Somewhere in America right now, a man is craning his neck over a stranger’s shopping cart. He has spotted something obscene. Not a weapon. Not contraband. A box of Trix. The stranger paid with SNAP. The man does the math immediately, the way outrage always does math: badly, and with total confidence. He has decided […]
Category: Patriarchy
Privately, Graham may have been a good man. Publicly, he was an atrocity.
June arrives, and so does the annual conservative grievance convocation. They already scheduled their Festival of Snowflakes for the 14th. Dear Leader’s birthday. A fitting occasion. So just like every June, the flags go up. The rainbow flags, not only the American ones, though they will tell you it is the American ones they are […]
“The ice is tilted,” we hockey fans say when one team is so dominant it feels as though they are skating downhill while their opponent claws uphill for oxygen. One end of the rink becomes a siege. The puck rarely leaves it. Momentum is obvious. When the White House elevates the U.S. men’s hockey team […]