Editor's Notes: They Hate Us For Our Freedoms
The existence and idea of freedom and cosmopolitan diversity is an existential threat to authoritarians big and small.
115 articles
For Back-to-School, It's Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (Half the Answer #99, with Caitlin Gilbert)
Vaccination rates are falling across the country.
Midterm Madness: Political Ads from Michigan to Texas (Half the Answer #98, with Jonathan M. Katz)
Floating in a hideous soup of extremism, slander, bad art, and dirty dealings.
Was Cultural Marxism Responsible for the Beatles? (Half the Answer #97, with A. J. A. Woods)
Why does the right keep talking about a handful of critical theorists from the 1960s?
Lindsey Graham: "Corporal," Senator, Hypocrite (Half the Answer #96, with Maya Rupert)
The life and works of the man who occupied the most racist seat in American history.
Ken Paxton and the Potential Boogaloo Congressman (Half the Answer #95, with Steven Monacelli)
Ken Paxton isn't the only Looney Toon running for a position in the United States Congress this November.
The Mancunian Candidate and the End of Keir Starmer (Half the Answer #94, with Hunter CG)
Exactly what is going on in England? Why is the Labour Party trying to behave like the Tories—or worse?
Graham Platner: Walking Red Flag (Half the Answer #93, with Marisa Kabas)
Graham Platner is a parade of red flags stuffed into a pair of yellow rubber waders, and yet so many
Cattle Cars in the Sky (Half the Answer #92, with Gillian Brockell)
ICE flights are still happening and they are still horrifying. Gillian Brockell brings us updates on some of the major
America's 250th Birthday Party and the Green Reflecting Pool (Half the Answer #91, with Amanda Moore)
Why won't Gregory Bovino stay gone? Why can't Trump keep his pool clean? And how many
Jared Kushner and Albania's Flamingo Revolution (Half the Answer #90, with Hunter CG)
Why is Albania having anti-Jared Kushner protests? What did he do to them? And what on Earth is going
The Legalization of Sports Gambling in America (Half the Answer #89, with Danny Funt)
How did sports betting burst onto the scene so violently in the last half-decade? Danny Funt, author of Everybody