Jay Caspian Kang

Everyone, including me, has a podcast now—so it’s hard to begrudge Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, for indulging his God-given right to produce audio content. “This Is Gavin Newsom” is five episodes into its run and, outside of a […]

Sometimes things are straightforward: the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate who was involved in the pro-Palestine protests on the school’s campus, is an affront to freedom of speech. Regardless of what you think about Israel, Palestine, or the

In gaming, a metric called “ping” measures the time it takes for information to travel from your console to the network and back again. If you’re playing online soccer and you press the button that makes your striker shoot, the

This past Tuesday, the seemingly indefatigable political strategist James Carville published an op-ed in the Times titled “The Best Thing Democrats Can Do in This Moment.” His prescription is as follows: “With no clear leader to voice our opposition and

There’s a strange familiarity that many Bay Area residents start to build up with their homeless neighbors. If you have a routine or a daily commute, you walk by the same people on the same corners or benches, and as

In the spirit of full disclosure, I have met Stephen A. Smith, although I doubt that he remembers it. Back in 2011, I was working for ESPN, helping to start a Web site called Grantland. Our offices were in L.A.

Someone needs to catch some blame here, but, when you lose this big, it’s hard to find the obvious culprit. For Kamala Harris’s campaign, the suspects will likely start with Harris herself, who, after an energetic start under impossible conditions,

In four days, the coin will land, and half of the country will either exhale with relief or shudder in terror. I have no predictions for what will happen, nor do I have much of an idea about what will

What is wrong with young men? In recent weeks, many liberal outlets have been puzzling over polling results, some of which show that men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are leaving the Democratic Party. These stories, many of

Journalists and umpires share a lot in common. The benefits of both jobs, at least on an armchair-psychology level, involve a mix of duty and narcissism—someone has to thanklessly call balls and strikes, someone needs to go to a city-hall