The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Roxane Gay
The idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman, is ongoing and pervasive.
A Tetw reading list
A collection of the best political reporting and journalis, covering everything from the political process, the different ends of the political spectrum, femenism, demographics, immigration, freedom, and a whole lot more.
by Paul Graham
Politics, like religion, is a topic with no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.
by Brendan Kiley
Figuring out how to run a sustainable anarchist household (that values time spent washing the dishes and time spent making money as a computer programmer equally) isn’t as headline-grabbing as a downtown smashup.
by Tim Dickinson
The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent.
by Matt Taibbi
The federal rescue of Wall Street didn’t fix the economy – it created a permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come…
by Tony Judt
I prefer the edge: the place where countries, communities, allegiances, affinities, and roots bump uncomfortably up against one another—where cosmopolitanism is not so much an identity as the normal condition of life.
by Tony Judt
The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears “natural” today dates from the 1980s: the obsession with wealth creation, the cult of privatization and the private sector, the growing disparities of rich and poor.
by Christopher Glazek
The statistics touting the country’s crime-reduction miracle, when juxtaposed with those documenting the quantity of rape and assault that takes place each year within the correctional system, are exposed as not merely a lie, or even a damn lie—but as the single most shameful lie in American life.
