-
January 31, 2023
Bullying Librarians Is for Know-Nothings
Why the GOP’s war on books is ripe for cancellation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
-
January 17, 2023
Republicans Are Cooking Up Their Dumbest Controversy Yet
In its latest distraction-mongering tantrum, the right is up in arms over how to heat a stove.
Chris Lehmann
-
January 2, 2023
Giorgia Meloni’s Bootstrap Ideology
The new Italian government’s culture war looks less like populism of the right and more like the same old blaming of capitalism’s victims.
David Broder
-
December 12, 2022
How Food Became a Weapon in the Right’s Culture Wars
First came the politics of right-wing grievance. Then came the new foodie culture. Together, they combined to create one toxic food fight.
Brent Cunningham
-
December 9, 2022
Democrats Dodged a Bullet in the Midterms, but the Culture War Is Far From Won
A functioning democracy requires the consent, if not the votes, of a good deal more than half the country.
David Bromwich
-
GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!
-
October 20, 2022
Civil War Isn’t on the Horizon—the Original Battle Never Ended
Those in the media sounding the alarm about civil unrest are right to be worried, but popular explorations of the term “civil war” don’t go far enough.
Steve Phillips
-
October 18, 2022
Trump Toadies Control the Republican Party
The Republican Party’s official agenda is a capitulation to extremists and a display of distortion and aggression.
Chris Lehmann
-
October 13, 2022
Banning Books Is a Threat to Public Education
To say nothing of the fact that we don’t value reading enough in the first place!
Katha Pollitt
-
September 20, 2022
Letters From the October 3/10, 2022, Issue
One-state reality… Documenting January 6… Leaving water for migrants…
Our Readers
-
December 23, 2021
The Black Core of the Culture War
Something happened to Black discourse on the way to the backlash—and that’s no joke.
Joshua Adams