Culture

Joan Jonas’s Fragments

Joan Jonas’s Fragments Joan Jonas’s Fragments

More than anything else, time itself is the material Jonas works with, manipulating it as a sculptor might mold clay.

Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump

How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump How Martin Luther Paved the Way for Donald Trump

To understand why evangelicals support the president, look to the first Protestant.

Apr 19, 2018 / Feature / Michael Massing

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?

Apr 18, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Steven Hahn

Teachers Are Leading the Working-Class Insurgency

Teachers Are Leading the Working-Class Insurgency Teachers Are Leading the Working-Class Insurgency

And it’s not the first time.

Apr 17, 2018 / Steve Fraser

Student Gun Protest

How to Be a Pacifist in a Gun-Loving Country How to Be a Pacifist in a Gun-Loving Country

True security lies not in arming ourselves against other people, but in connecting with them.

Apr 16, 2018 / Frida Berrigan

Harry Mathews’s Framed Stories

Harry Mathews’s Framed Stories Harry Mathews’s Framed Stories

Multiple meanings always simmer under the surface of his writing, but in The Solitary Twin, they’re more hidden.

Apr 16, 2018 / Alina Cohen

Blue Scientology building LA

The Power of the Word The Power of the Word

Scientology’s unique manipulations of language seduced the novelist Sands Hall and kept her bound to the church.

Apr 12, 2018 / Michael Friedrich

Denver Post

Lose Newspapers and You Lose Your Democracy Lose Newspapers and You Lose Your Democracy

Without independent journalism, Trump and other charlatans will thrive.

Apr 11, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Diehard Gun Nut Definitely Has the Answer to Gun Debate Diehard Gun Nut Definitely Has the Answer to Gun Debate

How could guns be responsible for gun violence?

Apr 10, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow

Bellicose Bolton

Bellicose Bolton Bellicose Bolton

Springtime for Bolton.

Apr 6, 2018 / OppArt / Don Hammond

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