The Dictionary Hasn’t Caught Up With the Climate Crisis The Dictionary Hasn’t Caught Up With the Climate Crisis
Philosopher Glenn Albrecht is creating a whole new lexicon to match our mutating relationship with nature.
Mar 19, 2020 / Ben Goldfarb
Social Distancing Can’t Stop Solidarity Social Distancing Can’t Stop Solidarity
We can pull through only if we all work together.
Mar 18, 2020 / D.D. Guttenplan
Kelly Reichardt’s Anti-Capitalist Vision of Frontier America Kelly Reichardt’s Anti-Capitalist Vision of Frontier America
Her latest film, First Cow, challenges the myths of Americana by telling the stories of peripheral, ordinary figures.
Mar 18, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Phoebe Chen
Immigrant Song Immigrant Song
Bitter Mother Blue, dead, rush of mothers, conceal your island, little star. Trains, hands, note on a thread, Poland’s dish of salt. They said, The orphanlands of America promise y…
Mar 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Dana Levin
The Excavation The Excavation
My 8-yr-old daughter is teaching me how to live with myself after 34yrs in this body I can finally split myself in two & marvel that now I pass the Bechdel test. What I’ve let…
Mar 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jenn Givhan
Mike Pence as Chief of the Coronavirus Task Force Mike Pence as Chief of the Coronavirus Task Force
The president believed that it made sense To put Mike Pence in charge of our defense Against this quickly spreading worldwide threat To public health—perhaps the worst threat yet.
Mar 17, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Bernie’s Sweater Bernie’s Sweater
Knitting progress. “Bernie 2020” “Health care is a human right.” “Medicare for All.” “While the rest can’t fathom why Bernie cares if we live or die.”
Mar 17, 2020 / OppArt / Karen Schumacher
The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility
Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.
Mar 17, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rick Perlstein
The 2020 Election in the Time of Pandemic The 2020 Election in the Time of Pandemic
Moderates and Trump are working together to make sure we all die? That’s unity!
Mar 13, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
Between Yourself and This Bygone Place Between Yourself and This Bygone Place
On Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake, Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, and other recent films.
Mar 13, 2020 / Stuart Klawans