Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I haven’t given y’all a history lesson in a while, and I want to give you a little history on homelessness. In 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for ...

This Is Not My Beautiful House From a February 4 complaint by the U.S. Department of Justice against the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor’s, charging that S&P fraudulently inflated ratings on ...

Unloaded Magazines From a list of 891 periodicals removed in July from the U.S. Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s on-base stores. Magazine sales at military exchanges declined by 18.3 percent ...

From Campfires of the Dead and the Living, a short story collection, which will be published next month by 11:11 Press. “Is this your good shirt with the frayed collar ...

Tort Fishing in America From the November 2014 Supreme Court oral argument in Yates v. United States. In 2007, a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer found seventy-two undersize red grouper on John L.

The ecstatic cult of Nicolas CageDiscussed in this essay: Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, by Keith Phipps. Henry Holt. 288 pages. $27.99. L ast fall, hoping to draw ...

Against “relevance” in artB ecause these battles are still being fought, I hesitate to articulate the ways in which I think our use of the word “relevant” is distorting our appraisals of art. But I ...

How not to become an anarchistDiscussed in this essay: The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Harper Perennial. 400 pages. $16.99. The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Farrar, ...

I first read the Book of Revelation in a green pocket-size King James New Testament published by the motel missionaries Gideons International. I was in seventh grade. I remember reading the tiny Bible ...

Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracyF ive months after Donald Trump moved into the White House in 2017, a reporter asked Vladimir Putin about the allegations that Russia had ...

Philip Roth reviews his own biographerDiscussed in this essay: Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey. W. W. Norton. 912 pages. $40. I ’ve never understood what others make out of non-fiction. Me ...

China’s covert campaign to intimidate Uighur exilesA diljan Abdurrahim woke up in his one-bedroom Istanbul apartment on March 28, 2016, without much to do. This was how it was most days, but he put on ...