Endless by Common Vote

Call in the National Guard on Berkeley protests

Crisis, coercion and coups in the fog of war

You might say that the coastal liberal elite that I am, I was completely unaware that alt-right hate-monger Milo Yiannopoulos was invited to speak…

The first terror attack of the Trump era was against Canadian Muslims

Psychometrics and the mainstreaming of Christofascism

For immigrant folk like me, the question of the Trump administration wasn’t when…

Boilerplate Tech CEO Statement on Refugee Executive Order

A brief guide to public relations, opportunism and posturing

Begin your statement with how alarmed you were by the executive order. It is necessary to create…

Scenes from Women’s March on Oakland

Hymn to The Goddess of Silicon

My hand grasps for it in habitual obeisance
Perhaps in my pocket with fingers stretched
Or clasped just over my lap but under a table
Entertaining a world of far more
Desire than this moment here.

How the listicle killed literature and why it’s not all your fault

The aporetics of contemporary writing

What explains our fascination with the expository memoir (sometimes in the list format) and what does it say about the state of…

Food is not a thing

How an autoimmune disorder took me off the roller coaster of self-loathing

Adderall Got My Friend Hooked on Meth

Now he’s a ghost.

What to Wear to Save the Planet?

The unbearable heaviness of indecision at Paris Climate Summit