The Outline
Eoin Higgins
Evergreen State campus police finally found an excuse to get some AR-15s
After a decade of trying, police at the overwhelmingly liberal Olympia, WA college used a culture-war controversy to arm themselves with assault rifles. But do semiautomatic weapons make a campus safer?
The worst possible 2020 candidates
F*ck, marry, kill, vote.
The one thing that drives me nuts about ‘The Sopranos’
The show is nearly perfect. Except for one thing.
The biggest conspiracies in American history (that also happen to be true)
Seven truly disturbing moments in which the tin-foil hat was actually a good idea.
By Eoin Higgins
The year in far-right batshittery
They came, they saw, they melted down.
Marc Andreesen’s Twitter faves sure got weird
Is he a lurking member of the intellectual dark web?
Meet the most insidious #Resistance grifters
Oh, and buy their books!
The 19 most powerful people you meet in hell
The masters of our universe are a uniform group of warmongers and empire apologists.
Ethics in storm journalism
When reporters fail to show compassion, victims of natural disasters suffer more.
Trump’s fake, cynical culture war
The president likes to target minorities for his political gain, but is it working?
You can feel bad about John McCain’s cancer and still hate his legacy
The senator’s record should not be glossed over.
