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A DIY Cartoon for Your Post-Election Spiral A DIY Cartoon for Your Post-Election Spiral

Now, it’s just a waiting game. 

Nov 3, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow

Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson

Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson

Why his reformist retelling of the Chicago Seven fails to tell the real story of the leftists on trial.

Nov 3, 2020 / Charlotte Rosen

Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now

Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now

Costa Gavras’s classic antifascist thriller reminds us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning.

Nov 3, 2020 / Margaret Spillane

Before All of This

Before All of This Before All of This

And as usual, early summer seems already to hold, inside it, the split fruit of late fall, those afternoons we’ll soon enough lie down in, their diminished colors, the part no one…

Nov 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips

74,000 Acres of Forest Burning

74,000 Acres of Forest Burning 74,000 Acres of Forest Burning

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Nov 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Bass

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Letters From the November 16/23, 2020, Issue Letters From the November 16/23, 2020, Issue

L'union fait la force… A familiar playbook… The fine print… Please don’t go!

Nov 3, 2020 / Our Readers

Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life

Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life

The Up series was meant to investigate inequities of British class. It also ended up telling a different story as well.

Nov 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Susan Pedersen

Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller

Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller Hari Kunzru’s Internet Thriller

Hari Kunzru’s ambitious new novel Red Pill plumbs the depth of right-wing and liberal ideas as it tracks one man’s descent into a web-induced mania. 

Nov 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Lozano

The Great Pumpkin

The Great Pumpkin The Great Pumpkin

Scary orange thing.

Oct 31, 2020 / OppArt / Sylvia Hernández, Felix Sockwell, and Edel Rodriguez

Abbie Hoffman

Why I Hope Trump Does Not Watch ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Why I Hope Trump Does Not Watch ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’

We don’t need the president to get any more ideas in his addled mind about how to punish American cities and activists.

Oct 30, 2020 / Jon Wiener

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