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Pay the Fine

Pay the Fine Pay the Fine

Hit and run.

May 9, 2023 / OppArt / Lalo Alcaraz

Artist and musician Raymond Essayan plays a piano he sculpted from the rubble of a destroyed building

What Gives You Hope Keeps You Fighting What Gives You Hope Keeps You Fighting

Art does what the field of international relations cannot—it gives purpose to struggle and reminds us what it means to be human.

May 9, 2023 / Nanjala Nyabola

Chuck Klosterman, illustration by Diane Zhou

Chuck Klosterman’s Decade of Ambivalence Chuck Klosterman’s Decade of Ambivalence

In The Nineties, he confronts an era that defined his career as a critic and waxes nostalgic for a mythic, pre-polarization America. 

May 9, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Gordon

Then-FCC chair Newton Minow appearing before a Senate subcommittee in 1961

Newton Minow Sought to Lead Us Out of the Vast Wasteland Newton Minow Sought to Lead Us Out of the Vast Wasteland

The Kennedy-era FCC chair who inspired reformers to demand media that served the public interest has died at age 97.

May 9, 2023 / John Nichols

The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery

The Arlington National Cemetery Will Finally Remove Its Racist Monument The Arlington National Cemetery Will Finally Remove Its Racist Monument

But that hasn't stopped some Confederate Memorial supporters from filing a lawsuit to #DefendArlington.

May 9, 2023 / Erin L. Thompson

You Don’t Need a Script to Speak to Your Child

You Don’t Need a Script to Speak to Your Child You Don’t Need a Script to Speak to Your Child

"Gentle parenting" aims to protect children from harm, but in whittling acceptable language down to a handful of phrases, the movement not only distrusts parents, but also disallow...

May 9, 2023 / Kate Shannon Jenkins

A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning fighter jet is shown at the Singapore Airshow in 2014

The Military Industrial Complex Is More Powerful Than Ever The Military Industrial Complex Is More Powerful Than Ever

The current war machine isn’t your grandfather’s MIC, not by a country mile.

May 9, 2023 / William D. Hartung and Benjamin Freeman

Ron DeSantis’s Anti-Trans Agenda Exiles Dwyane Wade, NBA Superstar and Loving Father

Ron DeSantis’s Anti-Trans Agenda Exiles Dwyane Wade, NBA Superstar and Loving Father Ron DeSantis’s Anti-Trans Agenda Exiles Dwyane Wade, NBA Superstar and Loving Father

The Wade family, which includes their trans daughter, is fleeing Florida for their safety.

May 8, 2023 / Dave Zirin

Jeffrey Epstein is photographed wearing a Harvard sweatshirt.

Jeffrey Epstein, Harvard Man Jeffrey Epstein, Harvard Man

Why a horrific criminal found elite universities so congenial.

May 8, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Lauren Boebert Spitting Bullets

Lauren Boebert Spitting Bullets Lauren Boebert Spitting Bullets

Promoting guns in the face of weekly mass shootings.

May 8, 2023 / OppArt / Robbie Conal

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