In the time of COVID, we are all married to each other. But some of our spouses are sociopaths.
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
Alex Sayf Cummings is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University, whose work deals with technology, law, public policy, and the political culture of the modern United States. Alex's writing has appeared in Salon, the Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, Al Jazeera, and Southern Cultures, among other publications, and the book Democracy of Sound was published by Oxford University Press in 2013 (paperback, 2017). Alex can be followed on Twitter at @akbarjenkins.
Alex loses her mind while doing a core strength ritual.
Our people are troubled, but they wrote a lot of good shit.
An eviction, a SCOTUS vacancy, and a death in the family. How do we keep our feet on the ground to do what has to be done?
Like discovering free verse, punk rock, or Prince, Guided by Voices offered the awesome realization that you could literally do whatever the fuck you want and it might actually be good.
After the Lost Weekend of Spring 2020, American teachers, students, and parents look ahead to a period of prolonged and agonizing uncertainty.
In a time of great pain and great courage, we miss those who we lost too soon, and everyone else too.
What is it like to see your city bombed out, like London during the Blitz, yet more or less intact?
