Avery Collins
Accidentally Hooked on a Gas Station Drug
It started with a tiny blue bottle next to the cash register at a 7-Eleven.The year was 2023.…
I Questioned Transgender Ideology. Now I’m Facing Prison in France.
Few debates today are as fraught as whether gender identity should override biological sex in law and public…
Undaunted Arts in D.C.
Donald Trump’s intensified, malicious assault on the arts in his second term should have surprised no one. Like…
Tom the Dancing Bug
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Black Voting Power Is Being Dismantled. Is It Too Late to Stop Its Erosion?
To understand the real impacts of Louisiana v. Callais’s greenlight of racial gerrymandering, we must first look to…
Next on the Docket: Dismantling Democracy
It takes a village to raze a constitutional democracy. Donald Trump and his enablers in the executive and…
Tom Morello Is Still Raging
By Alan LightTom Morello at Summerside Festival in Grenchen, Switzerland, 2024 (credit: Dario Demarco via Wikimedia Commons)“I didn’t…
We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on our Heroic Federal Judges
By Norm Eisen, Nancy Gertner, Richard Painter, and Matthew SeligmanThis week, I asked bipartisan experts on ethics and…
Caitlin Flanagan on the ‘Cornell 7’ and the Battle of the Sexes. Plus…
Welcome back to The Weekend Press! Today, Maddy Kearns has two drinks with the commonsense congresswoman who’s constantly…
Taylor Swift Got Her Happy Ending. It May Have Killed Her Music.
Last week, Taylor Swift released four brand-new songs—and the public immediately panned them. What happened to the world’s…
What the Dutch Empire Reveals About America Today
How do you fight a superpower you can’t afford to stop trading with? The Dutch faced that problem…
Where Does the Iran War Go Next?
On September 29, President Donald Trump and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), commanded by Major General Ahmad…
Evening Roundup, October 2: SCOTUS and ‘Culture Clash’
Special SCOTUS SpotlightMeredith Makes Her (Newsletter) Mark!Contrarians, it’s finally here — Meredith Blake’s Culture Clash Newsletter! Click on…
Caitlin Flanagan: What Was Jane Doe Looking For?
I don’t need to read one more text message or police report about what happened in the Chi…