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January 25, 2023
The Anxious Influences of Netflix’s “White Noise”
What has Noah Baumbach wrought in his adaptation of the 1985 postmodern novel?
Vikram Murthi
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December 12, 2022
The Rise and Fall of the Mall
Alexandra Lange’s Meet Me by the Fountain recovers the forgotten past and the still hopeful future of the American shopping mall.
Melvin Backman
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November 4, 2022
Black Friday: A Good Day to “Make Amazon Pay”
And “peak season” is the right time for coordinated actions.
Rand Wilson and Peter Olney
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August 25, 2022
Searching for Local Identity in “The Bear” and “Chicago Party Aunt”
The FX drama and Netflix animation both attempt to embody the city of Chicago. That’s an increasingly difficult task when the city itself is a jumbled simulacrum of its own past.
Ryan Zickgraf
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December 23, 2021
This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet
The US economy depends on consumers consuming and the earth depends on us not consuming. Which are we going to choose?
Frida Berrigan
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December 22, 2020
Here’s the Progressive Biden Should Pick to Run America’s Consumer Watchdog
President-elect Joe Biden should start rebuilding the CFPB—and thereby gain a powerful weapon in the fight against this economic downturn.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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May 21, 2020
You Can’t Mask Stupid
The very people howling the loudest about reopening—and running around maskless—are the ones making it too dangerous to reopen.
Elie Mystal
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May 12, 2020
The Ingenuity Keeping Indie Bookstores Going
Amazon and the pandemic have left indie bookstores in a bind. They’re reinventing from the inside out.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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June 28, 2019
Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z
Meet Brud, the secretive tech start-up here to outfit corporations with fashionable social causes—through elaborate CGI fiction.
Emmeline Clein
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November 9, 2017
Don’t Let AT&T Exploit Your Distrust of Trump
He may hate CNN, but there’s good reasons for a sell-off.
David Dayen