Tom Scocca
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Past articles by Tom:
Unfortunately, It’s Time to Let Trump Tweet Again
Our situation is monstrous. We need to see and hear the monster. → Read More
What I’ll Miss About Mike Krzyzewski
Goodbye to the sorest of sore losers. → Read More
The argument over closing schools is still stuck in 2020
A brief, reluctant pause to deal with the chaos of omicron simply isn’t the same as a long-term shutdown. → Read More
They Found a New Bird!
A director’s cut of this Q&A appears in Indignity, a newsletter by Tom Scocca. On October 10, 2000, while guiding an ecological tour group along the edge of Manu National Park in Peru, the naturalist Daniel Lane, a research associate with the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences, saw something he was “entirely unprepared for”: a strikingly bright yellow bird with a black… → Read More
Sha’Carri Richardson Should Run the Olympic 100 Meters on Zoom
In front of a few thousand screaming, vaccinated American fans. → Read More
The Horror of Surfside
Just as Americans began returning to life in public again, disaster struck the people of Champlain Towers South at home. → Read More
Thanks, but I’m Going to Keep My Mask On Outdoors
There is nothing liberating about the idea of constantly taking my mask off and putting it on again. → Read More
The Mob Is Still Occupying the Capitol
The GOP acquits its president. → Read More
Stop Defacing Quotes With Brackets!
Yes, I’m talking to . → Read More
We Had No Idea How Much Suffering We Could Ignore
The Trump years tested America’s capacity for indifference, and America failed. → Read More
This Was the Coup
The peaceful transition of power has failed. → Read More
The Exterior of Barack Obama’s New Book, Reviewed
If only the whole 21st century could have been built so sturdily. → Read More
Goodbye, Jared
Time for a special adviser to learn just how special he is on his own. → Read More
Nobody Is Listening to Donald Trump
The president struggles with the realization he's not the star of the election show. → Read More
Trump Can’t Win the Vote
Will he retake the presidency anyway? → Read More
Amy Coney Barrett Is as Cynical as Trump
Who cares if she is nice to her colleagues? → Read More
Here’s a Theory: Maybe Trump Wasn’t Getting Tested for COVID At All
Maybe they won't say when his last negative result was because there wasn't one. → Read More
Crowd Cheers as the President Gloats About This One Time the Cops Shot a Reporter With a Rubber Bullet for No Reason
No matter that his description of events wasn't even true. → Read More
There Are No Principles
Why are Democrats fighting for Mitch McConnell’s bogus 2016 rule? → Read More
The NBA Is the Opposition Party
It took basketball players to find a political action that fits the scale and urgency of the crisis. → Read More