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Puny Fact Checkers Are No Match for the Incredible Trump Puny Fact Checkers Are No Match for the Incredible Trump

And other lessons from Primary Pandemonium.

May 10, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

Beyoncé

Beyoncé With the Good Art Beyoncé With the Good Art

Is it possible that the most hyped pop performer of our era could also be avant-garde?

May 9, 2016 / Erin Vanderhoof

Revolutionary Mothering

How to Understand Mother as a Verb This Mother’s Day and Always How to Understand Mother as a Verb This Mother’s Day and Always

A new book reminds us that mothers are voices from the front lines that we all need to hear.

May 7, 2016 / Dani McClain

If Donald Trump Were a Woman and If Hillary Clinton Were a Man

If Donald Trump Were a Woman and If Hillary Clinton Were a Man If Donald Trump Were a Woman and If Hillary Clinton Were a Man

Here’s what the election would look like.

May 6, 2016 / Rebecca Solnit

Purple Rain

A Violent Room A Violent Room

Why did the movie Purple Rain want or perhaps need to produce and reprise a particular fantasy of interraciality?

May 6, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

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Letters From the May 23-30, 2016, Issue Letters From the May 23-30, 2016, Issue

Childbearing vs. child-rearing… Lost in translation?…

May 5, 2016 / Our Readers, Madeline Ostrander, and Cynthia Haven

Puzzle No. 3398

Puzzle No. 3398 Puzzle No. 3398

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 I am always on time, ahead of you when texting, and spontaneous (9)  6 Scoundrel and French military trainee (5)  9…

May 5, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

‘Goethe Dies’: A Brief and Headlong Book

‘Goethe Dies’: A Brief and Headlong Book ‘Goethe Dies’: A Brief and Headlong Book

Thomas Bernhard makes intricate fiction from the grit and putty of life.

May 5, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier

Home

Home Home

When you enter the room You destroy the room, the room You waited so long to enter— No: “to get into,” to be allowed To enter and so on. A nod To Kafka, existentialism, theories Of…

May 5, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Laura Mullen

The Roots of American Conservatism

The Roots of American Conservatism The Roots of American Conservatism

Why do the politics of free markets and cultural reaction keep returning like some Republican Freddy Krueger?

May 4, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

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