America Needs a New Free Speech Movement America Needs a New Free Speech Movement
Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.
Mar 19, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout
Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy Trump Took Over the Kennedy Center, but Silencing the Arts Will Not Be So Easy
Our last best hope for sharing, shaping, and wrangling over independent ideas may turn out to be America’s scrappy and disparate arts spaces—if they can hang on financially.
Mar 18, 2025 / Alisa Solomon
How the American Left Became Conservative How the American Left Became Conservative
Against the radical, if reactionary, experiment run from the White House, everyone from Democratic leaders in Congress to MSNBC hosts have turned to the defense of institutions.
Mar 18, 2025 / Michael Kazin
The Workplace Nightmares of “Severance” The Workplace Nightmares of “Severance”
The appeal of the Apple TV+ series is how it dramatizes our alienation from labor.
Mar 18, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte
How Atlanta Became a Walkable City How Atlanta Became a Walkable City
The Beltline and Georgia's experiment in pedestrian spaces.
Mar 17, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Karrie Jacobs
Making Enemies With the World Making Enemies With the World
Trump’s anti-immigrant position is devastating lives.
Mar 12, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
Parts of LA Are Not Going to Be Habitable Parts of LA Are Not Going to Be Habitable
Insurers have figured out that risk is too high in parts of California. We need to re-conceive how people are housed, and fast.
Mar 12, 2025 / Column / Kate Wagner
Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza? Will Scholars Take a Stand Against Scholasticide in Gaza?
The fight inside the historical profession heats up.
Mar 6, 2025 / Van Gosse
Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game Yto Barrada’s Rules of the Game
The artist’s installation at MOMA PS1 is not just a public work of art in the form of a playground but also a comment on postcolonial architecture and experimental pedagogy.
Mar 6, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Will Fenstermaker