American Consequences

Alice Lloyd

July 2019

What I Like About U.(S.A.)

Even #Resistance feels patriotic sometimes, doesn’t it? By Alice Lloyd It’s not necessarily a rational feeling, the patriotic stir. It has too many triggers to count, the strongest of which catches us unawares and doesn’t make much reasonable...

April 2019

Red Scare

A majority of millennials favor socialism – how did this happen? By Alice Lloyd It was September 2016, and Hillary Clinton had a youth problem. In a conference room at Democratic National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill, about a third of the...

March 2019

Doggone It

You Can’t Teach an Old Drug-Sniffing Dog New Laws By Alice Lloyd There’s no easy way to tell a drug-sniffing dog he’s fired. Amid the quickening march of marijuana legalization at the state and – hey, who knows – maybe soon even federal...

February 2019

The Devil Drives Tesla

There’s no denying it now: Elon Musk is not the Messiah. But how much does it really matter? By Alice Lloyd Remember, Elon Musk’s defenders keep telling me, “he’s only human.” The reminder has become a common refrain these past nine months among...