Our New Venture

A month ago I told you we’d hired Nona Willis Aronowitz to develop and edit a new section of TPM that we’re debuting in early January. It will be a cutting and incisive look at contemporary American culture, from race and work to entertainment and sex and family. In many ways it’s our biggest new venture at TPM in almost a decade. Starting this week and for the rest of the month we’re previewing the new project with a series of articles like the one we published yesterday. It’s a report on a women who was drugged and raped at a nude gay bar in New Orleans and how that crime has put New Orleans unique transgressive, bohemian subculture at war with the gentrifying newcomers who were attracted to just that subculture but now may be snuffing it out. If you haven’t already, definitely read it. And let me know your reaction both to the piece and to our new project.