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A Queer Love Story That Does Away With the Male Gaze

A Queer Love Story That Does Away With the Male Gaze A Queer Love Story That Does Away With the Male Gaze

Set in 18th-century France, Céline Sciamma’s new film Portrait of a Lady on Fire finds a new way to chronicle a queer romance.

Dec 5, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’

Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’

The online magazine of the “intellectual dark web” is repackaging discredited race science.

Dec 5, 2019 / Donna Minkowitz

US soldier in Afghanistan

US Soldiers Are Carrying the Hidden Trauma of Our Endless Wars US Soldiers Are Carrying the Hidden Trauma of Our Endless Wars

Mental health specialists have long recognized the deep emotional trauma of war. When will the US military?

Dec 5, 2019 / Arnold Isaacs

Trump’s Cover-Up Is Fully and Necessarily Impeachable

Trump’s Cover-Up Is Fully and Necessarily Impeachable Trump’s Cover-Up Is Fully and Necessarily Impeachable

Constitutional scholars tell the House Judiciary Committee that obstructing the impeachment inquiry is totally impeachable.

Dec 4, 2019 / John Nichols

Secular Assault

Secular Assault Secular Assault

Godless heathens united.

Dec 4, 2019 / OppArt / Jen Sorensen

USS Ronald Reagan

Want to Stop Climate Change? Start With the US Military Want to Stop Climate Change? Start With the US Military

Our endless wars are taking countless innocent lives and destroying the planet itself.

Dec 4, 2019 / William Astore

If Debate Skills Mattered, Kamala Harris Wouldn’t Be the One Dropping Out

If Debate Skills Mattered, Kamala Harris Wouldn’t Be the One Dropping Out If Debate Skills Mattered, Kamala Harris Wouldn’t Be the One Dropping Out

The California senator suspends her presidential campaign, as Bloomberg buys his way in.

Dec 4, 2019 / John Nichols

‘I Hotel’ Is the Unheralded Document of a Decade of Asian American Activism

‘I Hotel’ Is the Unheralded Document of a Decade of Asian American Activism ‘I Hotel’ Is the Unheralded Document of a Decade of Asian American Activism

Karen Tei Yamashita’s recently republished epic novel is a reminder of fiction’s ability to both transmit and embody transformational ideas.

Dec 4, 2019 / Lucas Iberico Lozada

What if Democrats Have Already Won Back Enough White Working-Class Voters to Win in 2020?

What if Democrats Have Already Won Back Enough White Working-Class Voters to Win in 2020? What if Democrats Have Already Won Back Enough White Working-Class Voters to Win in 2020?

Since the 1980s, Democratic candidates have proven that they can win elections while losing whites without a college degree by a significant margin.

Dec 4, 2019 / Joshua Holland

Nate McMurray Wants To Un-Trump Upstate New York

Nate McMurray Wants To Un-Trump Upstate New York Nate McMurray Wants To Un-Trump Upstate New York

With Chris Collins out of office on insider trading charges, Democrats are hoping to turn one of America’s reddest districts blue in an upcoming special election.  

Dec 4, 2019 / Raina Lipsitz

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