Culture

Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos

Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos

Public intervention. Phone booth, Rivington and Allen Streets, NYC 2020.

Oct 27, 2020 / OppArt / Maia Lorian

A Soundscape of Pure Empathy

A Soundscape of Pure Empathy A Soundscape of Pure Empathy

Kelly Lee Owens’s quietly complex electronic music is defined by its spirit of care.

Oct 27, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Welcome to the Trump Tower of Terror Welcome to the Trump Tower of Terror

Be very afraid.

Oct 27, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow

Vote for What You Believe In

Vote for What You Believe In Vote for What You Believe In

Words of optimism.

Oct 26, 2020 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

‘PEN15’ Is So Good It Hurts

‘PEN15’ Is So Good It Hurts ‘PEN15’ Is So Good It Hurts

How the Hulu show reinvents the coming-of-age story.

Oct 26, 2020 / Quinn Moreland

Checking the Systems That Hold Us Back

Checking the Systems That Hold Us Back Checking the Systems That Hold Us Back

On The Nation’s new podcast, System Check, hosts Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren set about diagnosing and repairing our malfunctioning democracy.

Oct 26, 2020 / Q&A / Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian T. Warren

Cancel Culture

Cancel Culture Cancel Culture

The first 500 years.

Oct 22, 2020 / OppArt / Matt Wuerker

What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation

What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation

Its fall once represented the enduring spirit of American freedom. A new documentary shows how that myth is being undone.

Oct 22, 2020 / Sophia Steinert-Evoy

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

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