Culture

Jerry Lewis holding a microphone

The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity

Why former telethon participants are protesting the return of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s most famous fundraising effort.

Oct 22, 2020 / Sara Luterman

The defendants in the Chicago trial all sit around microphones with reporters crowded around them.

Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7

The centrist filmmaker captures the drama of the 1960s, but tries too hard to make radicals palatable to contemporary liberals.

Oct 21, 2020 / Jeet Heer

A Dilemma of Intimacy

A Dilemma of Intimacy A Dilemma of Intimacy

An Asian American writer grapples with interracial love in a time of disaster.

Oct 21, 2020 / Anne Anlin Cheng

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

It’s Not Trump’s Job to Be Informed, Is It? It’s Not Trump’s Job to Be Informed, Is It?

Welcome to the longest two weeks in human history. 

Oct 20, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow

Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums

Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums Fraudulent Indigenous Art Is Flooding Museums

After untold exploitation and erasure, Native artwork is being undermined by fraud.

Oct 20, 2020 / Chris O’Connell, Savannah Maher, and The Texas Observer

How Did We Get Here?

How Did We Get Here? How Did We Get Here?

Three new books by prominent liberal intellectuals—Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Let Them Eat Tweets, Robert B. Reich’s The System, and Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles’s ...

Oct 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Lemann

How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?

How Did American Cities Become So Unequal? How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?

A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.

Oct 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Sinking Presidency

Sinking Presidency Sinking Presidency

The candidate’s yard sign?

Oct 17, 2020 / OppArt / Leonard Stokes

Oops

Oops Oops

Trying to get ahead.

Oct 16, 2020 / OppArt / Rob Rogers

Tree of Knowledge

Tree of Knowledge Tree of Knowledge

Encouraging people to vote.

Oct 15, 2020 / OppArt / Hooked Hands

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