Eat, Pray, Cringe Eat, Pray, Cringe
Elizabeth Gilbert’s next novel faced outcry for its setting in Russia. So, before she could get canceled, she canceled herself.
Jun 14, 2023 / Katha Pollitt
Hope Is a Ghost Island: Guam After Typhoon Mawar Hope Is a Ghost Island: Guam After Typhoon Mawar
Three weeks ago, Mawar tore through the island of Guam, but her people are not waiting to be saved.
Jun 14, 2023 / Julian Aguon
Currency: Women on Coins Currency: Women on Coins
The American Women Quarters Program features pioneering women, including: Maya Angelou (writer/activist), Bessie Coleman (the first African American and first Native American woma...
Jun 14, 2023 / OppArt / Denise Deleray
Fordism Comes to the Gallery—and AI Comes for the Artists Fordism Comes to the Gallery—and AI Comes for the Artists
Though hyped in the media as the latest thing, the images generated by AI art are actually old, trapping the viewer in a time loop of kitsch.
Jun 14, 2023 / Dwayne Monroe
The US Versus China The US Versus China
Continued failures to resolve fundamental differences over Taiwan could lead to war.
Jun 14, 2023 / Michael T. Klare
War Causes Pain at Home, Not Just Abroad War Causes Pain at Home, Not Just Abroad
In the US, so many of us do feel the painful results of our disastrous distant wars of this century, whether we know it or not.
Jun 14, 2023 / Andrea Mazzarino
The Swiss Village That Made Kropotkin an Anarchist The Swiss Village That Made Kropotkin an Anarchist
Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest may be the most orderly movie about anarchists ever made.
Jun 14, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Arraigned in Miami, Trump Is in Real Trouble Arraigned in Miami, Trump Is in Real Trouble
If convicted on any of these charges, Trump will almost certainly go to prison, perhaps for the rest of his life.
Jun 13, 2023 / Joan Walsh
Lindsey Graham Is No Reasonable Republican Lindsey Graham Is No Reasonable Republican
The South Carolina senator has squandered what remained of his flimsy reputation as a moderate with his fealty to Donald Trump—even as the former president faces federal charges.
Jun 13, 2023 / Chris Lehmann