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Why Computers Alone Can't Eliminate Corruption in Redistricting
Choosing an algorithm that defines the boundaries is, in itself, a political decision that can never be value-neutral
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Privatized Prisons: A Human Marketplace
Having a monetary value tied to human incarceration and justice creates a deeply perverse incentive that should not exist in the world of criminal justice
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Demented Agitprop: The Myth and Madness of Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theories
Kindle version | WebsiteA look behind the groups that believe bike lanes and smart growth are here to steal our land and send us all to the gulag
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The Anti-Environmentalist Roots of the Agenda 21 Conspiracy Theory
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Small Towns and the Private Prison Bubble
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Let Us Now Praise Ugly Buildings
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For Once-Obscure Music, a Golden Age of Reissues
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How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime
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All Hail Anonymity
Real-name policies won't end the introvert's experience of the Internet, but it might end the Internet's experience of introverts.
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The Folly of Bourgeois Sustainable Food
Is it possible for gluttony, purity, and morality to coexist with affordability? Or is this utopian vision a myth?
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There is Power in an IT Union
There is power in a union for the information technology industry, one of The Atlantic's own developers argues, even though programmers often resist collective organizing
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Welcome to Fabulous Roswell: The Rise of Postmodern Tourism
What Chernobyl, Las Vegas, and a Santa Claus theme park in Finland tell us about the value and absurdity of travel
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In an iTunes Age, the Case for Vinyl
Downtempo Pop: When Good Music Gets a Bad Name
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Miami Terror Machine: Who Is Francisco Chávez Abarca?
He admits to planting bombs in hotels and colluding with others on the bombing of Cubana Flight 455, but maybe he's just a patsy in a game of cloak and dagger and disinformation to tarnish the good name of admitted terrorist Posada Carriles?
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BrandStrong
After resigning in disgrace from the charity he helped found and losing his sponsorship with Nike, Lance Armstrong now must cope with the leak of his new memoir—excerpted here.
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Our Future National Pastime
Predictions for the baseball season ahead from someone who hasn’t paid attention to sports statistics since the 1992 Orioles.
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Les Bêtes Fromages
America adores its clichés about France—skinny women, good sex, and “surrender monkeys.” Well, it’s about time we respected France’s history of conquering and oppressing the world.
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The Ghost in the Machine Is a Jerk
Everyone has computer problems—only a chosen few are driven insane by them. A defense of daily paranoia.
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Just Criminalize It
California looks to legalize pot in November—and that, in many ways, would be a crime. An argument against political causes involving dreadlocked alien masks.
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Cuban Kremlinology
Tourism has saved the island's economy, but the combination of tourism and socialism makes for an odd mix.
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How to Become a Playwright
The Non-Expert attempts to help a young thespian realize his misinformed dreams.
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The Savior of Newspaperdom
Unless the newspaper honchos invent some brilliant ideas, the broadsheet is dead. A last-ditch brainstorm.
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The Power of the Three
This week we reveal the secrets of the mighty triumvirate that rules the universe. But you didn’t hear about it here.
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The Transient, Digital Fetish (Toronto Star version)
The Transient, Digital Fetish (Original)
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The Week After
Barack Obama’s inauguration next week will be full of significant, historical events. But what about the seven days to follow?
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Programming in English, or Translate :: ParseLib :: English
Computer code may not be gobbledygook, but that doesn’t make it art. A survey of the field of programming-cum-poetry to find the ghost (of Hamlet’s father) in the machine.
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Being Christopher Hitchens
Living as a once-Trotskyist megaforce, now war-toting superstar can take its toll. Particularly when your personality subdivides into pro wrestlers.
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The Intramural Sports of Kings
The signup sheet in the break room wants you and your co-workers to meet at the park on Saturday for a game of softball. For some it may just be fun, but for others it’ll be pure competition.
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The Mnemonics of Mnailguns
‘Tis the season for home renovation, but unless you have a degree (or years experience) in carpentry, a cheat-sheet is required for survival.
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Washington City Paper - 2009 Fringe & Purge
TMN Mp3 Digest
Projects
Plays
- The Apocalyptic Optimist was written and produced as part of the eXtreme eXchange’s political theatre shows, November 1st and 2nd, 2008 at the Roundhouse Theatre in Silver Spring.
- Tempting Doctor No at the Politically Fringealicious edition, July 27th, 2007, at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre
- A Political Menagerie at the Roundhouse in Silver Spring September, 2006, with a remount at the H Street Playhouse in 2008
- An Immodest Proposal at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 2007
- The Misanthrope, a one-man show, was written and performed for the 2006 Fringe Festival at the Red & the Black
- Realty and Personalty was written and performed for the Capital Fringe Festival in 2006.