In the vast content wilderness that is Medium, nobody pulls off an arbitrary ranking quite like the fine folks at LEVEL. From the Rocky movies to nacho toppings to the most annoying LinkedIn offenders—if you can think of it, they can rank it. Given that we’re all stuck inside (at…

What I saw made me question everything, including myself — The other night, I walked by a crowded bar. Inside, I saw dozens of people clustered together without masks, laughing and drinking. In an adjoining room, a DJ played ’80s classics to a throng of writhing and jerking bodies. Six weeks ago, before I took up temporary residence in the…

We need to acknowledge the Covid-relief bill for what it is: a $1.9 trillion achievement, the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades. As James Surowiecki explains on GEN, the bill’s hefty price tag is perfectly suited to our current moment — one where the unemployment rate is down…

That’s how Alana Casanova-Burgess describes the new podcast La Brega, a limited-run series for WNYC. In a conversation with GEN’s Andrea González-Ramírez, Casanova-Burgess discusses the frustrations of having to constantly explain Puerto Rican issues for a non-boricua audience, and says her show is specifically geared toward Puerto Rican listeners. “Even if you’re Puerto Rican, you’re going to learn something here!” Casanova-Burgess says. “Or maybe the way I should put that is, especially if you’re Puerto Rican, you’re going to learn something here.”

Kolby LaMarche was a star in the making, but he could no longer support a party pushing the politics of division — Kolby LaMarche is in his first year at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where he’s studying communications and law. He enjoys food, hiking, and playing with his cat — and until last week, he was the chair of the Burlington Republican Party. LaMarche was elected to his role in January…

Capitol Terrorists Exposers has been quietly supplying information to a number of major news outlets — Over the past few days, a number of outlets, including the New York Times and the New Yorker, have published bombshell investigations identifying rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 as members of far-right factions, military veterans, and in some cases, former security detail for Trump ally Roger…

Kurt Andersen, author and co-founder of Spy magazine, displayed an eerie knack for political prophecy over the course of his career. …

Organized labor remains divided over the transition to clean energy, though there’s reason to be optimistic — In his first seven days in office, President Joe Biden has made clear that climate change is central to his administration’s agenda. …

Some acts were criminal, others impeachable. But it’s important to remember the little things. — Last June, my editors tasked me with an interesting, if arduous, assignment — compile a weekly record of the graft and double-dealing of the Trump administration. The dishonesty had started on day one, so we were admittedly late to the game. (But GEN began in 2019, so cut us some…