Matthew Yglesias's Blog, page 117

It’s My Turn to Give the Sex Talk… to My Mother

I need to do this before her wedding.

You’ve Been Scapegoated–Now What?

Talking scapegoat recovery and enby exhaustion with guest Danielle Moodie.

One of the Biggest Red Flags of Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

He wants to “review” the company’s anti-trans harassment policy. There’s a worrying history here.

The Fashionable Police Strategy That Is Just Mass Incarceration By Another Name

Focused deterrence is all the rage from Dallas to Ohio to Boston. It does not live up to its violence reduction promise.

The “Parental Rights” Lie at the Heart of GOP Efforts to Target LGBTQ Youth

As is so often the case in American politics, this is less a fight over the meaning of a particular right and more a fight over whose rights matter.

Help! My Sister Wants to Honor Me by Naming Her Kid After Me… Absolutely Not.

Should I just let it go?

How the Absurd Conspiracy Theory that the Attack on Paul Pelosi Was a Lover’s Quarrel Took Over the Right

Thank Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump Jr.

The “Free-Thinking” Kyrie Irving Is Sharing the Same Old Anti-Semitic Ideas

What should the Nets and the NBA do about it?

The Supreme Court Has No Reason to End Affirmative Action. They’re Doing It Anyway.

(Siri, set the timer for racial harmony.)

He Wasn’t Like the Other New England “Witches.” His Story Explains a Lot.

The little-told tale of the 1651 trial of Hugh and Mary Parsons.