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Celebrated author Kiese Laymon considers economic and intellectual class, white supremacy, and Black Southern art in this lyrical essay, exclusive to Scalawag.

I Fuckin Hate Jerry Seinfeld

‘Can I Just Vote for Her Instead of Biden?’: Inside Kamala’s Scramble to Win the Latino Vote

‘Unprecedented Times’ Is the New Normal

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

From Shia LaBeouf to JD Vance, it seems a number of exiled actors, influencers, and politicians, are converting to Catholicism.

For VF’s October issue, Kathryn Joyce gets under the hood of the Catholic right’s celebrity conversion industrial complex.

The Prince We Never Knew

With lusty rhymes and unorthodox samples, Cash Cobain has become a central figure of “sexy drill,” a more lascivious offshoot, and one that has tilted the sound of rap nationally.

Kamala’s successful convention has broken the media’s brain

Staten Island’s Politics of Resentment

‘The Blind Side’ Made Him Famous. But He Has a Different Story to Tell.

How the Democrats found a new brand at the DNC

All the Ways to Name Rain - Orion Magazine

some news that isn't new: violent white supremacists *still* aren't "lone wolves" 

Who Has a Bigger Serve Than Arthur Ashe?

A fine essay by Andrew Katzenstein in @nybooks on the playing of the great tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, looking in particular at his gorgeous composition Black Narcissus, "a delicate waltz in a minor key, evoking enigmatic beauty and repose."

Opinion | How Democrats snatched ‘freedom’ back from Trump and the Republicans     

Kamala Harris: A child of hippie Berkeley, blue-collar Oakland, or the American middle class?

This fantastic @lizweil piece on fire and California's future — and, by extension, about living in a planetary crisis — is this week's must-read story.

This is climate journalism that gets what time it is. Honored to be a part of it.

Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea a book by Darrin M. McMahon

Diddy seeks to have producer's lawsuit tossed, says it's full of 'blatant falsehoods'

US police use force on 300,000 people a year, with numbers rising since George Floyd: ‘relentless violence’

The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age | The Walrus

How to Fall in Love With Baseball

Why I Left the Network

What we can learn about success from A24's creative risks