laborers and its prey’
August 31, 2018
‘For decades, Manafort gave guidance to murderers around the world. It was only in America, the country that had shaped his tactics, that he found a partial comeuppance.’
August 24, 2018
‘If you wish to celebrate yourself, to feel part of something bigger, to express pride in a heritage, you can do better than the cruel sucking nullity of whiteness’
August 17, 2018
‘New York has a long history of radical women who have stood at the helm of social movements, often in times of great social ferment.’
Originally published August 9, 2018
In praise of close friends and cold soup
August 2, 2018
‘I have chosen to fight, to raise a big and hideous and ungovernable howl for the girl I was and the girls who have yet to be’
Originally published July 27, 2018
‘At the root of the Russia scandal are the parallels between Trump and Putin that animate all our president’s unsavory behavior: a willingness to loot and an eagerness to lie’
July 19, 2018
‘Musk’s gesture to help Flint suits his flair for showmanship; it typifies his attitude toward public action’
July 13, 2018
‘A country without legal abortion is not a country without abortion. It’s just a country in which more women die.’
Originally published July 6, 2018
‘The call to be meek and passive feels like an insult. Even a turned cheek burns when it’s slapped.’
June 27, 2018