A Plea to Bruce Springsteen: Do a Show for Hillary Clinton! A Plea to Bruce Springsteen: Do a Show for Hillary Clinton!
You’ve campaigned in the last three presidential elections. Please don’t leave our first female nominee in the arena alone.
Nov 2, 2016 / Joan Walsh
Cosmopolitan Pop Cosmopolitan Pop
DJ /rupture and MIA capture the new global spirit of pop music.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Domino Effect Domino Effect
For an erection lasting more than four hours tell him you don’t agree with him. The most desirable of her pots authored a vast intelligence. Don’t make me sick of this, followed ev…
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Ashbery
Freud’s Discontents Freud’s Discontents
Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
The Overhead The Overhead
For two decades we kept Mum in the attic. Finally, one hubba hubba day in spring we let her out to walk in the park. She was never seen again. The police refused to inspect the par…
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Ashbery
The Imperative of De-Demonizing Vladimir Putin The Imperative of De-Demonizing Vladimir Putin
The personal vilification of Russia’s president is propelling the new Cold War toward hot war, poisoning American politics, and degrading US media.
Nov 2, 2016 / Stephen F. Cohen
Donald Trump Has a Millennial Problem, and It Could Reshape American Politics Donald Trump Has a Millennial Problem, and It Could Reshape American Politics
A generation that’s coming of age during this ugly election is rejecting Trumpism in a big way.
Nov 2, 2016 / Joshua Holland
Baby Hamlet Baby Hamlet
Ian McEwan’s latest novel returns to a recurring theme—the breakup of the modern family.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Biggs
Haiti’s Jacobin Haiti’s Jacobin
A new biography explores the mysterious life and times of Toussaint Louverture.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
The Bundy Acquittal Is Dangerous The Bundy Acquittal Is Dangerous
But the courtroom isn’t the only place to challenge the rise of anti-government radicals.
Nov 1, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter