Rupert Murdoch’s 3 Most Egregiously Ignorant Claims About Climate Change Rupert Murdoch’s 3 Most Egregiously Ignorant Claims About Climate Change
“We should approach climate change with great skepticism,” says the king of the climate denial media machine.
Jul 14, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Art & the State in South Africa Art & the State in South Africa
For Nadine Gordimer in 1983, the arts in South Africa were simply “the sum of various states of alienation.”
Jul 14, 2014 / Nadine Gordimer
In Politics and Art, ‘Stories Are Dangerous’ In Politics and Art, ‘Stories Are Dangerous’
In fact, says theater director Anne Bogart, stories can be “fascistic.”
Jul 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Savan
The Preordained: Why LeBron James Was Always Coming Back to Cleveland The Preordained: Why LeBron James Was Always Coming Back to Cleveland
I predicted last year that LeBron James would return to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Here is why.
Jul 12, 2014 / Dave Zirin
Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James Sherwood Anderson Has Some Notes on Ohio to Share with LeBron James
“Have you a city that smells worse than Akron?”
Jul 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kreitner
It’s Time for a New Multiracial, Cross-Class Movement It’s Time for a New Multiracial, Cross-Class Movement
African-Americans and white people struggled together during the civil rights era. We need that once again.
Jul 10, 2014 / Author
Spied On for Being Muslim Spied On for Being Muslim
A new investigation by The Intercept reveals how racist anti-Muslim neocons are driving the nation’s law enforcement agenda.
Jul 10, 2014 / Moustafa Bayoumi
The GOP’s Completely Incoherent Stance on the Border Crisis The GOP’s Completely Incoherent Stance on the Border Crisis
Now that Obama has asked for nearly $4 billion to help kick the kids out more quickly, Republicans don’t want to pony up the money.
Jul 10, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter
Transgender Violence Is a #YesAllWomen Issue Transgender Violence Is a #YesAllWomen Issue
By failing to connect the plight of trans women to the struggles of all women, feminists overlook the same culture of male entitlement they seek to combat.
Jul 10, 2014 / Meredith Talusan
The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932 The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932
Margaret Sanger and Charlotte Perkins Gilman and John Dewey, oh my!
Jul 10, 2014 / Richard Kreitner