The Drift is a magazine of culture and politics.
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In the vacuum of feminism
During the whole Graham Platner meltdown last week, I really missed the feminist internet. I took it for granted during the 2010s: the thriving ecosystem of independent feminist publications, some complementary corporate verticals, and a no...
The Passion of Lionel Messi
Even if most of what you know about the World Cup is that it’s currently happening, you might also know that Lionel Messi is involved. The diminutive Argentine is everywhere. At this point, Messi is the undisputed soccer GOAT — or, in fútbo...
Think VAR is ruining the World Cup? Your workplace is next
Replay technology has long served up fodder for intense arguments among sports fans, but the hyper-sophisticated system FIFA has deployed at this year’s World Cup has generated a series of controversies that threaten to overshadow what huma...
More atom bomb than silver bullet
In October 2022, when our editorial team first started talking about commissioning a piece on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), the Atlanta rapper Young Thug had been in custody for five months. He had just been...
The Drift on America
“We must be doing something right to last two hundred years,” a country singer croons in Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975) on the occasion of the United States’s then-upcoming bicentennial. Fifty years later, this logic is more questionable...
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