Peter Moskowitz, The Outline

Peter Moskowitz

The Outline

New York, NY, United States

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Past:
  • The Outline
  • VICE
  • The Guardian
  • WIRED
  • The New Republic
  • Al Jazeera English
  • Gawker
  • Washington Post
  • Slate
  • The Verge

Past articles by Peter:

The ‘Nanette’ problem

Comedy is at its best when it helps audiences understand their relationship to trauma, not when it makes them feel comfortably woke. → Read More

Racism and the battle of free speech at Evergreen State College

The school is a case study in our current debate about free speech. Just not in the way you’ve been told. → Read More

Protest fatigue syndrome

What to do when activism burns you out. → Read More

Evict the rich

The one neat trick to solving the housing crisis: give the things owned by the rich to the poor. → Read More

Three Years After Ferguson, One Protester Still Faces the Aftermath

Joshua Williams was made an example of by a St. Louis County judge. Two years into his prison sentence, he said his activist history has led guards to make his life hell. → Read More

For Older HIV-Positive People, Social Support Can Save Lives

In the GMHC's Buddy Program, the isolation and depression many feel while aging with HIV has a simple cure: a friend. → Read More

Who will speak for the geese?

New York City has made a habit, and a business, of massacring geese. One Brooklyn man is trying to save them. → Read More

Fidget Cubes Won't Solve the American Recess Crisis

The wildly popular toys may help kids focus, but they're masking the root causes of childhood attention deficit disorder. → Read More

LGBTQ Media Is Less White Than Ever, but It's Still Not Enough

The relaunch of a storied gay French magazine brings rising awareness of gay media's problematic past. But tides may not be changing fast enough. → Read More

LGBTQ Media Is Less White Than Ever, but It's Still Not Enough

The relaunch of a storied gay French magazine brings rising awareness of gay media's problematic past. But tides may not be changing fast enough. → Read More

Will New York get a Brexit boost to cancel out feared 'Trump slump'?

While European cities led by Paris and Frankfurt wage campaigns for London’s financial business, some experts predict New York could benefit most of all from the fallout of Brexit on the UK capital → Read More

The Chief Historian of the AIDS Crisis Explains How to Survive a Trump Administration

David France, author of How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, recounts lessons from the crisis and tells us how to prepare for Trump. → Read More

Documenting the Secret Lives of India's LGBTQ Youth

In the new book 'Delhi: Communities of Belonging,' photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh explore and celebrate queer culture in India, including the gay men who were forced to get married and have children, yet still cruise in secrecy. → Read More

How LGBTQ Prisoners Use Art to Survive Incarceration

At an exhibit of works by LGBTQ prisoners opening tonight called On the Inside, the stories of a twice-marginalized population are put front and center. → Read More

How LGBTQ Prisoners Use Art to Survive Incarceration

At an exhibit of works by LGBTQ prisoners opening tonight called On the Inside, the stories of a twice-marginalized population are put front and center. → Read More

How LGBTQ Prisoners Use Art to Survive Incarceration

At an exhibit of works by LGBTQ prisoners opening tonight called On the Inside, the stories of a twice-marginalized population are put front and center. → Read More

The Thin Line Between 'Bad Drugs' and Medicine

Medical anthropologist Danya Glabau is teaching a class in how the discourse around drugs has changed. → Read More

America’s Search for Happiness Is Driving Us Crazy

A new book by journalist Ruth Whippman investigates the American "happiness industrial complex" and our growing obsession with contentment. → Read More

The Crazy, Failed Idea of Creating a Jewish State in Russia

Birobidzhan was a small region near the Chinese border in Russian that was established as the world's first autonomous Jewish region in the early 1930s. It didn't last long. Author Masha Gessen discusses the strange history of the would-be territory. → Read More

The Crazy, Failed Idea of Creating a Jewish State in Russia

Birobidzhan was a small region near the Chinese border in Russian that was established as the world's first autonomous Jewish region in the early 1930s. It didn't last long. Author Masha Gessen discusses the strange history of the would-be territory. → Read More