Aram Zucker-Scharff

“A lot of us trusted Whedon and his characters and, yes, even his performative feminism. His work has plenty of male gaze and women in refrigerators and some narratively pointless rape scenes—it’s all right there, in hundreds of hours of television and film—but boy, it sure is a lot more comfortable to listen to a […]

“Now you’re probably wondering what to do with those flimsy pieces of cardboard and black polymer that were basically priceless just hours ago. “Fortunately, Astronomers Without Borders has offered to take them off your hands so that children will be able to use them in future eclipses. The organization says it will soon announce a […]

“‘By the time I left, almost 90 percent of our budget was to help people stay in their homes,’ Shaun Donovan told me. ‘So when you have a 15 percent cut to that budget, by definition you’re going to be throwing people out of their homes. You’re literally taking vouchers away from families, you’re literally […]

My drink is on fire (at William Barnacle Tavern)