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Donald Glover’s Show About Nothing

Donald Glover’s Show About Nothing Donald Glover’s Show About Nothing

Atlanta’s surreal comedy and steady stream of reality checks.

Nov 2, 2016 / K. Leander Williams

coal fired power plant

With the Supreme Court at Stake, This Election Could Determine the Future of Our Environment With the Supreme Court at Stake, This Election Could Determine the Future of Our Environment

Trump thinks climate change is a “hoax”—don’t expect any better from his Supreme Court nominees

Nov 2, 2016 / Tom Steyer and Michael Keegan

Nixon and Kissinger

How ‘The New York Times’ Whitewashed the 1968 ‘October Surprise’—and Why It Still Matters How ‘The New York Times’ Whitewashed the 1968 ‘October Surprise’—and Why It Still Matters

Ever since Nixon and Kissinger undermined the Vietnam peace talks to win that election, politicians have used militarism abroad to defeat domestic opponents.

Nov 2, 2016 / Greg Grandin

The Essential Ferrante

The Essential Ferrante The Essential Ferrante

How the Italian novelist’s demand to remain anonymous reveals her true identity.

Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination

Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination

Once reveling in the hopes and possibilities of a multicultural society, her fiction now has taken on a more despairing outlook.

Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch

Bruce Springsteen

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 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 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 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 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

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