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August 14, 2023
Magazine
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
We’re All Preppy Now
How a style steeped in American elitism took over the world
August 11, 2023
Alex Shephard
Is This the Year English Soccer Faces Its Plutocratic Reckoning?
The Premier League returns for another season of footballing glory, financial excess, and existential crisis.
August 11, 2023
Daphne Merkin
Sinéad O’Connor Remained True to Herself at All Costs
From the beginning of her career to the end, she refused to cave in to the machinery of fame.
August 10, 2023
Meghan Racklin
Maeve Brennan’s Unhappy Couples and Disappointed Revolutionaries
Brennan rarely wrote of her parents’ part in the struggle for an independent Ireland, but this early experience runs through her stories of marriage and home life.
August 8, 2023
James Robins
The 1848 Revolutions Did Not Fail
The year that Europe went to the barricades changed the world. But it has not left the same impression on the public imagination as 1789 or 1917.
August 7, 2023
Alex Shephard
The Real Reason the U.S. Women’s National Team Lost
It wasn’t because they were “woke,” of course. There’s a much simpler explanation.
August 7, 2023
Tori Otten
Trump Blames Wokeness and Biden for Women’s Soccer Team World Cup Loss
That’s ... not how that works.
August 4, 2023
Jasmine Liu
Afire
Is a Comedy of Manners at the End of the World
The climate crisis arrives suddenly and overwhelmingly in Christian Petzold’s seaside drama.
August 3, 2023
Keisha N. Blain
How the Shakurs Became One of America’s Most Influential Families
In a white supremacist society, the Black family offers a buffer and, at times, a space for resistance.
August 1, 2023
Magazine
Evan Kindley
Colson Whitehead’s Ode to 1970s New York
In “Crook Manifesto,” everything is a racket—even history.
July 31, 2023
Suzanne Nossel
Hollywood’s Fight Against A.I. Will Affect Us All
Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.
July 28, 2023
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
Behind the Rage of Raylan Givens
“Justified: City Primeval” questions a lawman’s anger.
July 26, 2023
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
The Iconic Moment Sinéad O’Connor Was Banned From SNL for Calling Out the Pope
The Irish singer-songwriter has died at the age of 56, but she leaves behind a legacy of political activism.
July 26, 2023
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Vivek Ramaswamy Was Once a Libertarian Rapper
Here’s the (very embarrassing) footage.
July 26, 2023
Magazine
Jennifer Wilson
Is Steph Curry Really
Underrated
?
A spate of documentaries produced by athletes and leagues are more interested in settling scores than in the game.
July 25, 2023
Jacob Bacharach
The Historian Who Lost Her Memory of a Hijacking
At 12 years old, Martha Hodes was on board a hijacked plane and was taken hostage for a week. How did she forget much of the experience?
July 24, 2023
Tori Otten
Go Woke, Go Broke?
Barbie
’s Opening Weekend Sales Smash Expectations
This was the biggest opening weekend at the box office this year, much to conservatives’ dismay.
July 21, 2023
Tori Otten
Republicans Rush to Defend Jason Aldean for Racist Song Filmed at Lynching Site
“Try That in a Small Town” isn’t even trying to hide its toxic message—and Republicans seem to love it.
July 21, 2023
Tori Otten
Barbie
Breaks Box Office Records as Conservatives Keep Whining About It
Conservatives are complaining that the movie is Communist and “anti-man.” But the people want to see it.
July 21, 2023
David Klion
Oppenheimer
Is an Uncomfortably Timely Tale of Destruction
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster captures the scientific triumphs and monstrous sins of the Manhattan Project.
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