COURTESY OF THE WHITE HOUSE PHOTO OFFICE Like a pro ball player or a touring musician, Pete Souza spent eight years at one of those jobs that doesn’t really seem like work from the outside. As the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Barack Obama, Souza had a front-row seat to a historic presidency. […]
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Beth Pickens on Maintaining and Protecting Your Art in the Age of Trump
Amos Mac In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Los Angeles-based arts consultant Beth Pickens found her clientele in a quagmire. Her clients were saying things like, “Oh, I’ve got to run for public office now. I should go to law school. My art has to change.” In the chaotic weeks that followed, Pickens […]
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The Arrest of the Golden State Killer Suspect and How Michelle McNamara Turned Personal Trauma into a Political Issue
Michelle McNamara Photo by John Shearer / Getty Images After more than four decades spent searching for the serial rapist and murderer known as the Golden State Killer, at a press conference this morning, authorities in Sacramento announced that they’d (finally) arrested a suspect: Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, an ex-cop who is believed to have […]
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The Anti-Trump Book Club: Russian Roulette
Twelve Books Russian Roulette is a compelling and deftly written compilation of what we already know about the Trump-Russia affair. Outside of a few gems, the book—written by veteran investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn—contains many of the names and vignettes any hardcore viewer of MSNBC will already be familiar with. Still, it is […]
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The Anti-Trump Book Club: Russian Roulette
Isikoff and Corn’s Book Compiles What We Know About the Trump-Russia Affair
Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s book compiles what we know about the Trump-Russia affair.
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Beth Pickens on Art as Self-Care
Your Art Will Save Your Life Is a Guide Book on Maintaining and Protecting Your Art in the Age of Trump
A guide book on how to maintain and protect your art in the age of Trump.
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Pete Souza Reminisces About “What We Had”
The Presidential Photographer on the Visual and Political Legacy of the Obama Administration
The presidential photographer on the visual and political legacy of the Obama Administration.
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Lindy West’s Shrill Is Coming to Hulu
Once upon a time, Lindy West was the film critic for our sister paper in Seattle, The Stranger, and we often took the opportunity to run her hilarious, smart writing in the Mercury, too. Now she’s a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and the author of an excellent memoir, Shrill (read the […]
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The Leafly Guide to Cannabis Is Dope
Finally, a Pot Primer Worth Recommending
Finally, a pot primer worth recommending.
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Let’s Get Stoned with Bilbo and Chewbacca!
Everything You Need to Know About Pipe-Weed, Death Sticks, and Other Made-Up Drugs
Everything you need to know about pipe-weed, death sticks, and other made-up drugs.
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Sloane Crosley’s Kinetic Intelligence
The Look Alive Out There Author on Egg-Freezing, Porny Uncles, and Queen Joan Didion
The Look Alive Out There author on egg-freezing, porny uncles, and Queen Joan Didion.
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Red Clocks: Speculative Lit at Its Finest
AUTHOR PHOTO BY SOPHIA SHALMIYEV Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks envisions a dystopian future that could happen tomorrow: A personhood law grants citizenship rights to fetuses, outlaws abortion, and bans in-vitro fertilization. Single adults will soon be banned from adoption and intrauterine insemination (IUI). Women seeking abortions in Canada are stopped at the border’s “Pink Wall.” […]