Culture

The Long Road to ‘Citizens United’

The Long Road to ‘Citizens United’ The Long Road to ‘Citizens United’

Adam Winkler's new history argues that the problem with Citizens United is its inability to see the distorting effects of concentrated wealth.

Jun 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Cole

Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated

Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated Under the Influence: Michael Pollan and Leslie Jamison, Sober and Intoxicated

Taking drugs and recovering are not always as incompatible as they seem.

Jun 5, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

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The Unbelievable Trump: Smashing Daily Briefings The Unbelievable Trump: Smashing Daily Briefings

It hard job, being president.

Jun 5, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Away With Monsieur Periné

Away With Monsieur Periné Away With Monsieur Periné

The Colombian band delicately balances their idiosyncratic swing sound with elements of Latin pop music.

Jun 1, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez

Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe

Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe

He was blithely unaware of how his journalistic cutting edge sliced one family into ribbons—mine.

Jun 1, 2018 / Feature / Jamie Bernstein

Adapting Ibsen for Our Times

Adapting Ibsen for Our Times Adapting Ibsen for Our Times

Along with opportunity, recent revivals of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play An Enemy of the People bring much risk.

May 30, 2018 / Alisa Solomon

Roseanne Barr 2015 Tribeca Film Festival

Roseanne Tried to Use ‘Roseanne’ to Prove that Trump Voters Aren’t Racist. There Was Just 1 Problem. Roseanne Tried to Use ‘Roseanne’ to Prove that Trump Voters Aren’t Racist. There Was Just 1 Problem.

The media want to depict Trump supporters sympathetically, but the actual beliefs of many of them make that impossible.

May 30, 2018 / Ed Burmila

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Nazis? Or Just Really Big Racists? Nazis? Or Just Really Big Racists?

Trump supporters can’t handle the name-calling.

May 29, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Statue of Liberty

The Problems of Liberalism: A Q&A With Patrick Deneen The Problems of Liberalism: A Q&A With Patrick Deneen

An effort to determine whether common ground can, or should, be found between factions of the left and right against liberalism.

May 28, 2018 / Q&A / Joseph Hogan

Top 10 Memorial Day Songs

Top 10 Memorial Day Songs Top 10 Memorial Day Songs

Songs about war and attendant suffering cut across musical genres.

May 26, 2018 / Peter Rothberg

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