Ana Marie Cox
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Trump response to Jan. 6 committee referral shows why an indictment would help him
Trump response to Jan. 6 hearing and committee criminal referral to Justice Department and report shows why an indictment on insurrection would help him. → Read More
Opinion | Democrats Can Win if They Embrace the Politics of Fear
The right learned to use fear as a political weapon. Now Democrats must beat them at their own game. → Read More
Susan Collins' pro-Roe, pro-abortion stance was doomed by her Supreme Court votes
Leaked Roe v. Wade Supreme Court opinion may overturn abortion rights in America. Republican Susan Collins' votes for Kavanaugh and Gorsuch made that possible. → Read More
‘When Will I Know If It’s Time to Leave My Alcoholic Partner?’
I feared what might happen if I too kept shrinking myself in order to just keep things moving along, Ana Marie Cox writes. I was willing to give a lot to a relationship, but what could I give to anyone if I basically disappeared? → Read More
‘My Anger and Drinking Have Ruined Relationships. How Do I Live With Myself If I Can’t Fix Them?’
This week, Ana Marie Cox answers a question from a reader who fears their drinking (and anger) has ruined some relationships: How do you move forward if there is no way of repairing the damage done? For one, don’t focus on the repairing part. → Read More
‘I Feel Awkward Not Ordering Wine With My Mom Friends at Dinner’
Ana Marie Cox knows what it’s like to be sober when other people aren’t — the awkwardness, the social pressure, the guilt. In this week’s column, she advises a letter writer on how to cope with those feelings to maintain sobriety while socializing. → Read More
Ask Ana Marie Cox (Almost) Every Question You’ve Ever Had About Sobriety
The Cut’s recovery columnist Ana Marie Cox works through readers’ questions about drinking — and not drinking — every other week. Over the next 12 weeks, email your queries about sobriety to soberquestioning@nymag.com. → Read More
Texas Republicans love to punish Austin. Now the pandemic is doing it for them.
The state’s rules are making it harder for anyone to manage the delta variant surge. → Read More
Ana Marie Cox: Simone Biles withdraws from Olympics team final after vault miss, proving she's the GOAT
At Tokyo Olympics, why Simone Biles withdraws after vault miss proves the U.S. gymnast is the greatest of all time. → Read More
Having someone with alcoholism in the Cabinet reminds us that recovery is never over
As labor secretary, Marty Walsh will show what’s possible if you take it one day at a time. → Read More
Maybe Ted Cruz isn’t really ‘smart enough to know better’
And even if he is, maybe that doesn’t matter anymore → Read More
Trump freaked out over Ebola. Coronavirus doesn’t push the same buttons for him.
His response to the 2014 outbreak exemplified his paranoid style → Read More
Space the Nation: 'Good fiction is empathy propaganda'
A People’s Future of the United States contains 25 self-conscious riffs on Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” Instead of looking at the past through the perspective of marginalized communities, the authors take the ominous current political climate and imagine what *will* happen to these communities and — even more importantly — how these communities will → Read More
Space the Nation: Who wins the Rocinante primary?
There are television shows that engage directly with today’s politics — via Trump jabs or taking sides on hot-button debates — and then there are shows that are about politics, which includes chat programs like "Meet the Press" but also the science fiction space opera The Expanse. → Read More
Space the Nation: What Donald Trump owes to science fiction
How Trump exists in a world of science fiction, even if he has not imagination himself. → Read More
Space the Nation: Dissing utopia
People keep calling Ocasio-Cortez's ideas "utopian" like that's a bad thing. But who are the real dreamers? → Read More
New year, new Congress
And a continuing government shutdown. → Read More
Space the Nation: If it walks like a duck
There are many people who object to Donald Trump’s repeated invocation of “WITCH HUNT” when he feels particularly exasperated by the ongoing investigation into his campaign’s ties to the Russian government. → Read More
Space the Nation: Who plays the NPCs in real life?
An exploration of the alt-right's new favorite meme, positing their critics are really non-playable characters. → Read More
Space the Nation: Charlie Jane Anders says silliness is subversive
Those that feel upset by or locked out of our popular political narratives can turn to science fiction for strength, and for a reminder that the world doesn't have to make sense. → Read More