Arts and Entertainment

Katharine Hepburn, circa 1940

June 29, 2003: Katharine Hepburn Dies June 29, 2003: Katharine Hepburn Dies

"She acquired a reputation upon the smallest of down payments and then, like the honest debtor she is, set about the unpleasant business of earning the fame she already enjoyed."

Jun 29, 2015 / Richard Kreitner

‘Orange Is the New Black’ Is Dead Wrong About Disability

‘Orange Is the New Black’ Is Dead Wrong About Disability ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Is Dead Wrong About Disability

Media portrayals that reinforce negative stereotypes about social programs and the individuals helped by them sow the seeds for damaging cuts.

Jun 24, 2015 / Rebecca Vallas

Dylann Roof

A History of Hate Rock From Johnny Rebel to Dylann Roof A History of Hate Rock From Johnny Rebel to Dylann Roof

One of the most powerful tools white power groups use to spread their ideology to young people is music.

Jun 23, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter

Rupert and James Murdoch

What the Fox Is Going On Between Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch’s Sons? What the Fox Is Going On Between Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch’s Sons?

Could shifts in Murdoch’s empire mean a kinder, gentler Fox News?

Jun 22, 2015 / Leslie Savan

Henry Wallace Nation Security Forum

New Documentary Series Calls Out the Militarization of US Society New Documentary Series Calls Out the Militarization of US Society

The theme of alternative foreign policy and national security possibilities is what animates an ambitious new project from our friends at Brave New Films.

Jun 19, 2015 / Peter Rothberg

Don Draper Meditates

Our Mad Worlds Our Mad Worlds

We feel something has ended but nothing has begun. Perfect harmony is a magical, effervescent bubble.

Jun 19, 2015 / Joshua Clover

Bruce Springsteen

Cover Me Cover Me

Today's Altercation features interesting and relatively obscure cover songs.

Jun 19, 2015 / Eric Alterman

The High Line, Manhattan

Another City Another City

A cruel economics of forced mobility is the new planning mantra of New York City.

Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin

Still image from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Strange Worlds Strange Worlds

Maybe action movies, like youth itself, are wasted on the young.

Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Outside Less Outside Less

I have been outside less, I have taken to saying, in the days since my daughter was born— passive, as though it were somebody else who bore her. And bore her, I also have taken to…

Jun 17, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Natalie Shapero

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