The Tension of Today
Square paintings that take the smallest things—a gas station’s roof, a swing set’s leg—and find unease in the most cheerful of circumstances.
Archive
A collection of 14232 issues
August 2, 2013: Afternoon
* Beijing scalpers dominate Apple Genius Bar appointments, then sell appointments online. * Austerity be damned, most Europeans refuse to work through their plentiful, sacred holidays. * MetaFilter collects Queen Elizabeth's nuclear war speech and other undelivered speeches. * Because Breaking Bad is so probing about morality, the finale also raises the
August 2, 2013: Morning
* Putin has used Snowden's plight...to pose as a human rights defender and to cast the Obama administration as disingenuous. * A Soviet-era re-enactment bunker, the former home of Pablo Escobar, and other bizarre amusement parks. * Assad's Instagram provides a whitewashed, propagandized look inside Syria&
E Pluribus, Gen X
Generation X has always been able to fashion its own best outcome. Now it’s time to take that DIY attitude and fix the nation. Because you know who really won the American Revolution? That’s right: Slackers.
Finding Boundaries to Cross
Journalists must go further in search of the full story.
August 1, 2013: Afternoon
* Commerce Department’s gross domestic product revisions say the Great Recession wasn't so bad. * Assessment of the state of the male contraceptive pill: for both scientific and social reasons, there's no bright future ahead. * Winners from climate change include brain-eating parasites that flourish in America&
Put These on My Byline
In line at the grocery store, the economics of online writing.
August 1, 2013: Morning
* Zimbabwe's prime minister Tsvangirai calls election a "huge farce," with elaborate vote-rigging by Mugabe. * Reporters struggle to describe bustling neighborhood completely destroyed by Assad in Syria's third-largest city, Homs. * Portraits of possessionless, religious nomads in India and Nepal. * Occupy-style protests, underwritten
July 31, 2013: Afternoon
* New Snowden documents show NSA program "XKeyscore" collects nearly everything people do on the internet, with "real-time" interception. * Round-up of journalists' and politicians' reactions to the Manning verdict. * Dos and don'ts of escalator etiquette, where "leisure"-oriented commuters
Pope Fabulous
Pope Francis’s recent remark that he would not judge gay priests was a revolutionary moment for the church—a moment, in fact, worth twerking into verse.