Culture

Naming America’s Own Genocide

Naming America’s Own Genocide Naming America’s Own Genocide

In a commanding new book, Benjamin Madley calls California’s 19th-century elected officials “the primary architects of annihilation” against Native Americans in the state. Reading ...

Aug 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Richard White

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Introducing the Donald Trump Comedy Hour Introducing the Donald Trump Comedy Hour

TV’s newest comedian is famous for not holding back.

Aug 16, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

5 Signs That You’re Paying Too Much Attention to the Election

5 Signs That You’re Paying Too Much Attention to the Election 5 Signs That You’re Paying Too Much Attention to the Election

Step away from the Internet.

Aug 12, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan

Yaa Gyasi

Leaving Home to Go Home Leaving Home to Go Home

Yaa Gyasi’s ideas about fiction are suffused with her lifelong attention to the fluctuating shadows that race casts on American life.

Aug 12, 2016 / Erin Vanderhoof

Puzzle No. 3405

Puzzle No. 3405 Puzzle No. 3405

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Lose weight ahead of surprisingly sturdy business opportunity (6,8) 10 “Flipper Returns”: story is comparatively co…

Aug 11, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

The Best Defense Against Donald Trump

The Best Defense Against Donald Trump The Best Defense Against Donald Trump

Well, that backfired.

Aug 11, 2016 / Steve Brodner

The Gadfly and the Spider

The Gadfly and the Spider The Gadfly and the Spider

Justin E.H. Smith wants to convince academic philosophers that it’s a problem to define philosophy narrowly as a Western endeavor.

Aug 10, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Nausicaa Renner

Before the 1 Percenters, There Were the Uzedas

Before the 1 Percenters, There Were the Uzedas Before the 1 Percenters, There Were the Uzedas

In The Viceroys, Frederico De Roberto’s novel of the Risorgimento, the Uzeda family corrupts everything it touches.

Aug 10, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Frederika Randall

Brand Yeezy

Brand Yeezy Brand Yeezy

To what extent can Kanye West continue to foreground the commercial components that make his art possible before we no longer consider him an artist at all?

Aug 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Angela Flournoy

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

Finally, Millennials Are Proving Themselves Useful Finally, Millennials Are Proving Themselves Useful

And totally not in a creepy way.

Aug 9, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

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