Culture

Trump

Foreign-Policy Decision Making Foreign-Policy Decision Making

Conflicting views are heard. The mood is tense. Around the president advisers cluster. But at the end he sticks to his approach— His formula of ignorance plus bluster.

Jul 2, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin

After All

After All After All

Even when the garlic crop is good, something else is always dying— the peas withering in the afternoon we hoped for rain instead of watering, the tomatoes over-shaded. It should te…

Jul 2, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Anna V.Q. Ross

felo-de-se—Melissa

felo-de-se—Melissa felo-de-se—Melissa

physicists say we change an object simply by turning our attention to it—really I am a grandson only when we are eating at Panera—one of us is lying always about her particular hu…

Jul 2, 2019 / Books & the Arts / TC Tolbert

The Use and Abuse of International Law in the Occupied Territories

The Use and Abuse of International Law in the Occupied Territories The Use and Abuse of International Law in the Occupied Territories

Noura Erakat’s new book examines the legal arguments used to justify Israel's occupation—and the legal arguments that might have been used to counter it.

Jul 1, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh

Plato

The Philosophical Origins of Patriarchy The Philosophical Origins of Patriarchy

Plato, Hippocrates, and Aristotle laid the foundations on which centuries of sexism were built.

Jul 1, 2019 / Christia Mercer

Stonewall Inn interior

It Doesn’t Matter Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall It Doesn’t Matter Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall

Infighting over ownership of the riots obscures their significance as a messy, spontaneous, diverse rebellion.

Jun 30, 2019 / Morgan M. Page

Bella Hadid and Lil Miquela

Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z

Meet Brud, the secretive tech start-up here to outfit corporations with fashionable social causes—through elaborate CGI fiction.

Jun 28, 2019 / Emmeline Clein

In Honor of the People Who Have Bled for Our Desire

In Honor of the People Who Have Bled for Our Desire In Honor of the People Who Have Bled for Our Desire

On Stonewall at 50.

Jun 28, 2019 / Diana Oh

Puzzle No. 3503

Puzzle No. 3503 Puzzle No. 3503

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Viciously beat staff, incorporating a way to learn: It’s good for you, supposedly (4-8)  9 Failing dandy invested i…

Jun 27, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Marsha P Johnson

What We All Owe to Gay Liberation What We All Owe to Gay Liberation

Stonewall shows us what fighting back looked like in an era when state power was hostile.

Jun 27, 2019 / Emily Douglas and The Nation

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