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N.E.R.D.’s New Wave |

Last year, I spent some time browsing through post-punk and New Wave albums from the late nineteen-seventies and early nineteen-eighties. I heard a jagged, wobbly combination of punk, pop, funk, disco, and sometimes reggae, pioneered by kids too frail for…

How Carob Traumatized a Generation |

A wry disgruntlement will forever unite those of us who were children during the height of the nineteen-seventies natural-foods movement. It was a time that we recall not for its principles—yes to organics, no to preservatives—but for its endless assaults…

California Makes Marijuana a Wellness Industry |

By the time recreational marijuana usage became legal in California, on New Year’s Day, the government’s official permission seemed, for many Californians, like a belated, nearly irrelevant formality. Twenty-two years of ready access to medical marijuana had made casual consumption—a…

Donald Trump Suffocates Hope for a Palestinian State

Sitting in a chair across from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting last September, President Donald Trump was sober in his comments. The dispute between Israel and the Palestinians had gone…