The Outline

Vincent Bevins

Power Jan 29

Sure, whataboutism seems bad, but have you considered other bad things?

The best defense against charges of hypocrisy is to simply not be hypocritical in the first place.

Culture Dec 30

This decade is freaking canceled

Grappling with new tools in a very unequal world.

Culture Aug 30

You cannot escape jet lag, only embrace it

Learn to roll with the inevitable consequences, and the ways we will fail to adjust. You’re getting on a roller coaster, except this one wasn’t planned by anyone.

Power Feb 26

I went to the Olympics and all I got was this tentative sense of hope

For two weeks, the Korean peninsula seemed to be unified.

Culture Feb 15

Meet Howard, supreme leader of North Korea

The true story of a Kim Jong-un impersonator at the Korea-Japan Olympic hockey game.

Culture Dec 18

Productivity is dangerous

You know who else was productive?

Culture Sep 20

The correct way to be a cannibal

Eat a rich or powerful person.

Culture Jun 23

Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter is an irony-Instagram star

Sara Duterte, the mayor of Davao City, likes to post pictures of memes and guns.