Norman Lear: Donald Trump Is the Middle Finger of the American Right Hand Norman Lear: Donald Trump Is the Middle Finger of the American Right Hand
What distinguishes All in the Family, which had 60 million viewers during the 1970s, from political satire today?
Jun 8, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Getting the Last Word Getting the Last Word
MSNBC has renewed Lawrence O’Donnell’s contract, and, for now, the network’s increasingly conservative tilt is on hold.
Jun 3, 2017 / Leslie Savan
Letters From the June 19-26, 2017, Issue Letters From the June 19-26, 2017, Issue
McCarthyism: past or present?… Implausible deniability… Lessons from Carrier… An admiring bog… Electing the future (web-only)…
Jun 1, 2017 / Our Readers
Puzzle No. 3434 Puzzle No. 3434
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 7 It ends the discussion with 27 incorrectly (4,4) 9 Heavenly body is the butt of fifth graders’ jokes (6) 10 Actors…
Jun 1, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
CVS on Fire CVS on Fire
The CVS on fire on Fox News and the Fox News truck on fire on Fox News and the quick brown fox of the flames jumping out of the frame are one. And the night advancing behind its ri…
Jun 1, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Michael Robbins
Incremental and Slow In Coming Incremental and Slow In Coming
What needs to be said but shouldn’t be noteworthy: All three honorees for the Pulitzer Prize in Music were women.
May 31, 2017 / David Hajdu
Owning Time at the Venice Biennale Owning Time at the Venice Biennale
If only for an hour, the Zimbabwean artist Admire Kamudzengerere sought to exert control over an audience culled from the wealthy, sophisticated, international art-world elite...
May 26, 2017 / Alina Cohen
Puzzle No. 3433 Puzzle No. 3433
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Jokester in Alabama is a religious figure (8) 5 One visited a writer, mid-morning, after all-night party (5) 9 Ho…
May 18, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Mysticism of Louis Kahn The Mysticism of Louis Kahn
After walking through the buildings he designed, it is impossible to imagine a world without them.
May 18, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Paul Goldberger
Doesn’t Every Political Resistance Need a Soundtrack? Doesn’t Every Political Resistance Need a Soundtrack?
In their efforts to protest Trump’s ascension as soon as possible, more than one artist has recast an existing song with lyrics applicable to the current crisis.
May 16, 2017 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu