Month: August 2018

Hisham Matar’s writing is like finely spun silk: so fragile that it’s breathtaking to follow his words as they connect one to the next, laying bare the vulnerabilities of the human heart; so powerful that its tensile...

As a tool to obstruct justice, the presidential pardon power is highly overrated. The main advantage a president (or anyone else) has when he’s been involved in a criminal conspiracy is that the best witnesses against him...

They’re burying Swisher today. After a long and remarkable life, John “Swisher” Mitchell died last week at the age of 91 in his hometown of Waterville, ME. Before his decades-long stint as the yin to legendary...

It was easily the strangest and most appealing labor-management dispute of the year. In the summer of 2014, hundreds of Market Basket employees went on strike, thousands walked daily picket lines, and millions of customers...

Welcome back, music lovers. This week is one devoted to obscuroid artists from roughly the 1980s who seemed like they should have had a hit single or two, but never quite managed. Perhaps they were too acquired of a taste. I am...