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“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…l is eventually going to have more of it. If he can pass money on to his family, one family will become much richer than the other. This is the nature of capitalism, unfortunately. The mechanism on the other extreme is the propensity for people, when lacking incentive, to avoid doing anything at all. Incentivization is important. The extreme example is collectivization in communist countries. If you collectivize farms, everybody starves because no…

Mitt, the Marriotts, and Porn

By Joanna Brooks

…and drawer in Marriott hotel rooms, courtesy of the mega-Mormon Marriott family.) The hotel chain says that the decision is economic: in-room porn profits have tanked because the porn industry has moved on-line. But it’s being reported that the move is actually an effort to protect Romney against another round of flak from socially conservative and evangelical voters in Iowa, where the Marriott-porn issue flared up for a brief moment in July 2…

Departure of the Queen

By Amina Wadud

…so removed from the hustle and bustle of the cities and even from my own family that makes me feel a bit melancholy. I should probably catch ride outside the gates of the estate where I can have bars for my cell phone and get in touch with them later today. Before the shaykh arrives, I continue with my Qur’an reading. I don’t use the tiny mp3 player anymore because this last juz’ includes most of the Qur’an that I have memorized myself, and this i…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…t it needs. Walter: Which comes to its pinnacle in the gay presence in the military, because the military cannot tolerate non-conformity, and probably the gender question is perhaps the most radical question of otherness that we can imagine. Dan: The most fundamental. So we find hope in those new identities conferred upon us in the eucharist. How do you find hope in this kind of dire situation that we’re in these days? Walter: [laughing] Well, I t…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…all your representatives now, and again in January, and every time the incoming administration tries to trample the progress we’ve made over the past eight years. Take to the streets for those who cannot, and, perhaps most crucially, talk to the white people and Trump supporters in your life about why they voted for him, and what they hope will come of his election. Then point out the evidence—that’s piling up already—suggesting they’ve been duped…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…ts at the same time. This incident demonstrates that the crudeness of Islamic extremism is infidelity to seventh-century (i.e., original) Islam, a profound and ridiculous inversion of how Islam’s earliest and most authoritative interpreters understood the faith. I’m seriously unnerved by the convergences between Islamophobia and the Khawarij, both of whom assume texts have singular, fixed meanings (which may be the reason why both have found scho…

A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…ation, “Window Seat,” with all of its concerns, is sacred. Shot without permits, permission, a script or outside direction, at a national landmark reserved for our beloved fallen President, Badu creatively mixes her blood narrative with his, thus disrupting all sorts of “party” lines. To be sure, Badu is intentional in every way. The fact that this is Holy Week, a week that commemorates the week leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion, should not go unno…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…ng, he doesn’t much care what happens to him along the way. That put me in mind of this upcoming Sunday’s gospel text. Jesus has his face “set on Jerusalem,” meaning he’s going to bring his message of forgiveness, healing, and liberation right into the heart of the power structure in his nation. When he’s ready to go, he’s ready to go. He tells his followers not to waste time fighting with the Samaritans who aren’t interested in his mission. Don’t…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…ous activism colleagues, he contended, do not understand massive socioeconomic changes over the past several decades. “You’re talking about people who are coming out of college with $80K of debt and are getting $20k a year jobs,” he said. “The underclass is under 40.” As to whether the Occupy protests will succeed, Merritt seemed to think it would depend on the right mix of aspiration, inspiration, and results. “I’m a hardcore realist. And I end u…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…lso burned to the ground. After last night’s murders, a YouTube user named Michael Adams has uploaded an undated video of Pinckney giving a floor speech in the South Carolina legislature about the murder of Walter Scott, who was gunned down by a police officer in North Charleston on April 4, just one day after the suspected Emanuel shooter, Dylann Roof, reportedly received a gun as a 21st birthday gift from his father. Pinckney was speaking in sup…