For an ideology that allegedly died in disgrace, communism’s had a fantastic second act. Not a comeback exactly. More like a wardrobe change, a media Continue Reading
satire/humor
NY Governor Wonders Why “Come Back So We Can Tax You!” Campaign is Failing
By Hugh Jashol, for Article 107 News* ALBANY, NY — In a bold new approach to economic policy, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has unveiled what Continue Reading
The Costume Shop for Moral Outrage
If you want to understand modern politics, stop looking at policy and start looking at costumes. Everyone is auditioning for the role of Continue Reading
Europe Can’t Keep Calling Dad
Europe has spent years pretending that dependency is a sophisticated moral posture. It isn’t. It’s dependency. Put a silk scarf on it, seat it on a Continue Reading
The Broken Chair Club
There’s a giant broken chair sitting outside the United Nations in Geneva, and for once public art accidentally told the truth. One leg blown off, Continue Reading
The AI Alibi
There is no technology more perfectly suited to our age than artificial intelligence, because there is no age more desperate to avoid Continue Reading
The Grievance Franchise
America has developed a thriving luxury market in moral melodrama, and its flagship product is the explanation that explains everything while Continue Reading
The Soft Bigotry of No Identification
There are few spectacles in American life more obscene than watching a well-moisturized professional moralist explain that requiring identification to Continue Reading
The Sanctimony Pageant in Black Tie
Every year the Oscars arrive like a scented candle in a power outage, expensive, performative, and somehow making everything worse. It is the one Continue Reading
The Great American Pill Parade Where Your TV Sells You Sickness and Immunity
Oh, darling readers, gather ’round the glowing idiot box that is your television, because Tammy Pondsmith is here to dissect the grotesque carnival of Continue Reading
The House of Hush Money
There is nothing, and I mean nothing, more spiritually moving than watching 357 members of Congress sprint together to bury sexual misconduct Continue Reading
The Alliance of Cowards
There is nothing quite as moving as the modern Western alliance in action, if by “in action” you mean standing in a tasteful semicircle, issuing Continue Reading